More of Hillary Clinton’s emails will be upgraded to classified as State Department officials continue to screen the records for sensitive information, an agency spokesman said Monday.
“I have no doubt that as we continue to release these emails, over time, you’ll see more upgraded [to classified],” said John Kirby, the State Department spokesman.
“This is the result of the care and the scrutiny with which we are scrutinizing this email traffic.”
He noted that while 63 of the roughly 3,000 emails published so far had been marked classified, the overall percentage of classified documents was still low. Most of the upgraded emails were classified at the “confidential” level, the lowest grade of classification in government.
Kirby said prohibitions against handling sensitive information on unclassified networks apply equally across personal accounts and “state.gov” email addresses.
“You’re not supposed to transmit sensitive and classified information. You’re just not supposed to do that, and it doesn’t matter whether I’m emailing you from my Yahoo account or my state.gov [account],” he said.
Clinton has attempted to dodge questions about the classified information that was stored on her server as officials from the intelligence community have uncovered a growing number of potentially classified records among her emails.
Intelligence experts have flagged 305 messages for review.
Even so, Kirby insisted the agency has detected “no indication of negligence or wrongdoing at this point.”
