For the first time, emails that helped kick-start the current investigations against Hillary Clinton have been identified according to a report by Fox News' Catherine Herridge. The emails were from top Clinton advisers and had earlier been released to the Benghazi select committee.
Surprisingly, the Clinton campaign has fallen back upon the Fox News report on the origin of the FBI probe into the candidate's server, trying to argue that it proves she did nothing wrong.
A spokeswoman for the intelligence community inspector general dismissed the claims and reiterated to Fox News that the information in the emails was in fact considered classified at the time it was sent.
Campaign Press Secretary Brian Fallon said that they had not known which emails originally had been flagged, and called the Fox News report a "watershed" moment in understanding what led to the review. Calling the report "fortuitous" and saying they have no reason to doubt its veracity, the aides also emphasized the emails were not written by Clinton herself, reports Economic World.
"We again would like to see the government agencies involved in this process to proceed as quickly as possible in conducting a review of the emails. We think it will vindicate all the points we made today on this whole matter," Fallon said according to Fox News.
The Clinton campaign opined that the whole experience was a reflection of the government's tendency toward classification. "We think that this says more about the bent towards secrecy within some corners of the government. It says more about that than it does about Hillary Clinton's email practices," Fallon said, according to Horizon Post.
