Hundreds of Hillary Clinton's Benghazi emails released
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Published on May 22, 2015
The
State Department released its first round of emails from Hillary
Clinton's time as Secretary of State. CNN's Chris Frates reports.
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More money, more e-mails, more problems for Hillary Clinton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSH9oQqeUf0
Published on May 22, 2015
Each
week seems to bring more distracting news for Hillary Clinton's
presidential campaign, from previously undisclosed payments to the
Clinton Foundation to the e-mails she wrote about the 2012 attack in
Benghazi, Libya. What does it all mean this time? The Fix's Chris
Cillizza explains.
Benghazi information sent to Clinton's personal email
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NflWVubhQQk
Published on May 22, 2015
Hillary
Clinton had an email containing now-classified information about the
attack in Benghazi, Libya, sent to her personal email account. CNN's
Brianna Keilar reports.
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Hillary
Clinton's Emails About Benghazi Released
Posted:
05/22/2015 1:00 pm EDT Updated: 05/22/2015 3:59 pm EDT
The State
Department on Friday released nearly 300 of Hillary Clinton’s emails, which reveal new
details about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi,
Libya.
The emails
offer greater detail about the former secretary of state’s communications in
2011 and 2012 surrounding the events in Benghazi. However, the emails will only
tell part of the story, since they do not cover Clinton's in-person
communications with her staff. The former secretary of state noted in testimony
before a Senate committee in 2013 that she was in her office with staff late
into the night as the events in Benghazi were playing out.
Clinton
first released roughly 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department last
year, and requested they be made public.
Those
released Friday include what appears to be the last email sent to Clinton's
office by Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya. Stevens was among those
who later died in the attack on the embassy.
The email, dated July 7, 2012, was a response to an email from one of Clinton’s top advisers, Jake Sullivan. Sullivan started the email exchange with Stevens by sharing information from a “source," who detailed the atmosphere surrounding the July election in Libya and the transition to a popularly elected government after the fall of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi. In other comments that Sullivan shared with Stevens, the source -- whom other emails in Friday's release confirm to be Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton White House adviser -- describes Libya's shifting political circumstances as a “chaotic situation.”
In his response to Sullivan, Stevens detailed a tour of Libya's new parliament building with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and described the interim government as weak. However, he also characterized the atmosphere in Tripoli, Libya, as “festive.”
The email, dated July 7, 2012, was a response to an email from one of Clinton’s top advisers, Jake Sullivan. Sullivan started the email exchange with Stevens by sharing information from a “source," who detailed the atmosphere surrounding the July election in Libya and the transition to a popularly elected government after the fall of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi. In other comments that Sullivan shared with Stevens, the source -- whom other emails in Friday's release confirm to be Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton White House adviser -- describes Libya's shifting political circumstances as a “chaotic situation.”
In his response to Sullivan, Stevens detailed a tour of Libya's new parliament building with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and described the interim government as weak. However, he also characterized the atmosphere in Tripoli, Libya, as “festive.”
"The
gov’t declared today a holiday and people are driving around honking and waving
flags and making peace sign gestures,” Stevens wrote. “We visited several
polling stations where we found people patiently waiting in lines (gender
segregated) McCain was applauded and thanked for his support wherever we went.”
Sullivan
forwarded that email to Clinton. A number of the emails are similar, in that
they are exchanges between Clinton’s top advisers and those on the ground in
Libya and other levels of government that were then forwarded to Clinton
herself.
Clinton
addressed the release of the emails at a campaign stop in New Hampshire on
Friday.
"The
State Department had the vast majority of those anyway because they went to
what are called.gov accounts," she said. "I'm aware the FBI has asked
a portion of one email be held back that happens in the process of Freedom of
Information Act Responses, but that doesn't change the fact that all of the
information in the email was handled appropriately."
Clinton
added that she hopes the department will release more "as soon as
possible."
"I
understand there is a certain protocol that has to be followed. They are
following that. These that are being released today have been in the committee
jurisdiction, they were given to the committee some months ago and now finally
those are getting released," she said.
Rep. Trey
Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said in a
statement that the released emails "continue to reinforce the fact that
unresolved questions and issues remain as it relates to Benghazi."
State
Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf said in a statement that the emails "do
not change the essential facts or our understanding of the events before,
during, or after the attacks," which she said first became known nearly
two and half years ago.
CORRECTION:
This story previously misstated that Clinton released 55,000 emails to the
State Department. It was 55,000 pages of emails.
COMMENTS:
COMMENTS:
Soul Thief
2 weeks ago
It is just a matter of time before one of the countries best liars, Mrs. Clinton unmasks herself for what she really is. Without much help she will implode. All her lies, deceptions, half truths, misspoken statements will be her down fall. Hillary just can not get out of her own way. She has no concept of what those of us regular people go through, and she could care less. This coming train wreck will be epic to watch unfold.
