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ByKenThomas The Associated Press WASHINGTON The State Department opened the new year by falling short of a court-ordered goal from last year to have out by now 82 percent of Hillary Clin- ton's emails from her years as secretary of state. The mountain of her cor- respondence in the pub- lic eye grew Thursday with the release of 5,500 more pages of her emails, thou- sands of pages short of the goal. Among them, portions of 275 emails were retro- actively classified, the de- partment revealed, keep- ing questions alive about whether Clinton, now a Democratic presidential candidate, put sensitive in- formation at risk by using her personal email account for business and running it on a private server at her New York home. Clinton has said she didn't send or receive in- formation that was classi- fied at the time via her per- sonal email account. The State Department said it "worked diligently" to meet the court's release schedule but could not do so because of the large number of documents involved and the holidays. More Clinton emails are to be disclosed next week and all of them designated for release are supposed to be out by the end of January. In all, the State Depart- ment said 1,274 of Clin- ton's emails have been ret- roactively classified since the department started reviewing them for re- lease. In response, Repub- lican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said: "Hillary Clinton's de- cision to put secrecy over national security by exclu- sively operating off of a se- cret email server looks even more reckless." Two emails released Thursday were designated "secret," the second-high- est level of classification, which applies to informa- tion that could cause seri- ous damage to national se- curity if released. Most of the emails were classified "confidential," which is the lowest level of classification. A sampling from the lat- est batch: Emailuse Clinton and one of her closest aides, Jake Sullivan, had an exchange in Septem- ber 2010 that showed con- siderable confusion over her email practices. "I'm never sure which of my emails you receive, so pls let me know if you re- ceive this one and on which address you did," she wrote to Sullivan on a Sunday morning. A few hours later Sulli- van responded: "I have just received this email on my personal account, which I check much less frequently than my State Department account. I have not received any emails from you on my State account in recent days — for example, I did not get the email you sent to me and (Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Jeff) Feltman on the Egyptian custody case. Something is very wrong with the con- nection there." Sullivan added, "I sup- pose a near-term fix is to just send messages to this account — my personal ac- count — and I will check it more frequently." Soros Billionaire George So- ros, a major donor to lib- eral causes, confided to a former Clinton aide that he made the wrong choice in supporting Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries over Clinton. Soros told Neera Tanden during a dinner sponsored by Democracy Alliance, a liberal group, that he "re- gretted his decision in the primary — he likes to admit mistakes when he makes them and that was one of them," Tanden told Clinton in a May 2012 email. "He then extolled his work with you from your time as First Lady on." Tanden also said Soros had been "impressed that he can always call/meet" with Clinton on policy is- sues but he hadn't yet met with Obama. Soros has been a major donor to Pri- orities USA, a pro-Clinton Democratic super PAC. Situation room photo Clinton expressed out- rage at a Hasidic Jewish newspaper that airbrushed her and another woman out of a famous photograph of officials in the White House Situation Room watch- ing the raid on Osama Bin Laden. The original photo had shown Clinton seated at the table, her hand covering her mouth. Counterterror- ism director Audrey Toma- son had also been pictured, standing at the back of the room. Both were blacked out in the newspaper's re- production of the photo- graph. "The Jerusalem Post re- ported today that a NY Ha- sidicpaperDerZeitungpub- lished the sit room photo w/o me (or Audrey T) pho- toshopped out perhaps be- cause no woman should be in such a place of power or that I am dressed immod- estly!!" Clinton wrote in an email with the subject line "Unbelievable." The email was sent May 8, 2011, to aides, including Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, and to her daugh- ter, Chelsea, under the alias Diane Reynolds. Pecking order Philippe Reines, Clinton's senior communications ad- viser, developed an elabo- rate flow chart during the summer of 2012 to deter- mine a specific pecking or- der: Who gets to ride with Hillary? In an email to a group of Clinton advisers, Reines said longtime aide Huma Abedin should ride with Clinton under most cir- cumstances, with deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan joining Clinton on other occasions. Capricia Mar- shall, a Clinton insider and the chief of protocol, was also listed as someone who should ride with the secre- tary of state. Missed deadline Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took note of the timing of the latest release on Twit- ter, writing: "Do you believe that The State Department, on NEW YEAR'S EVE, just released more of Hillary's e- mails. They just want it all to end. BAD!" But Trump's tweet was off-base. A federal judge set the schedule for the release of the emails, not Clinton or the department. COURT-ORDERED GOAL State Department short of target on email By Kevin Freking The Associated Press HONOLULU President Barack Obama is looking for ways to keep guns out of the hands of "a danger- ous few" without depend- ing on Congress to pass a law on the fraught subject of gun control. He's says he'll meet his attorney general, Lo- retta Lynch, on Monday to see what executive ac- tions might be possible. Steps to strengthen back- ground checks could come this week. "The gun lobby is loud and well organized in its defense of effortlessly available guns for anyone," Obama said in his weekly radio address. "The rest of us are going to have to be just as passionate and well organized in our defense of our kids." He said he gets so many letters from parents, teach- ers and children about the "epidemic of gun violence" that he can't "sit around and do nothing." Obama recently di- rected staff at the White House to look into poten- tial executive actions. Currently, federally li- censed firearms dealers are required to seek back- ground checks on potential firearm purchasers. But ad- vocacy groups say some of the people who sell fire- arms at gun shows are not federally licensed, increas- ing the chance of sales to customers prohibited by law from purchasing guns. A source familiar with the administration's ef- forts said Obama is ex- pected to take executive action next week that would set a "reasonable threshold" for when sellers have to seek a background check. That person didn't know whether it would be based on the number of guns sold or revenue gen- erated through gun sales. The source, a member of a gun control advocacy group, was not authorized to discuss details before the announcement and spoke on condition of anonymity. White House officials won't confirm the timing. In his efforts to work around a Congress that has often been politically gridlocked, Obama has made aggressive use of executive power, partic- ularly on immigration. It has been an increasingly effective presidential tool. And while legal scholars are divided on whether Obama has accelerated or merely continued a drift of power toward the ex- ecutive branch, there's lit- tle debate that he's paved a path for his successor. Depending on who suc- ceeds him, many Obama backers could rue the day they cheered his "pen-and- phone" campaign to get past Republican opposition in Congress. The unilateral steps he took to raise envi- ronmental standards and ease the threat of deporta- tion for millions of immi- grants in the U.S. illegally may serve as precedent for moves they won't cheer. The National Rifle Asso- ciation opposes expanded background check sys- tems. The organization's Institute for Legislative Action says studies have shown that people sent to state prison because of gun crimes typically get guns through theft, the black market or family and friends. Also, many purchases by criminals are made from straw purchasers who pass background checks. "No amount of back- ground checks can stop these criminals," says the group's website. Obama has consistently expressed frustration af- ter mass shootings, say- ing it shouldn't be so easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm to get his or her hands on a gun. EXECUTIVE ACTIONS Obama seeks possible unilateral steps on guns STEVENSENNE—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens during a campaign event. 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