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Troubles continue to mount for Hillary Clinton, as the email scandal continues to engulf her campaign, and with it brings renewed interest by Vice President Joe Biden to run for president in 2016.

The controversy surrounding the email continues to grow with Clinton remaining deviant that she never sent or received classified documents, but on Monday that claim rung hollow, as classified material has been found among her emails.

The New York Times reported on Monday, a special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program — has endorsed a finding by the inspector general for the intelligence agencies that the emails contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.
The Clinton campaign and the State Department disputed these allegations, but a special review by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency —state otherwise as the emails contained the highest classification of “Top Secret” when they were sent in 2009 and 2011.

Clinton maintains that various agencies offer conflicting statements over what is considered classified and what is not.

“Our hope remains that these releases continue without being hampered by bureaucratic infighting among the intelligence community, and that the releases continue to be as inclusive and transparent as possible,” said Nick Merrill, a campaign spokesman.

State Department spokesman John Kirby reiterated what Merrill stated.

“Classification is rarely a black and white question, and it is common for the State Department to engage internally and with our interagency partners to arrive at the appropriate decision,” he said in a statement. “Very often both the State Department and the intelligence community acquire information on the same matter through separate channels. Thus, there can be two or more separate reports and not all of them based on classified means. At this time, any conclusion about the classification of the documents in question would be premature.”

Right now the FBI has Clinton’s private server in which she directed all communication to flow through, and is now determining if the server was hacked and was classified material sent or received through the server.

This whole episode has engulfed the Clinton campaign, with many Democratic donors growing increasingly nervous her campaign is imploding from the scandal as many now view her as untrustworthy and the first things that comes to many voters’ minds in focus groups is “liar”, hardly what any candidate wants to hear.

This scandal has opened the door for socialist Democratic Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders to overtake her in New Hampshire, and run only percentage points behind her in Iowa.

These latest developments has Vice President Joe Biden contemplating a run for the White House, the question does Biden have the stomach for it as he is still grieving over the loss of his son this past summer.

A Biden/Clinton race would severely shake up the Democratic primary, but he doesn’t have much time to make his decision. The longer he waits the harder it will be to put together a campaign apparatus, but Biden has run twice before for president, and would know how to put together such an organization.

If Biden did join the race for president he would have the backing of the president as there is no love loss, between the Clintons and the Obama’s.
The scandal involving Clinton will dog her all the way through into the primary, and if she is the Democratic nominee will surely be brought up repeatedly in the general election.

This will be an interesting election season.