As Iowa’s caucus-goers prepare to bundle up and do battle for their favorite candidates, Hillary Clinton this morning again brushed off the growing scandal over her private email server and handling of classified information.

Appearing on CNN’s New Day Clinton insisted “there is nothing new” about recent revelations, declaring that the Intelligence Community’s “top secret” classification of 22 of her emails was little more than a “dispute about retroactive classification.”

Not so, says a U.S. government official who’s seen the 22 emails. The official told Fox News the messages contained “operational intelligence,” and their presence on Hillary’s unsecure, personal email system jeopardized “sources, methods and lives.” Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan) meanwhile suggested to Fox News that the military and intelligence communities have had to change operations as a result of Clinton’s actions.

“Anytime our national security team determines that there’s a potential breach, that is information that might potentially have fallen into the hands of the Iranians, or the Russians, or the Chinese, or just hackers, that they begin to operate in a manner that assumes that information has in fact gotten out,” he said.

Newly released emails also indicate the State Department proposed creating a “standalone” personal computer in Hillary’s office operating on a separate network. This computer, State Dept. official Lewis Lukens wrote in January of 2009, would be “connected to the internet (but not through our system) to enable her to check emails from her desk.” Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills told Lukens the standalone computer could pose a problem because Hillary “doesn’t know how to use a computer to do email — only [Blackberry].” Let that one sink in a minute. Lukens responded that it “would not take much training to get her up to speed.”

As The Hill notes, “Critics of Clinton’s arrangement have tried to force to clarify whether her private email account and server were expressly permitted by department officials.” The man who was the State Department’s Inspector General from 2005 to 2008 said Sunday that Hillary’s email setup was “all planned in advance.” Howard J. Krongard notes that Clinton was never given a state.gov email address. “It tells me this was premeditated,” he told the New York Post, “And this eliminates claims by the State Department that the were unaware of her private email server until later.”

Krongard went onto predict that despite whatever criminality that may have occurred, “it will never get to an indictment.” He notes any criminal referral from the FBI “will have to go through four loyal Democrat women”: Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell; Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; Attorney General Loretta Lynch; and top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.

President Obama himself is now facing new questions about his involvement in the Clinton email arrangement. The State Department said Friday it would not release 18 email chains between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Obama as part of a longstanding practice of protecting Presidential communications.  However, the existence of any email between Clinton and Obama struck Twitchy among others as curious, because after news of Hillary’s private email server broke, President Obama told 60 Minutes this:

Steve Kroft: Did you know about Hillary Clinton’s use of private email server–

President Barack Obama: No.

Steve Kroft: –while she was Secretary of State?

President Barack Obama: No.

Obama said he only got wind that Hillary used a private email address through media reports. RedState asks bluntly, “Did Obama lie about when he discovered Hillary used private server for emails?” Perhaps Obama didn’t notice the emails weren’t coming from a secure government email address. Even that raises a question: How did he know that hdr22clintonemail.com or [email protected] or whatever address she used was really Hillary Clinton?

All this had Breitbart this morning noting with irony a comment made by Hillary during her interview with CNN: “I’m asking people to look at them,” she said, “and I’m asking people to hold me accountable.”

The Iowa caucuses get underway at 7 p.m. Central time.