So far, 60 Clinton emails have been flagged for containing classified data

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published 17 August 2015

As the Department of Justice continues to sort through the tens of thousands of emails Hillary Clinton sent through a private server while secretary of state, it has counted some 60 messages that include varying levels of classified information.

That figure is expected to grow as the investigation continues, and it excludes the two top-secret pieces of information identified by Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III in Clinton's communications. The process of examining Clinton's emails is expected to conclude in January, just before the first 2016 primaries.

Clinton continues to deny any wrongdoing, stating in Iowa this weekend that she never exchanged any emails "marked classified" despite the Justice Department's tally. She has framed the investigation, which is being conducted by the FBI along with the DOJ, as a partisan attack on her campaign.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.