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A former US official who left the State Department in 2012 received a letter in August informing him that dozens of his emails sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were now being recategorized as classified

The letter marks one instance of what the Washington Post reported Saturday as a wide-scale reclassification of emails sent to Clinton's private email by as many as 130 current and former senior State Department officials.

"It has been determined that, at the time they were sent, a number of these emails contained classified information which were not property marked as such," the letter stated.The official told CNN that it appeared to him the emails were reviewed again, but with a stricter criteria because more emails were flagged in the second letter that the agency said should have been labeled classified.

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