Gov Official: ‘Top Secret’ Clinton Emails Contained Intel That Put Lives at Risk

An unnamed government official told Fox News Monday that the 22 Hillary Clinton emails that were ruled “top secret” Friday contained information that would have put lives at risk had Clinton’s server been compromised.

The source, who had intimate knowledge of the emails’ contents but was not authorized to speak on the record, told Fox’s Catherine Herridge that they contained “operational intelligence,” which is typically “real-time information about intelligence collection, sources and the movement of assets.” The source added that the emails’ presence on an unsecured server jeopardized “sources, methods and lives.”

Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo told Fox he wasn’t buying the former secretary of state’s excuse that the emails weren’t marked classified at the time. “There is no way that someone, a senior government official who has been handling classified information for a good chunk of their adult life, could not have known that this information ought to be classified, whether it was marked or not,” he said.

Fox News and Herridge scooped the State Department last week, reporting that 22 emails had been deemed “too damaging” to be released hours before the department announced the decision. According to Herridge, the emails in question were so classified that even senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee weren’t allowed to know the contents.

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