State Department Review of Clinton Emails Cites 38 People for Mishandling Classified Information

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Jan. 23, 2013. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

The State Department found 38 people culpable of “failure to safeguard classified information” in the final report on its yearlong security review of thousands of emails sent through the unauthorized email server used by Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state.

“Instances of classified information being deliberately transmitted via unclassified email were the rare exception and resulted in adjudicated security violations,” according to the report (pdf) released by the Senate Finance Committee. “There was no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information.”