Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
Kenneth P. VogelHere's Hillary, anxious to talk to the King of Morocco, whose govt-owned phosphate co would give $6M+ to @ClintonFdn. http://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRC_Email_1_296/HRCH2/DOC_0C05739692/C05739692.pdf … https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/601831412770168832
I think my favorite of the #HillaryClinton #Benghazi emails is this one: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2086095-c05739545.html …
0 retweets0 favoritesReplyRetweetFavoriteMoreOn Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Ian Sams <isams@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:--http://www.vox.com/2015/5/22/8646231/clinton-aide-libya-benghazi
Benghazi emails reveal Clinton team thought Libya was her marquee achievement
Updated by Jonathan Allen on May 22, 2015, 3:00 p.m. ET
A top State Department official boasted of Hillary Clinton's "leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country's Libya policy from start to finish" a little more than a year before the attack that killed four Americans at a US compound in Benghazi.
That assessment, offered up in an email from Clinton Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan to fellow State Department aides Cheryl Mills and Victoria Nuland, is contained in a trove of emails the agency turned over Friday to the House committee investigating the Benghazi attack.
Written in August 2011, it shows that Clinton's aides once viewed her role in the US-backed intervention in Libya as a marquee achievement.
"HRC has been a critical voice on Libya in administration deliberations, at NATO, and in contact group meetings," Sullivan wrote. "She was instrumental in securing the authorization, building the coalition, and tightening the noose around Qadhafi and his regime."
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Sullivan also recounts the key days of diplomacy in March 2011 that led to the creation of the coalition that attacked Gaddafi.
And Clinton's efforts on Capitol Hill.
Thirteen months later, the killing of four Americans in Libya, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, would make it impossible for Clinton to cast the US-backed intervention as a success or an achievement on her part.
From: Ian Sams [mailto:isams@hillaryclinton.com]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 3:15 PM
To: Tyson Brody
Cc: Josh Schwerin; Cheryl Mills; Karen Finney; Jennifer Palmieri; Brian Fallon; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Jake Sullivan
Subject: RE: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
The more it goes in this direction, the better…
The Clinton team praises Journal's Monica Langley
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By DYLAN BYERS |
5/22/15 2:51 PM EDT
From the newly released batch of Hillary Clinton emails, here is correspondence from Oct. 11, 2012, among senior State Department adviser Phillipe Reines, Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides and State Department Communications Director Caroline Adler following an interview Secretary Clinton gave to The Wall Street Journal's Monica Langley:
Reines:
Tom, was an awesome interview. Hrc was great, but I was really impressed by how good of an interviewer Monica is. One of the best I've ever seen. But she was her usual wacky self and pulled one move that I can't even describe so I'll let Caroline do - since you'll appreciate it given your familiarity with Monica Langley, Hillary Clinton, and the Secretary's chair arrangement in her outer office.
Adler:
This will be exciting when it's FOIA'd ...but will give you a sense of the interaction:
HRC. Monica, have a seat
::HRC motions toward a chair situated an appropriate distance from her preferred spot on the couch::Monica: ll!!Sure!!!
::Monica proceeds to drag her chair within inches of the Secretary --leaning in even further::Interview proceeds... and about midway.
Monica: Oh Hillary...2016 '16 '16
::Monica grabs HRO's knee::HRC laughs awkwardly — glances at Philippe
Monica: ::leaning in further::
Oh Hillary...what do you eat? drink? dream about when you sleep?
::Monica again touches HRC's leg::::Everybody laughs awkwardly — Philippe hardly able to contain himself::
Monica: They think I'm so funny (looking at Philippe and me.) HILL, can I ride on your lap to the White House?
...this went for about 51 minutes And I agree with Philippe- whatever she does, it works. It was a really great interview.
Nides:
I may go and throw up since I am laughing so hard
Reines (cc'ing Sec. Clinton):
+Hrc
Tom, she moved that yellow chair as close as it went. Knee to knee. Amazed she didn't try knee in between knee. And if that wasn't enough, she leaned forward. More like a pivot, as far as her torso could fold forward to minimize the space between their heads. Was like the dental hygienist rolling around the floor to get the best access to your mouth depending on what tooth she was trying to get access to I've never seen a Westerner invade her space like that And even the non Westerners I've seen do it based on cultural differences have been only briefly to greet, This went on like that for 51 minutes - unacceptable in any culture. I don't even think you see that behavior among any type of mammal. The touching the leg and repeatedly calling her 'Hillary' was just gravy.
But it was wonderful. One of the best interviews I've ever witnessed. Wish it were on live tv.
From: Ian Sams [mailto:isams@hillaryclinton.com]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 3:11 PM
To: Tyson Brody
Cc: Josh Schwerin; Cheryl Mills; Karen Finney; Jennifer Palmieri; Brian Fallon; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Jake Sullivan
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Huma to Hillary: "I'm giving you credit for inspiring the "peaceful" protests." pic.twitter.com/DYrPSwEaHh
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From: Tyson Brody [mailto:tbrody@hillaryclinton.com]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 2:54 PM
To: Ian Sams
Cc: Josh Schwerin; Cheryl Mills; Karen Finney; Jennifer Palmieri; Brian Fallon; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Jake Sullivan
Subject: Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/601822415807770625
@lachlan
HRC in Hard Choices: "My thoughts immediately went to Chris" (Stevens) HRC email on 9/11/12 asks abt "Chris Smith"
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Ian Sams <isams@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:
Looks to have just been response to the clip. Email chain at bottom.
Hillary on Request From Chris Stevens Dad Not To Politicize Benghazi: 'Very Nice'
3:27 PM, MAY 22, 2015 • BY MICHAEL WARREN
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Hillary Clinton was forwarded an article a month after the terrorist attack on Benghazi that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens that quoted Stevens's father. In the October 14, 2012, Bloomberg article, Jan Stevens, the late ambassador's father, was quoted saying that it would be "abhorrent" to make his son's death a political issue in the presidential campaign.
According to the State Department's release of several emails sent to Clinton's private email address, the link to the article was forwarded on the same day to State Department employee Chris Hensman, who forwarded it to Clinton advisers Cheryl Mills and Philippe Reines. Mills forwarded that email to Clinton.
"Very nice," replied Clinton. "Can you talk?" See a sreenshot of the email below:
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From: Josh Schwerin [mailto:jschwerin@hillaryclinton.com]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 2:41 PM
To: Cheryl Mills
Cc: Karen Finney; Ian Sams; Jennifer Palmieri; Brian Fallon; Tyson Brody; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Jake Sullivan
Subject: Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
The image posted on twitter just shows the top of the email. Wondering if there's any additional context that they cropped out
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Cheryl Mills <cheryl.mills@gmail.com> wrote:
What do you mean?
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Josh Schwerin <jschwerin@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:
Can we get the rest of this email?
In response to email w/ this story "Bloomberg: Libyan Ambassador's Death Not a Political Issue, Says Dad", @HillaryClinton says "very nice"
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Karen Finney <kfinney@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:
This is from the Gowdy release - per the question from Jon Allen at Reuters do we want to respond ?
He makes 3 points, reporters picking up:
1) the emails highlight "investigative questions".
2) Emails show the Secretary had been warned about Benghazi
3) There are gaps in what the committee has. (Note that the examples he cites happened before the actual attack)
I suggest we don't respond to Gowdy and refer Allen to HRC remarks.
Thoughts?
Background Information on Released Emails:
Among the emails the Select Committee finds highlight the existence of significant investigative questions:
· September 24, 2012—“Compiled protest and Benghazi Statements.” A document that reinforces issues relating to characterization of the motives for the attacks. For example, Jake Sullivan noted, “You never said spontaneous or characterized the motives. In fact you were careful in your first statement to say we were assessing motive and method. The way you treated the video in the Libya context was to say that some sought to *justify* the attack on that basis.”
· August 24, 2012 — “H: Intel on new Libya president. Sid.” In this document two and a half weeks before the attacks, Jake Sullivan writes to the Secretary, “Some warning signs,” in response to the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi, which forced the Red Cross to suspend activities, and reinforces questions about what was done in response to these warnings.
· April 4, 2012—“Secretary Clinton’s Leadership on Libya.” This document characterizes Secretary Clinton’s ownership of U.S. policy in Libya.
· April 8, 2011—“UK game playing; new rebel strategists; Egypt moves in. Sid” In this document, Secretary Clinton responded to a Blumenthal memo with, “Fyi. The idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered.”
There are several instances of State personnel notifying the Secretary about security concerns and issues:
· April 10, 2011 – Forwarded email about deteriorating security
· April 22, 2011 – Request for continuous coverage in Benghazi, “security permitting”
· April 24, 2011 – Forwarded email about hotels being targeted
· June 10, 2011 – Email including information about credible threat info against hotel and that personnel are evacuating to alternate locations
· August 21, 2011 – Email regarding concerns about Islamist militias
· January 9, 2012 – Email stating that disarming and reintegrating of militias isn’t going as well as they had hoped
· February 24, 2012 – Email stating that militia rivalries are dangerous
· August 24, 2012 – Email stating that there are “some warning signs”
The Committee also has an interest in understanding the inexplicable gaps in the Secretary’s emails during key times of her involvement in Libyan policy, including:
June 10-August 8, 2011—Time period where Secretary Clinton was heavily involved in Libya policy
September 14-October 21 2011—Dates of Secretary Clinton’s trip to Libya, when the now-famous picture of Clinton on her blackberry was taken
October 21, 2011-January 5, 2012—Time period when the State Department was extending the Benghazi mission for another year
April 27- July 4 2012—Time period of increased security during which an IED was thrown at the compound blasting a hole through the wall and during which the British ambassador was attacked
Sent from my iPhone
On May 22, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Ian Sams <isams@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:Another:
· 2:08 pm
· by Byron Tau
Mrs. Clinton was informed several times in 2011 about the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi and the dangers that diplomatic staff on the ground were facing, emails show.
Chris Stevens, then a special representative to the transitional government, considered aborting a mission in Benghazi in April 2011 because of the danger. But State Department officials warned that an abrupt departure would send a signal.
“Departure would send a significant political signal, and would be interpreted as the U.S. losing confidence in the [Libyan transitional government],” a state department staff member named Timmy Davis wrote in a note forwarded to Mrs. Clinton.
From: Ian Sams [mailto:isams@hillaryclinton.com]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 2:03 PM
To: Jennifer Palmieri
Cc: Brian Fallon; Tyson Brody; Josh Schwerin; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl Mills; Jake Sullivan
Subject: RE: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
Of note from the WSJ live blog:
· 1:34 pm
· by Byron Tau
Mrs. Clinton was given in-depth operational details of a visit by Chris Stevens to Benghazi in 2011, according to an email forwarded to her on March 27, 2011. Mr. Stevens — who was then serving as special representative to Libya’s transitional government — was killed in Benghazi during the September 2012 attacks.
The former secretary of state has maintained that the real-time operational details of diplomatic security were handled below her level. But information on the logistics around a 2011 visit to Benghazi were forwarded to Mrs. Clinton, according to emails released Friday.
· 1:37 pm
· by Daniel Nasaw
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Here’s the memo Byron just referred to.
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From: Ian Sams [mailto:isams@hillaryclinton.com]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 1:57 PM
To: Jennifer Palmieri
Cc: Brian Fallon; Tyson Brody; Josh Schwerin; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl Mills; Jake Sullivan
Subject: RE: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
Sorry for the mixup earlier when I sent an old NYT clip. Here’s their latest on the release:
1:16PM ET
By Michael S. Schmidt
State Department Releases Hillary Clinton Emails
WASHINGTON — The State Department said on Friday it was releasing 296 emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton sent and received when she was secretary of state.
The emails are the first tranche of many that will be released by the State Department over the next year. After it was revealed in March that Mrs. Clinton had exclusively used a personal email account when she was secretary of state, she asked the State Department to release all of the emails she had provided it from her time in office.
The State Department said the emails it was releasing Friday were provided to a specially appointed House committee investigating the 2012 attack on the American mission in Benghazi, Libya. The emails were sent from January 2011 and December 2012, the State Department said.
The New York Times on Thursday obtained and published an initial batch of the emails online.
“The emails we release today do not change the essential facts or our understanding of the events before, during, or after the attacks, which have been known since the independent Accountability Review Board report on the Benghazi attacks was released almost two and a half years ago,” the State Department said.
The website that the State Department uses was not working on Friday when it said it was releasing the emails.
From: Ian Sams [mailto:isams@hillaryclinton.com]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 1:53 PM
To: Jennifer Palmieri
Cc: Brian Fallon; Tyson Brody; Josh Schwerin; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl Mills; Jake Sullivan
Subject: Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
America Rising is already clipping and pushing her gaggle Q&A on the emails, which is weird since she did a good job.
VIDEO: @HillaryClinton Pressed On Receiving Now-Classified And Sensitive Information youtube.com/watch?v=qdiQxJ…
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Jennifer Palmieri <jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:
HRC took three or four q's. Sounds like it went well. Hopefully we will see soon on msnbc or cnn. Varun will transcribe.
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On May 22, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Brian Fallon <bfallon@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:They concede the pt and will fix
On Friday, May 22, 2015, Jennifer Palmieri <jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:Brian - I think we should push back. It is not "document" not "documents."
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On May 22, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Tyson Brody <tbrody@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:Should someone push back on politico with regards to "now classified documents?" It's 23 words out of one single email.
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Josh Schwerin <jschwerin@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:
First batch of Hillary's State Department emails released
By LAUREN FRENCH, JOSH GERSTEIN and BRYAN BENDER
5/22/15 12:13 PM EDT
The first batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s four years running the State Department was released Friday.
Even before the emails were made public, the State Department argued that the nearly 900 pages of documents do not fundamentally alter the findings of the State Department’s Accountability Review Board that probed the Benghazi terrorist attacks.
“The emails we release today do not change the essential facts or our understanding of the events before, during, or after the attacks, which have been known since the independent Accountability Review Board report on the Benghazi attacks was released almost two and a half years ago,” wrote the department’s deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf.
These highly anticipated emails, some of which have already leaked out, give insight into Clinton’s tenure as the top U.S. diplomat. They’re also serving as fodder for critics of the Democratic presidential front-runner, who is still dogged by questions about a 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens.
And they are sure to raise more questions about the administration’s and Clinton’s response to what quickly became a political scandal. There is an email dated Sept. 15 with Clinton providing “talking points” for an upcoming closed-door hearing before the House Select Committee on Intelligence, but with the exception of Jake Sullivan the recipients are blacked out, along with the entire document.
It states only: “Per the discussion at Deputies, here are the revised TPs for HPSCI.”
The emails also show that Clinton received now-classified documents on her personal email address. One of the documents State recently deemed classified was a November 2012 email reporting possible arrests in Libya related to the Benghazi attack. The memo was sent through unclassified State Department channels and forwarded to Clinton’s private account by Sullivan, State’s Director of Policy Planning. A notation on the document released says it was classified as –“SECRET”—the middle tier of national security classification—on Friday, the same day the records were released.
Clinton has been under intense pressure for weeks since it was revealed that she used a non-official email address while at the State Department and stored those emails on a personal server in her New York home. Republicans jumped on those revelations to accuse Clinton of attempting to runaround federal records laws and keep key documents about Libya and Benghazi from the public.
Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, has subpoenaed the State Department for all documents on Libya from Clinton’s time at the State Department and is refusing to schedule the former secretary to testify until the Obama administration turns the emails over to congressional investigators.
Gowdy said in a statement Friday that the committee will continue to seek all documents from Clinton’s tenure at the State Department on Libya and Benghazi and not the “self-selected” emails the former secretary made available.
“To assume a self-selected public record is complete, when no one with a duty or responsibility to the public had the ability to take part in the selection, requires a leap in logic no impartial reviewer should be required to make and strains credibility,” Gowdy said.
The Benghazi Committee has had access to this first batch of email, which represents less than 2 percent of the 55,000 emails Clinton returned to State, for months. Leaked portions of the emails contain extensive communications between Clinton and Sidney Blumenthal — a longtime family ally. Blumenthal would often send Clinton memos on the security in Libya before the 2012 attacks that left four Americans dead.
Blumenthal’s analyses of Libya was often met with skepticism from senior State Department officials, including Clinton. Gowdy asked the U.S. Marshals Service to serve Blumenthal with a subpoena on Tuesday.
The emails also give a personal look at Clinton’s habits and relationships.
A Oct. 7, 2012 email from Blumenthal invited Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to a dinner.
“Postelection, we’d like to have you over for dinner. Bill can come, too, if he’s in town. Whatever works,” Blumenthal wrote.
The rest of the 55,000 emails will be released to the public in stages. State proposed releasing those records next January, but a judge rejected that plan and ordered the agency to come up with a rolling schedule, which has yet to be finalized.
The documents released Friday are from January 2011 to Dec. 31, 2012, “and relate to the security of, and attacks on, the State Department facility in Benghazi and to the United States’ diplomatic presence in Libya, including in Benghazi,” Harf said.
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel, said in a statement that the committee should now schedule Clinton to testify.
“Instead of the selective leaking that has happened so far, the American people can now read all of these emails and see for themselves that they contain no evidence to back up claims that Secretary Clinton ordered a stand-down, approved an illicit weapons program, or any other wild allegation Republicans have made for years,” Cummings said.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/hillary-clinton-emails-release-118214.html#ixzz3atDON74L
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Ian Sams <isams@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:
This strikes me as a selective placement from someone with access to the emails, maybe Benghazi committee staff since Alex has strong House GOP relationships. Hard to imagine Alex found this tidbit in an email and wrote this piece exclusively after the emails published 45 minutes ago.
He also gets the email address wrong.
Hillary Discussed Speculation About Her Health With Aides In Emails
1:15 PM 05/22/2015
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed with aides the chatter on cable news about whether she actually suffered a concussion in 2012, according to emails released by the State Department on Friday.
A week before she was to testify before Congress in December 2012 about the attacks in Benghazi, Clinton postponed her appearance with aides explaining she had fainted and suffered a concussion.
On Dec. 20, chief of staff Cheryl Mills forwarded Clinton by email a transcript of Fox News host Greta Van Susteren discussing Clinton’s health with Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain.
“Senator,” Van Susteren said during that segment, “there is a report from the State Department that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify on Benghazi before the middle of January. There has been some criticism of whether or not she has a concussion. I believe she has a concussion. What do you think?”
McCain replied: “I have never seen her back down. And I believe that she is now not physically well enough to testify and she will testify the middle of January.”
Mills sent a transcript of that interview to Clinton’s personal email — hrod@clintonemail.com — and to close aide Huma Abdein.
Speaking of McCain, Clinton replied: “Huma called him and [South Carolina Sen. Lindsey] Graham.”
“Also,” Clinton added, “someone should call Greta VS to thank her for ‘knowing the truth.’”
The emails released Friday, ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, are a few of the thousands the Democratic presidential candidate has turned over to the State Department from her personal email account. Clinton acknowledges she used that email account for both personal and official business.
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From: Tyson Brody [mailto:tbrody@hillaryclinton.com]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 1:21 PM
To: Ian Sams
Cc: Josh Schwerin; Brian Fallon; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Jennifer Palmieri; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl Mills; Jake Sullivan
Subject: Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
Attached are the redacted and unredacted versions of the email as a side by a side.
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Tyson Brody <tbrody@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:
Want to flag that if you look at the email in this link, HRC's email is redacted. But in yesrterday's new york times dump, the same email is unredacted. Could it be because Committee leaked?
See it unredacted from the times below:
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Ian Sams <isams@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:
Email with Hillary's revised Benghazi talking points is completely redacted pic.twitter.com/A3uGN0erHW
From: Ian Sams [mailto:isams@hillaryclinton.com]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 1:05 PM
To: Josh Schwerin; Brian Fallon
Cc: Tyson Brody; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Jennifer Palmieri; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl Mills; Jake Sullivan
Subject: RE: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Date: May 22, 2015
Contact:
Jamal D. Ware
Amanda Duvall
Statement on the Release of Secretary Clinton’s Benghazi Emails
Washington, DC— Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., today issued the following statement after the State Department released 300 self-selected emails from former Secretary Hillary Clinton, over which the department had no control and no custody for nearly two years. These emails were turned over to the State by former Secretary Clinton in the fall of 2014 in reaction to a request from the Select Committee:
“More than six months after the Select Committee first discovered Secretary Clinton’s unusual email arrangement with herself, and after the media discovered Secretary Clinton relied exclusively on a personal server housing a personal email account eschewing any official email address, State Department transferred 300 messages exclusively reviewed and released by her own lawyers,” Gowdy said. “These lawyers, it must be noted, owed and continue to owe a fiduciary responsibility to Secretary Clinton to protect her interests. To assume a self-selected public record is complete, when no one with a duty or responsibility to the public had the ability to take part in the selection, requires a leap in logic no impartial reviewer should be required to make and strains credibility."
“It is also important to remember these email messages are just one piece of information that cannot be completely evaluated or fully understood without the total record. The Committee is working to collect and evaluate all of the relevant and material information necessary to evaluate the full range of issues in context. We will not reach any investigative conclusions until our work is complete, but these emails continue to reinforce the fact that unresolved questions and issues remain as it relates to Benghazi.”
“The Select Committee continues to believe the American people have a right to the full and complete record of her official emails and, therefore, asked Secretary Clinton to turn her server and the full body of emails over to a neutral, detached, independent third party for review. This is also why the State Department must comply with a months-old subpoena for emails of the former Secretary’s top aides, whose emails have never been received or reviewed by any congressional committee."
“The Committee’s interest is in building a complete record from which the final, definitive accounting regarding the terrorist attacks in Benghazi can be provided. The best way to answer all questions related to the attacks in Benghazi continues to be having access to the full public record, not a "record" controlled, possessed and screened exclusively by Secretary Clinton's personal lawyers.”
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Background Information on Released Emails:
Among the emails the Select Committee finds highlight the existence of significant investigative questions:
· September 24, 2012—“Compiled protest and Benghazi Statements.” A document that reinforces issues relating to characterization of the motives for the attacks. For example, Jake Sullivan noted, “You never said spontaneous or characterized the motives. In fact you were careful in your first statement to say we were assessing motive and method. The way you treated the video in the Libya context was to say that some sought to *justify* the attack on that basis.”
· August 24, 2012 — “H: Intel on new Libya president. Sid.” In this document two and a half weeks before the attacks, Jake Sullivan writes to the Secretary, “Some warning signs,” in response to the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi, which forced the Red Cross to suspend activities, and reinforces questions about what was done in response to these warnings.
· April 4, 2012—“Secretary Clinton’s Leadership on Libya.” This document characterizes Secretary Clinton’s ownership of U.S. policy in Libya.
· April 8, 2011—“UK game playing; new rebel strategists; Egypt moves in. Sid” In this document, Secretary Clinton responded to a Blumenthal memo with, “Fyi. The idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered.”
There are several instances of State personnel notifying the Secretary about security concerns and issues:
· April 10, 2011 – Forwarded email about deteriorating security
· April 22, 2011 – Request for continuous coverage in Benghazi, “security permitting”
· April 24, 2011 – Forwarded email about hotels being targeted
· June 10, 2011 – Email including information about credible threat info against hotel and that personnel are evacuating to alternate locations
· August 21, 2011 – Email regarding concerns about Islamist militias
· January 9, 2012 – Email stating that disarming and reintegrating of militias isn’t going as well as they had hoped
· February 24, 2012 – Email stating that militia rivalries are dangerous
· August 24, 2012 – Email stating that there are “some warning signs”
The Committee also has an interest in understanding the inexplicable gaps in the Secretary’s emails during key times of her involvement in Libyan policy, including:
June 10-August 8, 2011—Time period where Secretary Clinton was heavily involved in Libya policy
September 14-October 21 2011—Dates of Secretary Clinton’s trip to Libya, when the now-famous picture of Clinton on her blackberry was taken
October 21, 2011-January 5, 2012—Time period when the State Department was extending the Benghazi mission for another year
April 27- July 4 2012—Time period of increased security during which an IED was thrown at the compound blasting a hole through the wall and during which the British ambassador was attacked
From: hrcrr@hillaryclinton.com [mailto:hrcrr@hillaryclinton.com] On Behalf Of Josh Schwerin
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 1:03 PM
To: Brian Fallon
Cc: Tyson Brody; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Jennifer Palmieri; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl Mills; Jake Sullivan
Subject: Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
First Batch of Hillary Clinton's Emails on Libya Made Public
BY CARRIE DANNhttp://www.nbcnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton/first-batch-hillary-clintons-emails-libya-made-public-n362506
A batch of Hillary Clinton's personal emails made public on Thursday morning offers a glimpse into her team's initial exchange of information in the wake of the Benghazi attacks as well as her relationship with longtime confidante Sidney Blumenthal, who sent her at least two dozen memos regarding Libya during her tenure as Secretary of State.
The State Department plans to release about 850 pages of the emails, which had been handed over to the congressional panel investigating the Benghazi attacks. But on Thursday, the New York Times released about a third of that batch of correspondence, which Clinton exchanged using a private server rather than a government email account.
The documents show that, while Clinton used her personal email account to receive information the government calls "sensitive," she did not appear to use her private server to exchange classified information.
The "sensitive" information included details like the location of State Department officials in Libya during a time of instability in the country in 2011.
The documents released by the New York Times also show that Clinton received numerous briefing memos about Libya from Blumenthal, a longtime friend of the Clintons who was not employed by the State Department. The New York Times reported earlier this week that Blumenthal was also involved with a possible business venture in the country at the time.
Two of those memos from Blumenthal came in the days immediately following the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks.
In one, sent on September 12, Blumenthal suggested that top security officers in the country believed that the attacks "were inspired by what many devout Libyan viewed as a sacrilegious internet video on the prophet Mohammed originating in America." Clinton forwarded that information to top adviser Jake Sullivan with the message "more info."
But another memo sent the following day indicated that the attacks may have actually been carried out by a militia group. Blumenthal wrote that officials in the country "believe that the attackers having prepared to launch their assault took advantage of the cover provided by the demonstrations in Benghazi protesting an internet production seen as disrespectful to the prophet Mohammed."
The release of the emails comes after a prolonged political fight for Clinton over her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary of State.
On Tuesday, Clinton urged the State Department to expedite the vetting of the emails after initial reports suggested that the data trove would not be ready for public release until January of next year
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Brian Fallon <bfallon@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:
State did a nice job with this, despite the initial, sensationalized tweet by AP
On Friday, May 22, 2015, Josh Schwerin <jschwerin@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:State Dept. releases Hillary Clinton e-mails in Benghazi probe
AP MAY 22, 2015http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/05/22/state-dept-set-release-hillary-clinton-mails-benghazi-probe/E48MdmnEHKruEi5sTKzOwM/story.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton received information on her private email server about the deadly attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi that was classified Friday at the FBI’s request.
The email in question, forwarded to Clinton by her deputy chief of staff, relates to reports of arrests in Libya of possible suspects in the attack.
The information was not classified at the time the email was sent and was upgraded from unclassified to ‘‘secret’’ on Friday, according to State Department officials. The officials said 23 words of the November 2012 message were redacted from the release of 896 emails totaling 296 pages, to protect information that may damage foreign relations.
They said no other redactions were made for classification reasons.
Spokeswoman Marie Harf says publication includes 296 e-mails given to a House committee investigating the 2012 attack on the US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
She says redactions were made according to Freedom of Information Act standards. The emails will be released via the State Department’s FOIA website, foia.state.gov.
The documents cover e-mails between 2011 and 2012 related to the Benghazi facility and its security, and to the broader issue of a US diplomatic presence in Libya.
Harf says the e-mails don’t provide new facts about how four Americans were killed on Sept. 11, 2012. The State Department also said on Twitter that the emails don’t provide a change in its understanding of the events.
The State Department is still reviewing 55,000 further pages of e-mails from Clinton’s private email account. They’ll be published on a rolling basis.
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Tyson Brody <tbrody@hillaryclinton.com> wrote:
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