The State Department insisted Tuesday that Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy was not trying to declassify one of Hillary Clinton’s private emails in order to minimize the appearance of classified information in those emails, but to ensure the public could see as much of her emails as possible.
“We always operated under the … mindset that we wanted to make as much possible public as we could,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. “I think that was the intent behind the FOIAs.”
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