Hillary Clinton transmitted dozens of emails containing information that should have been marked classified at the time they were written.
The information in the emails was “foreign government information,” or intelligence that officials must automatically presume to be classified because it comes from sources in other governments, according to a Reuters report.
In more than 30 email chains from 2009, Clinton sent and received messages containing intelligence that was provided to the State Department by foreign diplomats.
The findings came from an examination of the emails that have already been made public, suggesting there could be many more such messages within the 55,000 pages of emails Clinton gave the State Department last year.
Clinton has repeatedly claimed she never sent or received anything that was classified at the time it was written.
However, the intelligence community inspector general has disputed this claim. The watchdog said it found two emails that should have been marked classified when they originated after examining a sample of just 40 messages.
Although the State Department denied the more than 30 emails contained “foreign government information,” the agency refused to offer an alternative explanation for the classification markings the records now display.
