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Hillary Clinton sent emails on everything from a gefilte fish 'mission' to masks and 'top secrets'

The U.S. State Department released its biggest trove yet of emails sent or received by former secretarial assistant of state Hillary Rodham Clinton

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The U.S. State Department released its biggest trove nonetheless of emails sent or received by one-time secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton late Monday. The emails are the latest in a rolling review of material that passed through an unorthodox private e-mail system the Autonomous presidential candidate has said she now regrets. The more 7,000 pages of emails, dating from 2009 and 2010, incorporate a heavy dose of mundane bureaucratic back-and-along and more than a little gossip. Here a few:

Gefilte fish

A seemingly non-political, but potentially controversial message was sent to both Jake Sullivan, one of her top directorate, and Richard Verma, the former assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs. The subject area line says just: "Gefilte fish." The electronic mail is 5 words long: "Where are we on this?" Gefilte fish is a Jewish dish. A large shipment of frozen fish had been held on its mode from Illinois to Israel and was going to be hit with a 120 per cent import duty unless an exception was made. Clinton, it seems, had been contacted past then-Illinois Rep. Don Manzullo. "Sounds to me like i of those bug that should rise to the highest levels of our authorities," she wrote. "I volition take that mission on."

This is top hush-hush?

Clinton expressed frustration with the Land Department's treatment of certain ordinary documents every bit classified. After an aide noted a draft of innocuous remarks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was on the Country Department'south classified messaging system, she responded, "Information technology's a public statement! Just email information technology." Sent a moment later on, the statement just said that U.S. and British officials would work together to promote peace. "Well that is certainly worthy of being pinnacle secret," Clinton responded sarcastically.

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Mom, Dad

Chelsea Clinton warned her parents that international relief efforts in Haiti were a disaster and that major changes were needed : "To say I was profoundly disturbed by what I saw — and didn't come across — would be an understatement," she wrote in a memo addressed to "Dad, Mom" and fastened to an email she sent while her mother was secretary of state and her father was leading relief efforts for the 2010 earthquake in Republic of haiti. "The incompetence is mind numbing."

Just Mom

"To my favorite secretary of state — i take a complaint nearly the website i deceit come across video of your talks or q&a sessions — merely the text!" Chelsea Clinton, writing under the code name "Diane Reynolds," told her mother.

On Boehner

The messages comprise insights into Clinton's circle in those days, especially missives from Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime adviser who provided sometimes blunt comments. In one, Blumenthal offered a caustic assessment of Speaker John A. Boehner, who he said was "despised" by younger, more than conservative Republicans. "They are repelled by his personal behavior," Blumenthal wrote. "He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle."

Dropping the mask

When her aide, Cheryl D. Mills, sent her a news story about someone robbing a Virginia banking company wearing a Hillary Clinton mask, the real Clinton responded: "Should I exist flattered? Fifty-fifty a trivial bit?" Her lawyer, David East. Kendall, copied on the electronic mail concatenation, added that he had done research and other robbers had used masks of Richard Chiliad. Nixon, George W. Bush-league and Ronald Reagan. "We appear to be the kickoff Democrat, withal," he wrote.