Baku-APA. Two recently identified emails on the private server of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton have stirred intelligence and security concerns in the United States, according to media reports, APA reports quoting Press TV.
The emails have been publicly available since May and were responsible for an FBI investigation into a potential mishandling of classified information by the former secretary of state, Fox News reported on Wednesday.
One of the emails, composed by the US State Department’s Tim Davis, and later forwarded to Clinton by her longtime assistant Huma Abedin, discusses the deteriorating situation in the Libyan city of Ajdabiyah.
"AFRICOM reported Qadhafi's forces took the eastern and western gates of Ajdabiyah, with 5 vehicles at the eastern gate and 50 at the western gate. More Qadhafi forces are heading to Ajdabiyah from Brega," reads the un-redacted letter.
The original email by Davis had an “SBU” classification, which means it was sensitive but not classified. However, according to government sources, the letter had to be “classified” since it contained military intelligence.
According to the letter, the conditions were so bad that then-US special envoy Christopher Stevens was "considering departure from Benghazi." Stevens was killed during the 2012 attack against the American diplomatic compound in the city, a short while after becoming Washington’s ambassador to Libya.
The other email dates back to 2012 and was forwarded to Clinton by her aide Jake Sullivan.
The document discusses the arrests that were made in relation to the Benghazi attacks. A few lines were redacted from this letter.
Clinton’s use of a private email server has put thousands of pages of State Department correspondence at risk.
The Democratic presidential candidate has long denied handling classified information on her private account when she served as secretary of state.
She has handed over more than 30,000 emails to the State Department for investigation. Some of the emails have been made public and the department is reviewing the possibility of releasing the rest.
Court documents released this week show that more than 300 of Clinton's emails have been flagged for further review by intelligence officials to determine whether they contained classified information.
The email scandal has pushed down Clinton’s poll numbers, particularly with regards to the issue of trustworthiness.
An Associated Press-GfK poll found that six out of ten American voters believe that the word "honest" describes Clinton only slightly well or not well at all.
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