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BREAKING NEWS: State Dept. Says It Has Libya Emails Clinton Didn’t Hand Over
Despite claims by Hillary Rodham Clinton that she provided the State Department with all of her work-related emails from the personal account she used exclusively when she was in office, the department has received several related to Libya that she had not handed over, according to officials at the agency. The emails that Mrs. Clinton did not give to the State Department were between her and her longtime confidant and adviser Sidney Blumenthal. He did not work for the department at the time, but was routinely sending her intelligence memos on Libya.
          
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State Dept. Says It Has Libya Emails Clinton Didn’t Hand Over

Thursday, June 25, 2015
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Despite claims by Hillary Rodham Clinton that she provided the State Department with all of her work-related emails from the personal account she used exclusively when she was in office, the department has received several related to Libya that she had not handed over, according to officials at the agency.
The emails that Mrs. Clinton did not give to the State Department were between her and her longtime confidant and adviser Sidney Blumenthal. He did not work for the department at the time, but was routinely sending her intelligence memos on Libya.

There are 15 emails that Mr. Blumenthal gave to the House committee looking into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that the State Department cannot find among the emails that Mrs. Clinton handed over last year, according to a State Department official. The House committee gave those emails to the State Department this month. A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton did not return an email seeking comment.

There are 15 emails that Mr. Blumenthal gave to the House committee looking into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that the State Department cannot find among the emails that Mrs. Clinton handed over last year, according to a State Department official. The House committee gave those emails to the State Department this month.

Mrs. Clinton has said that she provided the State Department with about 30,000 emails that were related to her work as secretary of state. She said that she deleted roughly the same number of emails from the account, saying those messages “were private, personal” ones about her daughter’s wedding, her mother’s funeral, family vacations and yoga.

“She has turned over 55,000 pages of materials to the State Department, including all emails in her possession from Mr. Blumenthal,” said Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to The Associated Press.

Questions about whether Mrs. Clinton gave the State Department all of her work-related emails emerged in recent weeks. On June 12, Mr. Blumenthal gave the House committee about 60 emails related to Libya that he exchanged with Mrs. Clinton.

Mr. Blumenthal handed the emails over in response to a subpoena from the committee. Many of the emails that Mr. Blumenthal divulged had not been given to the committee by the State Department, which has taken the lead in responding to requests for documents related to the attacks.

Concerned that the State Department had withheld the emails from the committee, its chairman, Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, sent a letter to the State Department asking why the panel had not been given the emails and whether Mrs. Clinton had handed them over to the department.

The State Department then went through the emails that Mrs. Clinton had turned over, discovering that there were some that Mr. Blumenthal had given to the committee that Mrs. Clinton had not handed over.

Sidney Blumenthal, Hillary Clinton’s Confidant, Turns Over Memos on Libya

 
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