State Department Releases Last Batch of Hillary Clinton Emails

While the State Department’s releases are over, the saga over the emails is not.

“The secretary wants this review to be done thoroughly, and accurately and efficiently and he’s not going to allow himself, or the process or the department to be driven by the political calendar on this”, Kirby said.

The State Department releases its latest last batch of messages that came from the private email system Hillary Clinton used when she was Secretary of State. He noted that one email, previously classified Top Secret by the Intelligence Community Inspector General, was downgraded to Secret. The State Department has disputed that assessment, however.

The release of Mrs. Clinton’s emails, distributed in batches over several months, concludes one chapter in the continuing legal saga about records management during her tenure at the State Department between 2009 and 2013-an issue that has spawned dozens of lawsuits, an FBI investigation, an internal State Department probe, an intelligence community review and congressional oversight from a number of committees.

Reporters asked Kirby whether it is not important to conclude the probe soon so that voters can consider the information before decided who to vote for in November. “There are other agencies involved”.

According to a Reuters report carried by Yahoo News on Monday, State Department Spokesman John Kirby told reporters a few hours ahead of the release that an additional e-mail between Clinton and President Obama was being withheld in full, bringing the total of withheld e-mails between Obama and Clinton to 19. Of those, 44 were classified at the “Secret” level.

Yesterday’s conclusion of the State Department releases will not curtail the ongoing broader investigation into the server, nor will it silence Clinton’s vocal election year foes.

ABC News learned that Clinton kept her replies short in the majority of the emails.

It is time for Americans to demand that Hillary Clinton be treated as anyone else who through the course of their work has access to highly classified and sensitive information, and fails to abide by laws and regulations that govern how information is to be protected.

The other email between Clinton and President Barack Obama will be withheld form the release Monday.

Two unclassified emails were withheld in full from Monday’s release.

Kirby stressed that the North Korea exchange had only been “provisionally” upgraded in classification, suggesting the department doesn’t even fully accept the lesser finding.

The email in question was written by a senior watch officer in the department’s operations center, Shelby Smith-Wilson, and sent to Clinton’s executive staff. Although that portion was entirely redacted, one government official familiar with the contents said it described a conference call among senior officials, including Clinton, about the ballistic missile test that North Korea conducted that day in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions.

In his email to Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Blumenthal wrote he had heard that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had told the group: “When I go to the White House, I feel like I’m dealing with the junior senator from IL”.