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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2014 file photo, the State Department is seen in Washington. Ahead of Sundays 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the State Department is reminding U.S. citizens about threats around the world and urging Americans to be vigilant about their personal security. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

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President Barack Obama speaking at the Chief of Missions Conference at the State Department in Washington, Monday, March 14, 2016. Obama says he's confident he can make significant progress on foreign policy in the next 10 months. The President addressed ambassadors and other diplomats recently returned from overseas posts during a conference at the State Department.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Tim Constantine reports on the latest revelations from Hillary Clinton's State Department emails, and an apology from the governor of Maine.

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Tim Constantine reports on the search for yet more emails from Hillary Clinton's time at the State Department, and big changes coming for some drug offenders.

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The email scandal shows little sign of subsiding a year after the State Department first prodded Hillary Rodham Clinton to return some 30,000 messages from her four years as secretary.

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A piece of the Berlin Wall comes to the State Department

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Since the revelation this spring that Hillary Rodham Clinton had a private email server where she conducted some official business, the State Department has been busy reviewing some 30,000 emails in that account for possible release to both the House Select Committee on Benghazi and a federal court handling a FOIA lawsuit. (Associated Press)

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Federal officials have known since May that Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department email included classified information, according to a report Thursday night by McClatchy News. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on the State Department's ITAR regulation of the Internet by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (center) and State Department Chief of Staff Jon Finer (left) meet with members of the U.S. delegation at the garden of the Palais Coburg hotel where the Iran nuclear talks meetings are being held in Vienna on July 10, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Hillary Rodham Clinton turned over to the State Department 55,000 pages containing some 30,000 emails from a larger collection. The remaining emails were deleted from her server, she said. (Associated Press)

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The State Department said two dozen of the emails exchanged on Hillary Rodham Clinton's private server included classified information — potentially undercutting the former first lady's claims that she did not handle classified information on the secret account. (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the 7th US China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) and 6th Consultation on People-to-People (CPE) at the U.S. State Department in Washington, Tuesday, June 23, 2015.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (credit)

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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff watches as Vice President Joe Biden puts his glass on a table after a toast during a luncheon in her honor, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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This wanted poster from the website of the U.S. State Department's Rewards For Justice program shows a mugshot of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, charged with leading the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed at least 35 hostages, including three Americans. The U.S military said on Monday, June 15, 2015 it likely killed the al-Qaida-linked militant leader when it launched airstrikes in eastern Libya over the weekend. (U.S. State Department Rewards For Justice via AP)

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Although Obama administration officials have expanded the initiative, the creation of the Office of Iranian Affairs inside the State Department was spearheaded by ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (Associated Press)

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Manned by a single career diplomat and three contractors inside State Department headquarters in Washington, the "Virtual U.S. Embassy Tehran" effort has grown since its 2011 inception to include multiple blogs, Instagram, Google Plus and Twitter accounts, as well as the Farsi-language Facebook page. (Facebook)

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The U.S. State Department confirmed May 29, 2015 with CNN that Islamic State fighter Gulmurod Khalimov was trained in the United State three times for counterterrorism instruction. (Image: CNN screenshot) ** FILE **

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2013 file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington. On Friday, the State Department posted 296 Benghazi-related emails from Hillary Clinton's private server. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2013 file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington. The State Department will release the first batch of emails from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state Friday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)