State Department Just Made a Huge Claim About Clinton Email Scandal

Hillary Clinton received a small victory on Monday when the State Department announced that the Intelligence Community’s office of the inspector general “was not correct” in its initial assessment that an email she received in 2009 contained “Top Secret” information.

The email in question — which Clinton received on July 3, 2009 and discusses North Korea’s nuclear program — will be re-classified as “Secret,” according to State Department spokesman John Kirby.

He said it will be published on the agency’s website Monday evening, along with 3,800 new pages of Clinton’s emails. The release marks the 14th and final production of Clinton’s emails in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Vice News’ Jason Leopold.

“The document does not contain ‘Top Secret’ information,” Kirby told reporters Monday. “At the request of the Intelligence Community a limited amount of information in this document has been provisionally upgraded to ‘Secret’” . . .

The State Department and Clinton first disputed the email’s classification in July, when Intelligence Community inspector general I. Charles McCullough III informed the State Department of its assessment. (Read more from “State Department Just Made a Huge Claim About Clinton Email Scandal” HERE)

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