Number of Classified Clinton Emails Even Higher Than Thought
Twenty-nine emails are now permanently hidden from the public.
The chances were always high that some of the emails transmitted through Hillary Clinton’s unsecured private server posed a threat to national security. The real question – how much of a threat – was answered last week when the State Department announced that 22 of her emails were too classified to release, even if heavily redacted. But on Wednesday, Rep. Chris Stewart of the House Intelligence Committee, who has personally examined the emails, told Fox News, “The press is reporting there’s been 22 emails. There’s actually more than that.” According to the Washington Examiner, “Stewart said the State Department has classified seven additional emails as ‘top secret.’ The agency will now withhold 29 emails from the public due to their sensitive content.”
Keep in mind that the investigation is ongoing, so even that number could increase. Regardless, Stewart explained to Fox News just how delicate is the information in these emails: “I have never read anything that’s more sensitive than what these emails contain. They do reveal classified methods. They do reveal classified sources. And they do reveal human assets. I can’t imagine how anyone could be familiar with these emails, whether they’re sending them or receiving them, and not realize that these are highly classified.” Hypothetically, he added, “If I received an email saying, ‘Here’s the names and addresses of and phone numbers of ten of our undercover agents in Pakistan,’ I would know” they were classified.
Incredibly, on the same day Stewart clarified how many emails are classified, Clinton was campaigning in New Hampshire and telling her minions that cybersecurity is “one of the most important challenges the next president is going to face.” She happens to be right. Yet her actions reveal her to be both a liar and a dolt. Even if we chalk it up to clumsiness rather than gross misconduct, anyone who can’t discern such fundamentally sensitive national security implications in an email has no business dictating cybersecurity policy – or seeking to become our nation’s commander in chief.
