Second Review Says Classified Information Was in Hillary Clinton’s E-mail

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A special intelligence review of two e-mails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program — has endorsed a finding by the inspector general for the intelligence agencies that the emails contained highly classified information when Sec Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.

Clinton’s presidential campaign and the State Department disputed the inspector general’s finding and questioned whether the e-mails had been overclassified by an arbitrary process. But the special review — by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — concluded that the e-mails were “Top Secret,” the highest classification of government intelligence, when they were sent to Sec Clinton in 2009 and 2011.


Second Review Says Classified Information Was in Hillary Clinton’s E-mail