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Saturday 15 August 2015
AP EXCLUSIVE: Top secret Clinton emails include drone talk
BRADLEY KLAPPER private server she used Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton who have reviewed the
KEN DILANIAN as secretary of state. And listens to a home care worker during a roundtable discussion correspondence told The
Associated Press Republicans in Congress on home care in Los Angeles. Associated Press.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nei- have seized on the involve- On Monday, the inspec-
ther of the two emails sent ment of federal law en- (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) tor general for the 17 spy
to Hillary Rodham Clin- forcement in the matter as agencies that make up
ton now labeled by intel- a sign she was negligent in discussion of a U.S. drone improperly referred to high- what is known as the intel-
ligence agencies as “top handling U.S. secrets. strike, part of a covert pro- ly classified material, but it ligence community told
secret” contained informa- While polls show Clinton re- gram that is widely known also could have reflected Congress that two of 40
tion that would jump out to tains a commanding lead and discussed. A second information collected in- emails, in a random sam-
experts as particularly sen- over her Democratic presi- conversation could have dependently, U.S. officials ple of 30,000 messages
sitive, according to several dential rivals, her attempts that Clinton gave the State
government officials. to focus her campaign on Department for review,
Still, it’s looking increasingly issues like education and contained information
likely the issue of whether economic recovery have deemed “Top Secret,” one
Clinton mishandled clas- been complicated by con- of the government’s high-
sified information on her stant questions surround- est levels of classification.
home-brew email server ing her decision to run her While neither of the emails
will have significant politi- State Department email was marked classified at
cal implications in the 2016 correspondence through the time they were sent,
presidential campaign. an unsecured system set they have since been
Clinton, the front-runner up at her suburban New slapped with a “TK” mark-
for the Democratic nomi- York home. ing, for “Talent Keyhole,”
nation, agreed this week One of the now “top se- suggesting material ob-
to turn over to the FBI the cret” emails included a tained by spy satellites. q
Democrats undeclared on Iran deal heed voters, not ads
ANDREW TAYLOR dozen states represented pretty tame. It doesn’t ask Congress in March. appeared on Fox News.
Associated Press by undecided Democrats. viewers to take any ac- A group called Vets Against Another group, United
WASHINGTON (AP) It was The accord would curb tion like calling their sena- the Deal has produced a Against Nuclear Iran, is also
supposed to be a long and Iran’s nuclear program in tor or congressman. And it much tougher ad featuring running ads. It’s headed by
uncomfortable August for exchange for relief from doesn’t name names. an Iraq War veteran who former Independent Sen.
Democrats undecided economic sanctions, and A Republican Party strate- was badly wounded by a Joe Lieberman.
about President Barack the House and Senate are gist, Charlie Black, says a blast from an Iranian-made As the campaigns play out,
Obama’s nuclear deal with set to vote next month on harder-hitting approach bomb.“Every politician it’s appearing increasingly
Iran, but so far the political a resolution of disapproval. would turn off the very who is involved in this will likely that Democrats in the
heat brought on by oppo- “Iran has violated 20 inter- Democratic voters the be held accountable. They House and Senate will be
nents of the much-contest- national agreements and group would like to lobby will have blood on their able to muster the votes
ed accord is more of a sim- the leading state sponsor their lawmakers. hands,” says retired Staff to sustain a certain veto
mer than a boil. of terrorism,” says the ad by Many Democratic lawmak- Sgt. Robert Bartlett, whose by Obama. Sen. Chuck
Millions of dollars in televi- Citizens for a Nuclear Free ers are already upset that facial scars are evident. Schumer of New York, the
sion and online advertise- Iran, the AIPAC-sponsored they’ve been cast as anti- It’s not clear how large a chamber’s powerful Dem-
ments by an offshoot of the group. “Congress should Israel and were summoned media buy the group is ocratic leader-in-waiting,
powerful American Israel reject a bad deal.” for a stern lecture by Israel’s making. The ad won lots of is the only senator of his
Political Action Committee As political ads go, experts President Benjamin Netan- attention from conserva- party to publicly come out
are aimed at more than a agree, the commercial is yahu in a joint meeting of tive websites, and Bartlett against the deal.q
