Hillary Clinton Got Now-Classified Benghazi Info On Private Email
The State Department released the first batch of emails from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state Friday.
Spokeswoman Marie Harf says publication includes 296 emails given to a House committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
Clinton received information on her private email server about the deadly attack 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 296 emails totaling 896 pages, to protect information that may damage foreign relations.
They said no other redactions were made for classification reasons.
The State Department is still reviewing 55,000 further pages of emails from Clinton’s private email account. They’ll be published on a rolling basis.
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