State Dept releases largest batch of Clinton e-mails

The State Department on released more than 7,000 pages of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's e-mails, in the first tranche since her 11-hour, closely scrutinized testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. The document dump is the sixth of its kind in 2015, following a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act that will force roughly 30,000 of Clinton’s e-mails into the light by late January. It is the largest single release of Clinton’s e-mails, State Department spokesman John Kirby said. As of Oct 30, 51 percent of the e-mails that Clinton has identified as work-related have now been released to the public. Between 200 and 300 have been classified as “confidential,” Kirby added, which is the lowest level of government classification. As it has maintained in the past, however, the State Department insisted that the information in those e-mails became classified after it was originally sent.