--- title: Hillary Clinton Emails: 150 Now Deemed Classified description: The State Department released 7,000 emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server on Monday night canonical: https://time.com/4018142/hillary-clinton-email-released/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-01T01:00:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:43:40.826Z article:section: Politics og:title: More Hillary Clinton Emails Released og:description: 150 of the emails contain information now deemed classified. og:url: https://time.com/4018142/hillary-clinton-email-released/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt72948ec5e6b538ce/698861cee20a878f73a8d05e/hillary-clinton-emails2.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting on August 28, 2015 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: More Hillary Clinton Emails Released twitter:description: 150 of the emails contain information now deemed classified. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt72948ec5e6b538ce/698861cee20a878f73a8d05e/hillary-clinton-emails2.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Hillary Clinton Email Release Contains 150 Now Deemed Classified > Sponsored content. 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Adam Bettcher—Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Sep 1, 2015 1:00 AM UTC The State Department [released 7,000 emails](https://foia.state.gov/Search/results.aspx?searchText=%2A&beginDate=&endDate=&publishedBeginDate=20150801&publishedEndDate=&caseNumber=) from Hillary Clinton’s private server on Monday night, including 150 containing information now deemed to be classified. The email dump, the third since Clinton handed over the work-related emails on her private server to the State Department, is the largest batch released so far. None of the emails were classified at the time they were sent, a State Department spokesman told reporters. Clinton has [repeatedly insisted](http://time.com/3999566/hillary-clinton-downplays-email-concerns/) that she did not send emails marked as classified from her private server during her time as Secretary of State. Much of the content on her server has been labeled as classified after the fact, including two that have been called “top secret.” Two inspectors general concluded that two of Clinton’s emails contained material that was classified at the time they were sent. “I did not send or receive material marked as classified,” Clinton repeated last week at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting in Minneapolis. **MORE:**[_Hillary Clinton’s Lawyer Readies for Email War_](http://time.com/3998444/hillary-clinton-email-investigation-david-kendall/) A federal judge has ordered the State Department to release Clinton’s 55,000 work-related emails in monthly batches as they scan emails to ensure nothing publicly released contains sensitive information. Clinton’s use of a private email server has weighed heavily on her candidacy, hurting her trustworthiness among voters and stirring up doubts among Democratic Party leaders. Her campaign has sought to frame the controversy over classified material on her server as an interagency battle over classification, insisting that Clinton followed State Department protocol at the time. The FBI is now analyzing Clinton’s use of a private server to ensure they were handled securely, but there is no criminal investigation into her use of a server. ### See Every Hillary Clinton TIME Cover  The September 14, 1992 issue of TIME Gregory Heisler  The May 10, 1993 issue of TIME Steve Liss  The March 21, 1994 issue of TIME Dirck Halstead  The March 18, 1996 issue of TIME Brad Markel  The July 1, 1996 issue of TIME TIME  The October 20, 1997 issue of TIME Patrick Demarchelier  The Feb. 9, 1998, issue of TIME. TIME  The August 31, 1998 issue of TIME Blake Sell—Reuters  The Sep. 28, 1998, issue of TIME. (Hillary Clinton at top center, behind Bill Clinton.) Cover Credit: DOUG MILLS-AP, KHUE BUI, DAN LOH-AP & STEVE HELBER-AP  The Feb. 15, 1999, issue of TIME. 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