Emails On Hillary's Private Server Have References To Undercover CIA Officers

U.S. officials say the emails sent to Hillary Clinton's private email address on her home server contained references to undercover CIA officers as a Fox News report released earlier this week claimed the messages put 'sources, methods and lives' in jeopardy. 

The references were obvious enough that those emails were retroactively classified by the State Department during its review of the former secretary of state's communications. In one instance a CIA officer was referred to as State in an email to conceal the operative's true occupation. In another, an agent was deemed OGA for other government agency - an alternative name for the CIA within the government. The messages are part of a grouping of 22 emails now considered 'top secret' that were kept back from a State Department docu-dump last Friday. The federal government said the emails were so sensitive they could never see the light of day. A top secret categorization means by definition that they include information that would case exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States.

Fox News said in a follow up report, released as voting began in Iowa in the Democratic primary, that the emails contained operational intelligence and in storing them on her home server Clinton put 'sources, methods and lives' of CIA affiliates on the line. Responding to the widely circulated Fox report, spokesman Brian Fallon said “this shows yet again how the leaking of selective details gives a completely false impression about what is actually contained in the emails forwarded to Hillary Clinton. Whenever the full contents of these emails are learned, there is invariably less than meets the eye”.

Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo, who is also on the House intelligence committee, said in his expert opinion, the emails should remain classified. He said that “there is no way that someone, a senior government official who has been handling classified information for a good chunk of their adult life, could not have known that this information ought to be classified, whether it was marked or not. Anyone with the capacity to read and an understanding of American national security, an 8th grade reading level or above, would understand that the release of this information or the potential breach of a non-secure system presented risk to American national security”.

Clinton says she did not send any classified information, and that claim is held up in the emails chains that were forwarded to her