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State Dept Transparency Czar Included Within Some Classified Clinton Emails

AP
September 14, 2015

 

The woman chosen to preside over the release of Hillary Clinton’s emails from the State Department was found to be included within emails she is in charge of overseeing.

Janice Jacobs, the transparency coordinator streaming the release of Hillary emails from the State Department, is included in at least some classified emails raising questions about her impartiality, according to the Washington Examiner.

The Examiner reports:

But Jacobs herself is included among the records she is charged with disclosing, raising questions about her impartiality when it comes to screening her own correspondence.

For example, Jacobs is copied on an email that discussed "diplomatic activity" in North Korea. The email has since been classified.

Jacobs was included in another email discussion of North Korea that has been classified by the State Department — this one about "consular activity" in the country in April 2009.

She was also looped into an email chain involving the Haitian prime minister in February 2010, as State Department officials planned for a major donors' conference in New York to benefit Haiti after its devastating earthquake.

The email discussed the private thoughts of Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, including his opinion about how the Dominican Republic should help Haiti coordinate international donations.

Bellerive's positions are now classified, as are parts of the email that lay out potential plans for U.S. troops to have a presence in Haiti.

 Additionally, last week it was discovered Jacobs had donated $2,700--the maximum amount--to Clinton's current presidential campaign.