State Department: Benghazi Panel Has 15 Hillary Clinton
Emails That We Don’t
by Breitbart News 25 Jun 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State
Department cannot find in its records all or part of 15 work-related
emails from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private
server that were released this week by a House panel investigating the 2012
attack in Benghazi, Libya,
officials said Thursday.
The emails all predate the Sept. 11 assault on the U.S.
diplomatic facility and include scant words written by Clinton herself, the
officials said. They consist of more in a series of would-be intelligence
reports passed to her by longtime political confidant Sidney Blumenthal, the officials
said.
Nevertheless, the fact that the State Department says it
can’t find them among emails she provided surely will raise new questions about
Clinton’s use of a personal email account and server while secretary of state
and whether she has provided the agency all of her work-related correspondence,
as she claims.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) 85%, chairman of the
Select Committee on Benghazi, released a statement Thursday saying, “This
confirms doubts about the completeness of Clinton’s self-selected public record
and raises serious questions about her decision to erase her personal server –
especially before it could be analyzed by an independent, neutral third-party
arbiter.”
When asked about the discrepancy, Nick Merrill, a Clinton
campaign spokesman, said, “She has turned over 55,000 pages of materials to the
State Department, including all emails in her possession from Mr. Blumenthal.”
Clinton is running for the 2016 Democratic presidential
nomination.
Clinton’s use of the non-governmental email while in office
was not publicly disclosed until earlier this year, after the committee sought
her correspondence related to the Benghazi attack. She says the single account
for personal and professional purposes was a matter of convenience, and says
all her work emails were included in the 55,000 pages of documents she later
handed over to the State Department. Emails of a personal nature were
destroyed, she says.
The State Department informed the Select Benghazi Committee
on Thursday that they are no longer certain that’s the case, according to
officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized
to speak publicly on the matter. The officials said Julia Frifield, the
assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, confirmed that nine
emails and parts of six others that the committee made public Monday couldn’t
be located in the department’s records.
As for 46 other, previously unreleased Libya-related
Blumenthal emails published by the committee, officials said all are in the
department’s records. They weren’t handed over to congressional investigators
because they had no relevance to events in Benghazi and did not correspond to
the committee’s request, the officials said. The officials added that they are
willing to provide emails outside the committee’s initial request, but warned
that doing so would require more time.
The emails missing from the State Department’s records
include missives from Blumenthal in which he sends media accounts about the
killing of one of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s sons, various reports on
internal politics among Libya’s rebels and news of the assassination of a
former Gadhafi minister in Vienna. The last email was sent Aug. 28, 2012, two
weeks before the Benghazi attack, and none focus particularly on the eastern
Libyan city.
Clinton’s responses are brief. In one from August 2011, she
tells Blumenthal she will be in Paris the next day to meet rebel leaders and
says she had “to resort to new iPad” because she didn’t have electricity or
Blackberry coverage after Hurricane Irene.
In another from March 2012, she passes on an adviser’s
skepticism regarding one of Blumenthal’s reports about political intrigue in
post-Gadhafi Libya, saying: “This strain credulity based on what I know. Any
other info about it?”
And after a long August 2012 note from Blumenthal about
Libya’s new interim President Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, Clinton writes:
“Another keeper – thanks and please keep `em coming.” Four days later, she
responds to a follow-up reports about el-Magariaf, saying: “Fascinating. I had
a very good call w him.”
Clinton’s critics are likely to focus less on the substance
of the emails than on the fact that they weren’t shared with the State
Department.
Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, has pressed for an
explanation of why Blumenthal gave the committee emails not previously shared
by the State Department. The suggestion has been that either the department or
Clinton was hiding something.
Gowdy said Thursday that the emails show Clinton “was
soliciting and regularly corresponding with Sidney Blumenthal – who was passing
unvetted intelligence information about Libya from a source with a financial
interest in the country. It just so happens these emails directly contradict
her public statement that the messages from Blumenthal were unsolicited.”
Clinton aides say her submission to the department included
all emails from Blumenthal and a dozen more exchanges that weren’t in the
records he provided the House committee. They said some from Blumenthal’s
record, which was provided as a Microsoft Word document, couldn’t be confirmed
as having been sent as emails.
State Department officials also questioned the provenance of
some exchanges because they weren’t formatted as emails.
Hillary
Rodham Clinton
Hillary Rodham
Clinton was a director at the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and is a friend
& confidant of Sidney Blumenthal.
Note: Sidney
Blumenthal was a consultant for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, is a friend & confidant of Hillary Rodham Clinton, a consultant
for the American Bridge 21st Century,
and a consultant for Media Matters.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for
the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), a
board member for the International
Crisis Group, was a contributor for the American Bridge 21st Century, and the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Media Matters, the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank).
Thomas R.
Pickering is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a co-chair for the International Crisis Group, a distinguished
fellow at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), was the under secretary for the U.S.
Department of State, the chairman of review board that investigated the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi,
Libya in 2013, and a trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York.
J.
Christopher Stevens was killed in the 2012
attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and was the U.S. ambassador
for Libya.
Newton
N. Minow is an honorary trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel
at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank), the
Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank), and the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a trustee at the Rockefeller Foundation, is a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Margaret A.
Hamburg is the VP for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), the commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), David A. Hamburg’s daughter, and was a trustee at the Rockefeller Foundation.
Rockefeller
Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
and the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea
Clinton Foundation.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton was a director at the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and is a friend
& confidant of Sidney Blumenthal.
David A. Hamburg
is Margaret A. Hamburg’s father, an adviser
for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), the president emeritus for the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and an advisory board member for the Global Security Institute.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank), the
Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank), and the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Mikhail Gorbachev
is an advisory board member for the Global
Security Institute, the founder for Green
Cross International, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Green Cross International
Ted Turner, is an honorary board member for Green Cross International in the USA.
Ted
Turner is an honorary board member for Green
Cross International in the USA, a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of CNN, and the chairman for the United Nations Foundation.
Catherine A.
Bertini is a council member for the United
Nations Association, and was a member of review board that investigated the
2012 attack on U.S. consulate in
Benghazi, Libya in
2013.
J.
Christopher Stevens was killed in the 2012
attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and was the U.S. ambassador
for Libya.
United
Nations Foundation was a funder for the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton was a director at the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and is a friend
& confidant of Sidney Blumenthal.
Charles B. Curtis
was the EVP & COO for the United
Nations Foundation, the president & COO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and is a member of the Secretary of State's International Security
Advisory Board.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Joseph Cirincione
was a director for nonproliferation for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and is a member of the Secretary of State's International Security
Advisory Board.
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