Posted on 09/25/2015 12:04:11 PM PDT by doug from upland
Foggy Bottom uncovers additional messages related to the oft-investigated attack. Why didn’t they find the e-mails sooner?
The State Department has said over and over again that it turned over all of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi-related emails to the committee investigating the 2012 attack.
Turns out, that wasn’t quite the case. Foggy Bottom mistakenly failed to produce a “small number” of those emails, a senior State Department official told The Daily Beast.
“Following our second review of former Secretary Clinton’s emails… the Department is producing a small number of emails relating to Benghazi,” the official said. The official could not say precisely how many Benghazi-related Clinton emails the State Department missed in its original review, but characterized it as a “handful.”
The original review through 55,000 pages of Hillary Clinton emails involved hard copies of the emails, which had to be hand-sorted on desks in the State Department. These documents have since been digitized, and in recent weeks the State Department did a second, electronic review of the emails in its possession—and found a number of Benghazi-related emails that it did not previously produce.
The State Department informed the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Friday that it would deliver to them approximately 925 new Hillary Clinton emails relating to Benghazi and Libya, among them a small number of Benghazi-related emails that it had missed.
These 925 new emails fall into three broad categories:
1. Benghazi-related emails that the State Department missed in its original review;
2. Hillary Clinton emails related to Libya which the State Department assessed not to be directly related to Benghazi. This makes up the vast majority of the 925 emails being released;
3. Benghazi-related emails that the State Department had previously assessed (PDF) to be of a “personal nature and unrelated to the former Secretary’s official capacity.”
State Department to Hand Over Documents to Benghazi Committee
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The State Department believes that by producing emails related to Libya but not explicitly related to Benghazi, it is going above and beyond what it has been expressly been asked to provide to the committee.
Hillary Clinton herself is expected to testify before the Benghazi committee on October 22, the official said. “To accommodate that, the Department undertook another review of the emails provided by former Secretary Clinton to provide such Libya-related emails, and to ensure all Benghazi-related materials have been provided to the Committee.”
But there was also pressure from outside groups to produce these emails. Earlier this week POLITICO reported on a Freedom of Information Act filing by the conservative group Citizens United, which describes approximately a dozen Benghazi-related emails that have been withheld from the group's previous document requests. Most of these documents also appear to have been withheld from the Benghazi committee, the news organization said.
The official could not say precisely how many Benghazi-related Clinton emails the State Department missed in its original review, but characterized it as a “handful.”
The new release of emails related to Benghazi and Libya dwarfs the original number of Benghazi-specific emails previously released by the State Department. The Department had previously provided the Benghazi Committee with 296 emails specifically related to Benghazi back in February.
“The documents provided today do not alter the fundamental facts known about the Benghazi attacks,” the senior State Department official told The Daily Beast.
The State Department has already released more than 13,000 pages of Hillary Clinton emails as part of an ongoing Freedom of Information Act process, and will publicly release additional documents next Wednesday. The State Department has thus far provided 32 witnesses for interviews and over 70,000 pages of documents.
*APPLAUSE*
Isn’t her code name with the Secret Service, ‘Foggy Bottom?”
LOL! I crack myself UP! :)
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I wonder if this has anything to do with boner quitting today?
The next SecState..hopefully John Bolton, has to go in there and clean the place out..top to bottom..get rid of the top 250 people there..give or take...and oh yea, while he's at it..dig through all the files and emails they're still hiding..and release them all..and bury Obama, Clinton, Kerry, et al with them..
I think the State Department would be working much more quickly if Kerry was considering another run in 2016.
So give her a break, she was named after a dude, and she dodged sniper fire in Bosnia!
I think you are right.
Bolton would never be approved by the RATS. They would filibuster. He may have to be a recess appointment.
Yeah. And it’s a Friday. How ‘bout that?
Hmm, Benghazi-related emails of a personal nature? Hmm, did she have a yoga session scheduled for her next visit to Benghazi? Hmmm...
Timing. She must not be held accountable while 0 can still give her a pardon !
How long before the indictments begin ????
Someone at State is nervous about what the FBI might recover off of Hill’s server.
Then change the Senate rules...if a new GOP president can’t have his choice for SecState..after all of Zero’s clowns that got through the GOP..both in the minority AND as the majority..then screw McConnell...toss him out..
Read the article
So that nothing will happen. Isn’t that going to be the end result? She ain’t going away sad to say. No RICO charges(clinton glowball initiative to enrich the clintons), no nuthin’.
Hmm, Benghazi-related emails of a personal nature? Hmm, did she have a yoga session scheduled for her next visit to Benghazi? Hmmm...
Maybe they were going to have Chelsea's bridal shower there?
“We didn’t find these until we realized we might get thrown in prison and then we found them.”
If there really are Benghazi emails that she destroyed while claiming they were personal, this is the most serious revelation yet.
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