MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In March 2015, Hillary Clinton and her team were accused of lacking transparency after the New York Times revealed that she had used a personal email address for official business during her tenure as Secretary of State.
On June 30, the State Department released 3,000 of Clinton’s emails concerning the September 2012 terrorist attacks on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in accordance with Freedom of Information Act standards, to demonstrate its commitment to transparency.
Following a review of the some 55,000 pages of emails, the State Department and intelligence agencies found that at least one of the released emails contained classified information and a number of others were upgraded to "classified status," the New York Times reported, citing inspectors handling the case.
The Justice Department may open a criminal investigation into the mishandling of sensitive government information, senior officials said.
Clinton has repeatedly stated that the email account contained no classified information.
