A handful of “top secret” emails found among Hillary Clinton’s private records may have crossed more than a dozen different inboxes.
Clinton’s top aides, including Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan, may have been among a larger group of people who read and shared the 22 highly sensitive emails on unsecured channels, according to report Wednesday by Fox News.
Patrick Kennedy, the agency’s top record-keeping official, may have been among the officials who improperly handled the top secret emails. While he has reportedly maintained that he did not realize Clinton relied on at least two private email accounts exclusively for her official communications, he is copied on many of the work-related emails Clinton turned over to the State Department in late 2014.
The revelation that emails containing top secret intelligence could have spilled into so many email accounts may complicate the State Department’s efforts to protect the classified emails in question.
Last year, Kennedy reached out to Clinton’s legal team to ensure they deleted copies of emails that were classified well below top secret.
