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State Department says classified material on Hillary's home-brew server was so sensitive that the safe it gave her lawyer to store the emails wasn't secure enough
The State Department ordered lawyer David Kendall to store her emails in a special safe that it installed in his office
Now the agency says some of the material was so sensitive that even that purpose-built safe wasn't secure enough
Kendall has top-secret clearance but a few of Hillary's emails were later classified even higher – and required storage in a specialized facility
A Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) is a room hardened against hackers and electronic eavesdropping
The State Department has told Senate investigators that it didn't provide Hillary Rodham Clinton's lawyer with a secure-enough method to read now-highly classified material from her homebrew email server because it didn't anticipate that the messages would be deemed so secret. In July, State Department officials installed a safe at the office of attorney David Kendall after the government determined some of Clinton's emails may have contained classified information. But it said last week the safe wasn't suitable for so-called top secret, sensitive compartmented information, known as TS/SCI, which the government has said was found in some messages. Assistant Secretary of State Julia Frifield wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley on Sept. 22 that 'while the safe was suitable for up to [top secret] information, it was not approved for TS/SCI material' because the material wasn't held in a facility set up for discussing highly secret information, known as a SCIF, or sensitive compartmented information facility.