More Clinton emails sensitive

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton sent or received at least an additional 125 emails through her private computer server while she served as secretary of state that were later determined to contain classified material, according to new records released late Monday by the State Department.

The emails that have been partially or entirely redacted before being released to the public appear to contain sensitive U.S. and foreign government information on a range of issues from around the globe.

On Oct. 12, 2010, a former U.S. ambassador, Thomas Shannon, wrote to Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, about Inter-American Development Bank funding for an energy production project in Haiti. The email was forwarded to Clinton.

On Dec. 7, 2010, Clinton was copied on an email about a report being issued on Norwegian assistance to Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in the 1980s and 1990s. On Dec. 5, 2009, Clinton shot off a note to Arturo Valenzuela, her assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere, seeking an update on several matters and asking about the situation in Honduras.

"It's never dull in WHA!" she wrote, apparently referring to Western Hemisphere affairs.

Valenzuela replied after landing in Florida en route to Mexico, where he planned to meet with U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual. "On Honduras, we are ok," Valenzuela wrote her. "We maintain a principled position - no to coup."

The emails that are now classified are all at the "confidential" level - the lowest level of classification - and not the more sensitive "Top Secret" or "Secret," said a State Department official who is not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

The State Department released about 7,000 pages of emails from 2009 and 2010 in response to a public records lawsuit over the Democratic candidate's correspondence. Spokesman Mark Toner said about 150 were determined to have contained classified information. The new number was first reported by Fox News.

The information in the emails was not classified when they were transmitted to or from Clinton's email, Toner said, but were "upgraded" later.

Classification "is not an exact science," he said, explaining that it is subject to an interagency effort to go through them and "upgrade them as necessary, as we see fit."

Clinton's exclusive use of a personal email account, routed through a private server for all four years she served as secretary of state, has become the focus of inquiries by the FBI, a pair of inspectors general, and Congress. At the request of the FBI, Clinton turned over her computer server after months of resistance.

In at least one email, Clinton acknowledged her decision to send sensitive information by email. In a Jan. 30, 2010, email to then USAID Administrator Raj Shah and copied to Mills, Clinton wrote "Pls don't forward my last email" in the subject line.

The department has been releasing the emails after they were scrubbed for classified information in response to a lawsuit over an unanswered public records request filed by the Associated Press after it was disclosed that Clinton had used the private server at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., instead of her official State Department system.

On Jan. 27, 2010, Mills shared news with the secretary that Edmond Mulet, special representative of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, would be leaving.

"Also for WJC," Mills wrote, meaning she wanted the news to be shared with Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, whose global foundation was trying to help the island nation recover from a massive earthquake two weeks earlier. The short, mostly redacted email was marked "confidential."

On April 25, 2010, State Department official William Burns sent Clinton a message about Cape Verde and Nigeria. Most is redacted; in part, according to the redaction code, because it dealt with "foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources."