From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton-Scandal Primer

09/07/2016 / By treasonnews

Benghazi? More like Lib-yawn.

Article by David A. Graham

Last week, the State Department announced that it had examined 15,000 Hillary Clinton emails that the former secretary had not turned over, but which the FBI had found in the course of its investigation into her use of a private email server and account. Of those, perhaps 30 were related to the September 11, 2012, terror attacks in Benghazi. After years of investigations, might these finally offer some fresh revelation about the attacks?The answer is apparently no.

The State Department said Wednesday morning that there were only three new emails, with the rest being duplicates. Of those three, two were simply forwarded copies of messages that had already been sent, including a memo from Clinton to the whole department.

And the third was a January 2013 note from the U.S. ambassador to Brazil congratulating Clinton on her performance during testimony before Congress about the attacks. (The Wall Street Journal has all of them here.)

Politico notes that it’s unclear why that note wasn’t a part of the tranche of emails Clinton handed to the State Department. Lawyers working for her reviewed the messages using keywords, and so anything with “Benghazi” should have popped up. In substance, however, it’s the latest big Benghazi revelation that wasn’t.

On the Friday before Labor Day, the FBI released its own reports on its investigation. Unsurprisingly, the findings track closely with what FBI Director James Comey said when he announced the findings in July. The report, released in two chunks, offers the most complete narrative of Clinton’s email system. But they do offer a few of what a computer technician quoted in the investigation might refer to as “oh shit” moments.

The original “oh shit” moment concerned an out-of-date server that was housed at a facility in New Jersey. In December 2014, Clinton aide Cheryl Mills asked someone to delete the old messages. Apparently he didn’t do so. Then, in March 2015, The New York Times reported the existence of the email setup. The next day, a House committee on Benghazi requested the preservation of any records. Despite that, an unnamed staffer, realizing he had not followed Mills’s instructions, deleted anyway:

From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton-Scandal Primer

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