CBS News: Emails Show Hillary ‘Was Deeply Engaged in the Minutiae of Diplomacy’

PELLEY: “Newly released e-mails show Hillary Clinton and her State Department staff were sometimes frustrated when they couldn't share classified documents over her private internet server. The department is in the process of releasing about 30,000 messages after it was discovered that Clinton used her home-based server for official business while secretary of state. Nancy cords went through the latest batch.”

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CORDES (voice-over): “The 4,400 e-mails reveal a secretary of state who was deeply engaged in the minutia of diplomacy and fascinated by Washington intrigue. ‘Gefilte fish: Where are we on this?’ She asked the pair of aides in 2010. The seemingly cryptic e-mail referred to nine containers of carp caught up in a trade dispute. From long time confidant Sidney Blumenthal, she got critiques of D.C. power brokers. Then White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod has enough to do fixing the domestic messes he's made. House Speaker John Boehner, he wrote, ‘was an alcoholic and lazy’. Boehner’s office responded in a statement today saying, ‘the only reason this mishandling of classified information has been exposed is because of Speaker Boehner’s decision to create the Select Committee on Benghazi.’ One hundred and twenty five of the e-mails in this latest batch have been retroactively marked classified because the information in them is now considered too sensitive to release to the public.”

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