Final Batch of Clinton Emails Released, Netanyahu’s Conversations Disparagement

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The US State Department released the final batch of Hillary Clinton's emails on Monday from her time at the agency's helm, bringing the final tally of emails it said contain classified information to more than 2,000.

The department has been regularly releasing batches of her work emails in keeping with a judge's order. But Monday's release of the final 1,700 messages did not end the controversy and legal uncertainty dogging Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign since her use of a private email server came to light a year ago.

Clinton's Aide reported in 2010 that "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spoken disrespectfully of the then-US secretary of state in a closed door meeting, according to an e-mail released on Monday, in which Netanyahu said that "if we can't sleep, Hillary is not going to sleep."

For their part, Republican rivals in the battle for the Nov. 8 election cited the email controversy in saying Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, is unfit for the presidency.

However, Clinton, secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, said her email arrangement broke no rules and that she will be vindicated.

One of the newly released exchanges showed Clinton and Jake Sullivan, one of her closest aides, in a discussion now entirely censored as "secret," the second-highest level in the government's three-tier classification system.

The messages, sent on June 7, 2012, bear the subject "Khar - where we are" - likely a reference to Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan's foreign minister. The previous day, Pakistan had renewed its insistence that the US apologize for an air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

Relatively, the US government forbids sending or storing classified information outside secure, government-controlled channels. The State Department is investigating how much of the information in the more than 2,000 emails marked as classified was classified at the time they were sent.

A further 65 contain "secret" information, including at least one written by Clinton, while 22 contain "top-secret" information from US intelligence agencies, which have been entirely withheld from release.

State Department lawyers told a federal judge last week they still did not know who in the government authorized Clinton's email arrangement or why. However, Clinton said the arrangement was for her convenience, but that she now regrets it.

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