Source: Justice Department alerted to concerns over Clinton emails

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators have alerted the Justice Department to a "potential compromise of classified information" arising from the private email server used by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in her home, a department official said today.

A memo signed this week by the inspector general of the intelligence community to members of Congress said the IG's office had identified "potentially hundreds of classified emails" among the 30,000 that Clinton had provided and that are now being processed for public release.

None of the emails were marked as classified at the time they were sent or received, but some should have been handled as such and sent on a secure computer network, according to the letter to congressional oversight committees from I. Charles McCullough III.

Clinton, campaigning in New York, commented briefly on the issue. She said, "We are all accountable to the American people to get the facts right, and I will do my part but I'm also going to stay focused on the issues."

The inspector general's office said it raised concerns to FBI counterintelligence officials that "these emails exist on at least one private server and thumb drive with classified information and those are not in the government's possession," said Andrea Wilson, a spokeswoman for the office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community.