Leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said she never knowingly sent or received classified information using her private e-mail server and did not know what messages were being cited by intelligence investigators as examples of e-mails containing classified information.
Clinton spoke briefly on Saturday after reporters raised the topic during a brief news conference.
“I am confident that I never sent or received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received. What I think you are seeing here is a very typical kind of discussion, to some extent, disagreement, among various parts of the government, over what should or should not be publicly released,” she said.
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Clinton said she wanted the information in question to be made public as soon as possible.
Intelligence investigators in a letter this week told the US Department of Justice that secret government information might have been compromised in the unsecured system she used at her New York home during her tenure as US secretary of state.
Asked if the Justice Department should investigate, Clinton said: “They can fight over it or argue over it. That is up to them. I can tell you what the facts are.”
In addition to alerting the department to the potential compromise of classified information, the inspector general of the US intelligence community sent a memo to members of the US Congress indicating that “potentially hundreds of classified e-mails” were among the 30,000 that Clinton had provided to the US Department of State.
The office said it also raised that concern with FBI counterintelligence officials and was recommending changes in how the e-mails are being reviewed and processed for public release. The State Department is reviewing 55,000 pages of e-mails with the goal of releasing all of them by Wednesday.
Intelligence Inspector-General I. Charles McCullough III and his counterpart at the State Department, Steve Linick, said that McCullough’s office found four e-mails containing classified information in a limited sample of 40 e-mails.
Whether the Justice Department would investigate the potential compromise the intelligence inspector-general highlighted was not clear. The referral to the Justice Department does not seek a criminal probe and does not specifically target Clinton.
Clinton has said she used the private server at her home as a matter of convenience to limit her number of electronic devices.
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