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 At least four emails from the account used by Clinton while she
was secretary of state contained classified information, according
to a government watchdog. Clinton has said she did not send or
receive any secret information using that account, but Boehner cast
doubt on this.
"Despite evidence to the contrary, Secretary Clinton continues to
maintain that she never had classified emails. Now let's not be
foolish," Boehner told reporters at a regular news conference.
"She knows exactly how classifying materials works. At this point
the best thing for Mrs. Clinton to do is to come clean and just turn
the server over to the IG (inspector general) at the State
Department."
 Clinton's use of her private email account linked to a server in her
New York home for her work as America's top diplomat came to light
in March and drew fire from political opponents who accused her of
sidestepping transparency and record-keeping laws.
The inspector general who oversees U.S. intelligence agencies wrote
in a letter to members of Congress last week that a sampling of 40
of about 30,000 emails sent or received by Clinton found at least
four that contained information the government had classified as
secret.
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The information was classified at the time the emails were sent,
according to the inspector general, Charles McCullough.
"This classified information should never have been transmitted via
an unclassified personal system," McCullough said in a joint
statement on Friday along with his equivalent at the State
Department, Steve Linick.
(Reporting by Susan Cornwell; Writing by Emily Stephenson; Editing
by Will Dunham)
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