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Clinton Received State Dept Email With Classified Marking in 2012

Hillary Clinton
AP
June 13, 2016

An email released by the State Department undermines Hillary Clinton’s claim that nothing she sent or received on her private server was marked classified at the time during her tenure as secretary of state.

State Department aide Monica Hanley sent an email with classified markings to Clinton in 2012 referring to a call with Malawi’s first female president following the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika, Fox News exclusively reported Saturday.

The email was coded with the portion marking "C," meaning confidential, at the time it was sent to Clinton’s server. It was not to be declassified until April 2027.

The rest of the chain had been redacted before the State Department publicly released the full conversation.

"(C) Purpose of Call: to offer condolences on the passing of President Mukharika and congratulate President Banda on her recent swearing in," the email read.

A government source told Fox News that other emails marked classified also passed through Clinton’s personal server.

Government officials have found more than 2,000 emails on Clinton’s server containing classified information, though none were marked classified on her personal email. Twenty-two messages have been deemed "top secret," the highest classification level, and were withheld from public release earlier this year.