Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

riversedge

(73,030 posts)
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 04:11 PM Sep 2016

Only one new Benghazi email in 15,000 docs recovered from Clinton server, State Department says


I posted a dupe in LBN so I will self-delete but I like the article so cross post here.



Only one new Benghazi email in 15,000 docs recovered from Clinton server, State Department says



http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/benghazi-emails-hillary-clinton/index.html


By Tom LoBianco, CNN

Updated 2:03 PM ET, Wed September 7, 2016


Washington (CNN) Only one email from the batch of 14,900 new documents the FBI found from Hillary Clinton's private server directly references the Benghazi attacks -- and that was a letter of praise from an ambassador, the State Department said Wednesday.

The State Department is reviewing the large trove of documents recovered from Clinton's server and last week said that as many as 30 exchanges could be related to Benghazi. But the department told a federal court Wednesday that all but one had been previously released.

The newly published exchange is an innocuous note from former U.S. ambassador to Brazil Tom Shannon, praising then-Secretary of State Clinton on her performance at a 2013 Senate hearing on the Benghazi attacks.

"Please extend to the Secretary my congratulations for her testimony today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I watched with great admiration as she dealt with a tough and personally painful issue in a fair, candid, and determined manner," Shannon wrote in the email sent January 23, 2013, to Cheryl Mills, a top Clinton aide................................
3 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Only one new Benghazi email in 15,000 docs recovered from Clinton server, State Department says (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2016 OP
That is not really a Benghazi email. Just shows how overbroad the definition of "related" is. nt SunSeeker Sep 2016 #1
Thank you. William769 Sep 2016 #2
There is one email out of 14,900, interesting, now some republicans are thinking it is 14,900 new Thinkingabout Sep 2016 #3

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. There is one email out of 14,900, interesting, now some republicans are thinking it is 14,900 new
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 05:20 PM
Sep 2016

emails, if they had something to hang on to it would be different.

Latest Discussions»Retired Forums»Hillary Clinton»Only one new Benghazi ema...