Another 305 of former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails have been flagged for more review by intelligence agencies according to the State Department.
In December 2014, Clinton turned in over 30,000 emails to the State Department for review when requested. A team has been reviewing the correspondence to determine if and what emails should be released and what should be redacted under laws that allow the government to withhold public documents from being released on a variety of grounds including national security, according to The Washington Post.
The State Department has been ordered by a federal judge to release a certain number of the “cleared” documents to the public on an on-going basis starting in January of next year.
On top of the team of personnel from the State Department, a group from five intelligence agencies were also added after they came across an email released in May that intelligence personnel found to be highly classified material.
The team from the intelligence community that was reviewing the emails came across 305 to send out for further review by their own agencies. Although they will not solely be allowed to conclude that the emails contain classified information, they can help in monitoring it.
The entire process of submitting and the review of the emails and soon to be possibly sensitive emails released to the public, Clinton is enduring an ongoing headache on top of challenging presidential campaign.
“What you’re seeing here is exactly what we want to see, which is the proper care and scrutiny being applied to this,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday. “It’s a healthy thing. It’s a good thing. It doesn’t mean that all 300 are going to end up at some level of upgrade. I suspect some will, and I suspect some won’t.”
Clinton’s team stated that it is the responsibility of an email’s author to handle classified material correctly, therefore, said that none of her emails would be marked as classified.