State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com)

An anonymous reader sends this report from NBC News: The State Department on Thursday released 5,500 more pages of Hillary Clinton's emails, but fell short of meeting a court-ordered target of making 82 percent of the former secretary of state's messages public by the end of 2015. The email dump is the latest release from the private server Clinton used during her time as America's top diplomat. The State Department said it failed to meet the court's goal because of "the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule." Portions of 275 documents in the batch were upgraded to classified, though they were not classified at the time they were sent to Clinton's personal email, according to the State Department. In total, 1,274 of her emails were retroactively classified by the government before their release.

Comments

Re:State doing the CYA thing

[techno-vampire]

Who do you think classifies information?

Well, going by what I learned back when I was in the Navy, the original classification (if any) is assigned by the person creating the document. Yes, if memory serves, she could have classified it herself, but it's rather rare for somebody at her level to do so; either you trust your subordinates' judgment or you replace them because you've got too much to do every day to have time for that kind of micromanagement.

Re:Jail is for Poor People, Dear.

[Opportunist]

Please, be serious. Do you really think anyone has to take your gun away to oppress you? Do you really think that gun you have keeps you "free"?

Aww. That's adorably cute. He thinks his boom-boom stick means jack shit against the biggest army on the planet.