Thousands of pages of Hillary Clinton's emails released
The State Department on Friday released about 7,000 more pages of emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, this batch providing a look at the scope of her personal network, ranging from Lady Gaga to Jimmy Carter.
The emails released Friday involve several boldfaced names, including celebrities, CEOs, political advisers and politicians whom she's now tapping for her presidential campaign.
The names include actor Ben Affleck and Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Roughly half of Clinton's 30,000 work-related emails are now public, and the State Department's effort to release the rest will linger into next year.
Most of the correspondence made public to date involves the mundane workings of government, scheduling meetings, organizing secure phone lines and booking flights.
Libya is a topic of some emails. One exchange, about five months before the Benghazi 9/11 attack, showed Clinton's frustration with recordkeeping as her staff appeared to be trying to put together a timeline on the fall of Muammar Qaddafi. Clinton noted a missing meeting and wrote in an email dated Apr. 4, 2012, "This timeline is totally inadequate (which bothers me about our recordkeeping). For example, I was in Paris on 3/19 when attack started. That's not on timeline. What else is missing?"
And four minutes later she finds other records missing and complains that a piece by the Washington Post's Joby Warrick "includes more detail than our own timeline." And that prompted a protest from someone whose name was redacted. "But the comprehensive tick tock...was done in large part for the Warrick piece," that email read.
About 200 to 300 of this batch of emails have marked as classified, State Department spokesman John Kirby said, though none were marked as such at the time they were sent or received by Clinton. The emails that were classified has been labeled as "confidential," the lowest level of classification.
This is the sixth batch of Clinton emails the State Department has released, in its continued effort to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits.
The latest release of emails comes amid continued questions about whether Clinton and her staff mishandled any classified or sensitive government information in her inbox. Clinton has come under fire for using a private email account and private server to conduct business, rather than an official State Department address.
Clinton, the Democratic front runner in the 2016 presidential race, faced hours of questions about her emails before the House Benghazi Committee earlier this month.