Clinton email disclosure slowed by security concerns

July 31, 2015 at 11:16 a.m. | Updated July 31, 2015 at 1:39 p.m.

by The Associated Press

In this July 27, 2015, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the Des Moines Area Rapid Transit Central Station in Des Moines, Iowa. Clinton is under scrutiny over whether she sent or received classified information on unsecured email when she was secretary of state.
In this July 27, 2015, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the Des Moines Area Rapid Transit Central Station in Des Moines, Iowa. Clinton is under scrutiny over whether she sent or received classified information on unsecured email when she was secretary of state.

The State Department is releasing fewer than expected of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails.

It said the process is slower because of intense scrutiny by U.S. intelligence agencies to ensure that emails from her private server don't contain any sensitive or classified government secrets.

In emails the State Department released Friday, the government censored passages to protect national security secrets at least 64 times. Clinton has said she never sent classified information from her private email server, which The Associated Press was first to identify in her home in New York.

The government on Friday released 2,206 pages of emails, roughly 12 percent of the 55,000 pages Clinton had turned over to department lawyers earlier this year.

Read Saturday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.

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