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State has not turned over 2 Benghazi-related emails to Congress
The State Department has not turned over to congressional Benghazi investigators an email exchange between Hillary Clinton and top aides who were prepping the former secretary of state to discuss the 2012 terrorist attack with a U.S. senator.The House Select Committee on Benghazi has confirmed to POLITICO that it does not have copies of two Sept. 29, 2012, emails between Clinton and her top policy staffer Jake Sullivan, chief of staff Cheryl Mills and spokesman Philippe Reines. The emails -- which surfaced last week in a State Department response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by a conservative group -- also mention the talking points for Susan Rice, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, according to a description of the messages in court documents. In the days after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that left four Americans dead, Rice had blamed the tragedy on an anti-Muslim video. Hill Republicans would subsequently accuse the Obama administration of misleading the pub  lic about how security at the U.S. compound broke down.State would neither confirm nor deny that the emails had been withheld, other than to refer to the court filing, which argues certain agency deliberations are exempt from disclosure. More at link. Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-07-14 |
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