US intelligence officials to take part in review of Clinton e-mails

About a dozen US intelligence officials have been added to the State Department team reviewing former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton’s e-mails amid spy agency concerns that classified information may have been compromised in connection with Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server while in office. In addition to intelligence reviewers, the State Department inspector general’s office has also been given access to some 55,000 pages of Clinton e-mails being culled by the department for release in response to court orders under the Freedom of Information Act, said Douglas Welty, an inspector general spokesman.

The broadening of the review followed a recent “security referral” to the Justice Department by I. Charles McCullough III, inspector general of the intelligence community, who said that a limited survey of some of the e-mails found information that should have been classified. The inspectors general have not disputed Clinton’s insistence that none of the materials in her e-mails had been marked classified at the time she sent them. The McClatchy news service first reported the expanded review. But an initial 3,000 pages of e-mails released at the end of June contained 25 redactions made by reviewers. According to court orders, a second tranche of documents is to be released by July 31.