Hillary Clinton Says She Didn't Send or Receive Information Classified at the Time
The debate over whether some messages should have been classified has only become an issue because of her desire for transparency, the candidate argues.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton is viewed after speaking at New York University on July 24, 2015 in New York City.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Saturday that she neither sent nor received materials considered classified at the time through the private e-mail account she used while serving as secretary of state.
“I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received,” she told reporters in Winterset, Iowa, after news emerged this week that a federal watchdog had asked the FBI to review whether potentially classified material in her e-mails had been jeopardized during a State Department review of the messages ahead of public release.