A newly-published batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails contains 215 classified documents, the State Department said Wednesday.
The 3,849 documents released by the State Department Wednesday contains documents that are marked “confidential,” as well as at least two that are marked “secret,” the next-highest level of classification.
“In this production, portions of 215 documents were upgraded,” John Kirby, State Department spokesman, said of the emails. “The information we upgraded today was not marked classified at the time the emails were sent. It has been subsequently upgraded.”
Kirby said the process of upgrading documents is “routine” and “happens frequently.”
Clinton has maintained that nothing she sent or received on her private server was marked classified at the time.
But the inspector general for the intelligence community has argued some of the emails might have been classified “when originated,” raising questions about how sensitive material was handled within Clinton’s circle.
The FBI is presently investigating whether classified documents were mishandled on Clinton’s email network. Her campaign insists the probe is a routine “security inquiry” and not a criminal investigation.
