CNN reported Friday morning on the overnight breaking story that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will face a possible criminal investigation over the private email server she used as secretary of state.
"Two State Department inspectors general asking the Justice Department to open a case to find out whether Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used when she was secretary of state," anchor Christine Romans said. "The Democratic frontrunner denies having any classified information in that account, but those inspectors have already determined the account contained hundreds of potentially classified emails."
At issue are thousands of pages of State Department emails from Mrs. Clinton’s private account. Mrs. Clinton has said she used the account because it was more convenient, but it also shielded her correspondence from congressional and Freedom of Information Act requests.
She faced sharp criticism after her use of the account became public, and subsequently said she would ask the State Department to release her emails.
The department is now reviewing some 55,000 pages of emails. A first batch of 3,000 pages was made public on June 30.
In the course of the email review, State Department officials determined that some information in the messages should be retroactively classified. In the 3,000 pages that were released, for example, portions of two dozen emails were redacted because they were upgraded to "classified status." But none of those were marked as classified at the time Mrs. Clinton handled them.