Hillary Clinton sent at least four emails from her personal account while she was the secretary of state that contained classified information, a government review has discovered. When the scandal surrounding her personal email account first broke, Clinton insisted that she "did not email any classified material to anyone on my email."
However, in a letter to Congress (a copy of which was obtained by The Wall Street Journal), the inspector general of the intelligence community concluded that emails containing "secret" information, the second-highest level of classification, had indeed been sent from Clinton's personal address.
The four emails in question "were classified when they were sent and are classified now," said Andrea Williams, a spokeswoman for the inspector general. The inspector general reviewed just a small sample totaling about 40 emails in Mrs. Clinton's inbox — meaning that many more in the trove of more than 30,000 may contain potentially secret or top-secret information. [The Wall Street Journal]
The inspector general has since referred the case to the counterintelligence division of the FBI. A spokesperson for Clinton did not immediately respond to the Journal's request for comment.
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