Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton on Wednesday brushed off a report that her private email server contained classified intelligence from some of the U.S. intelligence community's most secretive programs.
The former secretary of state told National Public Radio that the report was a "leak" designed to harm her in the presidential race despite offering no evidence. And a spokesman for the Democratic presidential front-runner went so far as to publicly accuse investigators looking into her server as conspiring with Republican senators to embarrass her.
"As the State Department has confirmed, I never sent or received any material marked classified, and that hasn't changed in all of these months," she said. "This, seems to me, to be, you know, another effort to inject this into the campaign. It's another leak."
She also called an inspector general's letter a "continuation of an inter-agency dispute that has been going on now for some months."
Clinton was referring to a letter sent by Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III to leaders on congressional intelligence committees last week detailing the findings from a review of Clinton's emails, a spokeswoman for the inspector general confirmed to CNN.
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Two government agencies flagged emails on Clinton's server as containing classified information, the inspector general said, including some on "special access programs," which are a subset of the highest "Top Secret" level of classification, but are under subject to more stringent control rules than even other Top Secret information."
Clinton's spokesman, Brian Fallon, told Bloomberg that the campaign believes McCullough and Republican senators worked together to make sure the report would become public.
"It is suspect from the beginning that the intelligence community inspector general is continuing to reveal materials and surface allegations while the Justice Department review is going on," Fallon told Bloomberg. "It's completely fair to suspect that the intelligence community inspector general is not operating in good faith."
Fallon also appeared on CNN Wednesday morning to dispute the report. He argued on "New Day" that the information described as "classified" may be no more than a news article that was forwarded, although he ceded it is not entirely clear what classified material the report mentions.
Fallon argued that the crux of the issue is a dispute between the State Department and the intelligence community over what should be classified. He said the emails were not classified in the eyes of the State Department when they were sent to Clinton. Fallon also implied the inspector general has an ax to grind with Clinton.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
Ok - she broke the law when she used her personal email server for government business, and she really thinks it's ok to accuse the government agencies investingating her are simply trying to derail her campaign? There is not dispute whatsoever that she did it.
And this is the same woman who yells "What difference does it make now?" when being questioned about the deaths of Americans in Benzhagi.
How can ANYONE think this woman is fit to be president?
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
If that woman was to tell me I was a real person I'd have my doubts. She lies so much.
What a snake.
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she not only broke the law, she lies and tries to cover it up! and her total disrespect towards those innocents who have died and those she could have helped save...she is a worthless individual in my mind and I think she should be in prison, and NOT running for the President.
I hope justice is served soon. because if she really did nothing wrong, then she has nothing to worry about....
<snort> <snort>
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I hate to say it but she's not going to get into any trouble. They'll keep this in the forefront until the next scandal comes up and then this will gently fade away. No one in Washington is ever held responsible for their actions these days. Lois Lerner anyone?
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
Nothing happened to Lois Lerner or any of the other corrupt politicians in the Obama Administration. Nothing is going to happen to her legally either. Oh, there may be a hearing, blah, blah as a dog and pony show. However, she is plummeting in the polls to an old white man who wants to raise massive taxes.