22 Hillary Clinton Emails Deemed 'Top Secret' By Government: Report

Hillary Clinton’s private, home server contained 22 emails with information that the government has classified as “top secret,” The Associated Press reported Friday, just days before the first votes are cast in the presidential nomination.

The State Department was scheduled to release another batch of Clinton’s emails Friday evening but will completely withhold 37 pages of information that one intelligence official told the AP concerned ”special access programs,” according to the report.

“The documents are being upgraded at the request of the intelligence community because they contain a category of top secret information,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said, according to the AP.

It was not immediately clear exactly what information was contained in the emails or whether they were sent by Clinton herself, the AP reported.

Clinton has maintained that all of the emails she kept on her server did not contain information that was classified at the time.

“This is overclassification run amok,” Clinton’s campaign spokesman, Brian Fallon, tweeted after the report was published. “We adamantly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails.”

The report comes three days before Monday’s Iowa Caucuses, where Clinton is clinging to a small lead in polling over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the race for the Democratic nomination.

Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct State Department business when she was Secretary of State was first revealed in March. Her political opponents, both Republican and Democrat, have frequently used her emails to attack her and question her trustworthiness.

Ted Cruz put out a sarcastic commercial calling Clinton “the Grinch who lost her emails.”

Donald Trump has said that the only reason Clinton is running “is because she wants to stay out of jail.”

It got so bad that during one Democratic debate, Sanders said Americans were “sick and tired of hearing about her damn emails.”

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