Well lookie here. Even though Hillary Clinton says she did not send or receive any classified info on her clintonemail.com account, it turns out she did. In fact Clinton sent a classifed e-mail on clintonemail.com AFTER leaving the State Department.
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An e-mail that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sent almost four months after she left the State Department was partially redacted before being publicly released, raising questions about whether she conveyed classified information as a private citizen.
The May 2013 e-mail, which the Republican National Committee obtained under a Freedom of Information Act and provided Wednesday, joins more than 2,000 messages that the former secretary of state sent or received through her private server during her tenure that have been labeled “confidential,” a low level of classification.
Clinton and her campaign have said that many of the documents were classified retroactively in order to release them publicly. That was the case with the May 2013 e-mail, State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement Wednesday.
Clinton sent the message, reported earlier Wednesday by the New York Post, to current and former State Department officials. In it, she forwarded a link to a New York Times story about South Korea’s nuclear reactor and went on to reminisce about an episode from when she was the top U.S. diplomat.
“Remember how after US signed 123 deal w UAE and we were in Abu Dhabi and…,” she wrote before the redacted text.