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Clinton aware of need to protect data
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her aides at the US State Department were acutely aware of the need to protect sensitive information when discussing international affairs over e-mail and other forms of unsecure electronic communication, according to the latest batch of messages released by the agency from Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.
The State Department made public roughly 7,121 pages of Clinton’s e-mails late on Monday night, including 125 e-mails that were censored prior to their release because they contain information now deemed classified. The vast majority concerned mundane matters of daily life at any workplace: phone messages, relays of schedules and forwards of news articles.
But in a few of the e-mails, Clinton and her aides noted the constraints of discussing sensitive subjects when working outside of the government’s secure messaging systems — and the need to protect such information.
Experts in US government secrecy law see almost no possibility of criminal action against Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, or her top aides in connection with now-classified information sent over unsecure e-mail while she was secretary of state, based on the public evidence thus far.
But the controversy over her private e-mail server has been a distraction for her presidential campaign. Of particular concern are polls in key swing states showing that growing numbers of voters see Clinton as untrustworthy which could make her vulnerable in the general election should she win the Democratic nomination.
The e-mail conversations with Clinton took place via her private e-mail account, highlighting the challenge the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination faces as she struggles to explain her decision to set-up a private e-mail server at her New York home.
The increasing amounts of blacked-out information from Clinton’s e-mail history as secretary of state will surely prompt additional questions about her handling of government secrets while in office and that of her most trusted advisers. Clinton now says her use of a home e-mail server for government business was a mistake, and government inspectors have pointed to exchanges that never should have been sent via unsecured channels.
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