Posted on 06/15/2015 5:47:29 PM PDT by McGruff
House GOP Benghazi investigators have discovered additional Libya communications between Sidney Blumenthal and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a congressional source told POLITICO — suggesting that either the State Department or the 2016 Democratic presidential contender withheld correspondence the panel had subpoenaed.
Blumenthal — a longtime Clinton family friend who is set to testify before the committee behind closed doors Tuesday morning — recently gave the House Select Committee on Benghazi his Libya-related emails after the panel had quietly subpoenaed them.
Among those were several emails concerning Libya between Blumenthal and Clinton that had not been previously turned over by State. Clinton has said she gave all her work-related correspondence, kept on her personal email server, to the State Department. State was then tasked with going through the emails and giving the panel relevant correspondence. Department officials turned up about 300 emails related to Benghazi.
The source did not know whether Clinton had turned the emails over to State and State did not provide them, or whether Clinton failed to hand over the correspondence.
A State Department spokesman downplayed the discovery and said the agency gave the panel what it asked for.
“The Department is working diligently to publish to its public website all of the emails received from former Secretary Clinton through the FOIA process,” Alec Gerlach said in a statement. “We provided the Committee with a subset of documents that matched its request and will continue to work with them going forward. Secretary Kerry has been clear that the State Department will be both transparent and thorough in its obligations to the public on this matter.”
Blumenthal’s attorney, James Cole, and Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The committee has subpoenaed Clinton’s Libya-related emails. But because she used a personal server, her lawyer decided which emails constituted “official” communications and provided them to the State Department before they were released to the committee and publicly.
That nice Mrs. Clinton seems so scrupulously honest that I just can’t BELIEVE that she would do that!
One of the Clinton methods was to testify secretly in ways that led investigators into public relations traps.
I would not trust Blumenthal for a second.
What is Congress gonna do about it?
Answer: Use the IRS to attack and coerce anyone
discussing it, and the TEA Party.
I too am ‘shocked’ hillary is not being arrested and placed in an orange suit
Give this woman enough rope, and she’ll hang the entire Democrat Party.
yes, Americans get ‘fail’; hillary receives ‘millions’ or ‘billions’
Hopefully they can make him squeal like a pig.
wish none of them were bought and paid for but they are ... regrettably ...
Can’t wait to see the next Frontline dealing with Sidney Blumenthal... /sarcasm
hey Atlanta, am in no hurry ... just line it up, please.
the one thing am liking the most is ‘Cinnamon Bill’
There must be a simple explanation for this honest mistake...
These emails must have been dual-purpose, and were talking about what to bring to the baby shower, so they got deleted.
Hillary is utilizing 0dungo’s tactics.. Just ignore your high crimes as if nothing is wrong and not only will the media ignore it, Congress will ignore it too. WE’RE SCREWED.
It’s all Kabuki Theater. When the government as a collective entity stopped recognizing the Rule of Law, its no surprise its individual players don’t either.
my favorite question would be, "are you sure you want to go on national television and on record as saying that you were such an incompetent administrator that you didn't even do something asnfundamental as have backups?"
nothing will happen. Those in power won’t do anything, and those that put them in power won’t do anything. It will be read about, discussed on blog sites, ridiculed by Krauthammer, Michael Savage, Gowdy, foot stomping, grandstanding for the congressional record, then it will start all over again like a picking a scab, over and over, scarring the nation until it’s ugly and unrecognizable.
You mean that sweet old kind caring listening grandmother is really a scheming liar?
The closest thing I read approaching an administrator was that a retired ex-CIA tech set the thing up on Bill Clinton’s server. Does that mean that the two of them would necessarily have to share the same administrator?
Sorry, I haven’t a clue about tech or administrators.
And what happened to that declaration that CLOUD could retrieve everything. Is that even true?
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