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WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2016 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch today released a letter from the Department of State to Hillary Clinton's lawyers that includes a list of classified records to be either deleted or returned to the State Department. The documents were produced under court order in a FOIA lawsuit for all of Clinton emails and for records about her email practices (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)).

The June 30, 2015, letter from Secretary of State for Management Patrick F. Kennedy to Clinton lawyers David Kendall and Katherine Turner states in part:

I am writing in reference to the e-mails on the attached listing ("listed documents") that are among the approximately 55,000 pages that were identified as potential federal records and produced on behalf of former Secretary Clinton to the Department of State on December 5, 2014.

Please be advised that portions of the listed documents have now been classified as "Confidential" pursuant to Section 1.7(d) of Executive Order 13526 in connection with a review and release under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In order to safeguard and protect the classified information, I ask - consistent with my letters to you dated March 23 and June 19, 2015 - that you, Secretary Clinton and others assisting her in responding to congressional and related inquiries coordinate in taking the steps set forth below.

1. If there are electronic copies of the listed documents in your possession (other than on the master copies that are being secured at your firm), please delete them. Additionally, once you have done that, please empty your "Deleted Items" folder.
    
2.  Place any non-electronic copies of the listed documents that you locate in a brown envelope, seal it, address it to my office and mark the word "CONFIDENTIAL" on the outside of that envelope. Once that is done, please notify us and we will pick up the envelope from your office.
    
3. If any of these documents have been further disseminated, the recipients must also be put on notice about their classification. As described above, electronic copies should be deleted and non-electronic copies should be retrieved and provided to the Department.

Finally, please note that the classification of portions of the listed documents pursuant to Executive Order 13526, Section 1. 7(d), does not in itself indicate that any person previously acted improperly with respect to the document or the information contained therein….

Attached to the letter is a list of 25 documents, all dated from 2009, under the label, "Reclassification/Classification of Information Under Section 1.7 (d) of Executive Order 13526":

1. Re. Honduras 
2. Meeting Between DSE Farmer and President Preval
3. Note from Bill Burns
4. Re: Update
5. FW: Update on US Support of GOH Plan
6. Fw: DPRK AMCIT DETENTIONS CONFERENCE CALL – a quick addition

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