• Official: Some Clinton emails 'too damaging' to release

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    EXCLUSIVE: The intelligence community has deemed some of Hillary
    Clinton’s emails “too damaging" to national security to release
    under any circumstances, according to a U.S. government official
    close to the ongoing review. A second source, who was not
    authorized to speak on the record, backed up the finding.

    The determination was first reported by Fox News, hours before
    the State Department formally announced Friday that seven email
    chains, found in 22 documents, will be withheld “in full”
    because they, in fact, contain “Top Secret” information.

    The State Department, when first contacted by Fox News about
    withholding such emails Friday morning, did not dispute the
    reporting – but did not comment in detail. After a version of
    this report was first published, the Obama administration
    confirmed to the Associated Press that the seven email chains
    would be withheld. The department has since confirmed those
    details publicly.

    The decision to withhold the documents in full, and not provide
    even a partial release with redactions, further undercuts claims
    by the State Department and the Clinton campaign that none of
    the intelligence in the emails was classified when it hit
    Clinton's personal server.

    Fox News is told the emails include intelligence from "special
    access programs," or SAP, which is considered beyond “Top
    Secret.” A Jan. 14 letter, first reported by Fox News, from
    intelligence community Inspector General Charles McCullough III
    notified senior intelligence and foreign relations committee
    leaders that "several dozen emails containing classified
    information” were determined to be “at the CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET,
    AND TOP SECRET/SAP levels."

    The State Department is trying to finish its review and public
    release of thousands of Clinton emails, as the Democratic
    presidential primary contests get underway in early February.

    Under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, there is an
    exemption that allows for highly sensitive, and in this case
    classified, material to be withheld in full -- which means
    nothing would be released in these cases, not even heavily
    redacted versions, which has been standard practice with the
    1,340 such emails made public so far by the State Department.

    According to the Justice Department FOIA website, exemption “B3”
    allows a carve-out for both the CIA and NSA to withhold
    "operational files." Similar provisions also apply to other
    agencies.

    Fox News reported Friday that at least one Clinton email
    contained information identified as "HCS-O," which is the code
    for intelligence from human spying.

    One source, not authorized to speak on the record, suggested the
    intelligence agencies are operating on the assumption there are
    more copies of the Clinton emails out there, and even releasing
    a partial email would provide enough clues to trace back to the
    original – which could allow the identification of “special
    access programs” intelligence.

    There was no comment to Fox News from the Office of the Director
    of National Intelligence, the Office of the Intelligence
    Community Inspector General, or the agency involved. Fox News
    has chosen not to identify the agency that provided sworn
    declarations that intelligence beyond Top Secret was found in
    the Clinton emails.

    The State Department was scheduled to release more Clinton
    emails Friday, while asking a D.C. federal court for an
    extension.

    FBI investigators looking into the emails are focused on the
    criminal code pertaining to “gross negligence” in the handling
    and storage of classified information, and “public corruption.”

    “The documents alone in and of themselves set forth a set of
    compelling, articulable facts that statutes relating to
    espionage have been violated,” a former senior federal law
    enforcement officer said. The source said the ongoing
    investigation along the corruption track “also stems from her
    tenure of secretary. These charges would be inseparable from the
    other charges in as much as there is potential for significant
    overlap and correlation."

    Based on federal regulations, once classified information is
    spilled onto a personal computer or device, as was the case with
    Clinton and her aides, the hardware is now considered classified
    at the highest classification level of the materials received.

    While criticized by the Clinton campaign, McCullough, an Obama
    administration appointee, was relaying the conclusion of two
    intelligence agencies in his letter to Congress that the
    information was classified when it hit Clinton’s server -- and
    not his own judgment.

    Joseph E. Schmitz, a former inspector general of the Department
    of Defense, called the attacks on McCullough a “shoot the
    watchdog” tactic by Clinton’s campaign.

    The developments, taken together, show Clinton finding herself
    once again at the epicenter of a controversy over incomplete
    records.

    During her time as the first female partner at the Rose Law firm
    in Arkansas during the mid-1980s, she was known as one of the
    “three amigos” and close with partners Webb Hubbell and Vince
    Foster. Hubbell ended up a convicted felon for his role in the
    failure of the corrupt Madison Guaranty, a savings and loan
    which cost taxpayers more than $65 million. Hubbell embezzled
    more than a half-million dollars from the firm.

    Foster killed himself in Washington, D.C., in July 1993. As
    Clinton’s partner in the Rose Law firm, he had followed the
    Clintons into the White House where he served as the Clintons’
    personal lawyer and a White House deputy counsel.

    Clinton’s missing Rose Law billing records for her work for
    Guaranty during the mid-1980s were the subject of three intense
    federal investigations over two years. Those records, in the
    form of a computerized printout of her work performed on behalf
    of Guaranty, were discovered under mysterious circumstances in
    the Book Room of the private White House living quarters.

    The discovery of those records was announced during a blizzard
    in January 1996 by attorney David Kendall, who still represents
    Hillary Clinton. After Clinton testified before a grand jury,
    prosecutors concluded there was insufficient evidence to prove
    beyond a reasonable doubt she committed perjury or obstruction
    of justice.

    Despite Clinton’s recent public statements about not knowing how
    the technology works, at least one email suggests she directed a
    subordinate to work around the rules. In a June 2011 email to
    aide Jake Sullivan, she instructed him to take what appeared to
    be classified talking points, and "turn into nonpaper w no
    identifying heading and send nonsecure."

    A State Department spokesman could not say whether such a fax
    was sent.

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