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(70,239 posts) Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:15 AM Sep 2016

New trove of Clinton Benghazi emails proves thin Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/n

Source: Politico

New trove of Clinton Benghazi emails proves thin

State Department says set of about 30 Benghazi-related messages discovered by FBI contains only one that's all-new.

By Josh Gerstein

09/07/16 06:10 AM EDT

A set of about 30 Benghazi-related messages found by the FBI during their investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email system turns out to contain little fodder for critics or supporters of the Democratic presidential nominee.

A lawyer for the State Department told a federal judge last week that the FBI-provided collection contained up to 30 emails "potentially responsive" to requests for records about the 2012 attack which killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.

The disclosure of a new set Benghazi-related emails led GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign to attack Clinton over the deletion of roughly 32,000 emails from her private account while a House probe into the attack was active.

However, in a court filing early Wednesday morning, government lawyers said a closer review of the records the FBI located revealed only one of the messages was entirely absent from those produced by previous State Department searches: a flattering note sent by a veteran U.S. diplomat following her testimony on Benghazi before a Senate panel in January 2013.

"I watched with great admiration as she dealt with a tough and personally painful issue in a fair, candid and determined manner," then-U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Thomas Shannon wrote in a message sent to State Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills official account and forwarded on by Mills to Clinton's personal one. "I was especially impressed by her ability to turn aside the obvious efforts to politicize the events in Benghazi, reminding Americans of the tremendous sacrifice made by Chris Stevens and his colleagues but also insisting that our ability to play a positive role in the world and protect U.S. interests requires a willingness to take risks."...............................

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/new-clinton-benghazi-emails-227813#ixzz4JZiwfu4C

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New trove of Clinton Benghazi emails proves thin Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/n (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2016 OP

Isn't it amazing so many people falls short of the real truth. Listening to msm talking about phone Thinkingabout Sep 2016 #1

Ya the whole phone destruction thing didnt phase me in the least as its common practice cstanleytech Sep 2016 #4

Approx. 30 years of why Americans should hate and distrust HRC fueld by the GOP and Iliyah Sep 2016 #2

Once again the M$M carries water for conservatives everywhere... Blue Idaho Sep 2016 #3

Insane... Sancho Sep 2016 #5

"30 messages found by the FBI proved to be of little trouble for Hillary Clinton." deurbano Sep 2016 #6

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

1. Isn't it amazing so many people falls short of the real truth. Listening to msm talking about phone

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:31 AM

Sep 2016

destruction by Hillary and as we see there are ways to gather information from these devices and "IF" making the decision to destroy the devices to prevent others from gathering the information goes to the good judgement of Hillary and her staff not to allow sensitive information to be shared with those who should not know.

cstanleytech

(26,293 posts)

4. Ya the whole phone destruction thing didnt phase me in the least as its common practice

Reply to Thinkingabout (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 11:02 AM

Sep 2016

to destroy old devices to prevent the information from potentially falling into the wrong hands and there is nothing illegal nor nefarious about it as clearly her intent wasnt to hide anything because if that was the case she could have had the hard drives hammered that was storing her emails.