I went part way through the latest batch. Clinton's claim that they are being retroactivity classified (i.e. overclassified) is clearly false. The state dept has redacted practically every email with any substance, removing names and all sorts of mundane data (e.g. redacting an public letter from a Senator). Most of those redacted emails are unclassified meaning that they redacted unclassified info because it was sensitive.
The email corpus contains some Confidential emails. Those are also redacted. In that case both Confidential and sensitive data has been redacted and there's no way to know how much of each. There are no Secret or higher emails in the corpus (that I have seen so far) because I think they don't release those, even redacted. One email says "Do not forward" but it was forwarded anyway to Clinton. It is marked Confidential and heavily redacted. Her claim that no emails were marked classified is obviously technically correct but her staff obviously disregarded the laws and regulations about marking and they knowingly did that by using terms like "do not forward". There is a bus warming up for some of them. I would guess Mills from the emails I have read so far.
Hillary's claim that the classified emails should be released is dangerous and delusional posturing for uninformed voters. There is redacted sensitive information in many of the unclassified emails which would be harmful to release. The classified emails would clearly be harmful to release even just the Confidential ones that are already redacted and released.
From:
https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_Feb26thWeb/O-2015-08632FEB26/DOC_0C05781375/C05781375.pdf From: Neera Tanden [email addy redacted]
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 9:50 PM
To: H
Subject: hacked email
My apologies - my account had been hacked. Our security team traced it to a counterfeit pharmaceutical company in the Philippines, so it's not more nefarious than that but I'm very sorry to have that email sent to you. We've restored the account, so shouldn't happen again.
While I can only imagine your travels to have been exhausting, at this somewhat awkward time for the world's view of us I'm glad you were there representing American leadership. We're all lucky for it.
We've all been consumed by the debt limit fight, and I can honestly say it's been incredibly dispiriting. On many levels. The assumptions the White House are making are almost the most depressing element of this.
Neera
Neera Tanden hugs Hillary Clinton at the Center for American Progress 10th Anniversary event in 2013.