After much conspiracy surrounding Hillary Clinton's private server for sending and receiving emails that were the focal point of the Benghazi hearing, the State Department on Friday released the first round of emails that they had uncovered from Clinton's private server that consists of 7,000 of 55,000 pages to be released by the State Department, which are from 2011 and 2012.
The release has been made available for the public to view. The emails also include 256 classified messages, which brings the total number of emails that have been upgraded to that status from her private service to 671. While she did remark that none of them were marked as classified during the time of sending, only four were marked "confidential," while none were marked as top secret, according to USA Today.
The 7,000 emails released show her interactions with many A-listers from celebrities to prominent world leaders such as Lady Gaga, Tony Blair, Aung San Suu Kyi and former president Jimmy Carter. Emails related with President Obama and Clinton will remain undisclosed, as legal precedent allows presidents to keep the information confidential. So the public will have to wait until Obama's term in the White House is over, Fox News reported.
Under court order, the emails will be released to the public in monthly batches, with the latest batch having contributed to more than half of total number of emails. The Republicans were hoping to uncover some dirt on Clinton's 2012 handling of the state of affairs during the Libyan crisis, but weren't able to bring anything to the table since the emails released didn't reveal anything substantial.
However, Obama's decision to keep their emails private for now and not disclosing them to the public gives the Republicans some hope there's a secret to uncover. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in March that the kinds of things that the president and the Secretary of State talk about are weighty national issues and that while Obama was aware of Clinton's email address, he wasn't aware of how the server was set up or whether Hillary Clinton would abide by the Federal Records Act, according to The Los Angeles Times.
