Hillary Clinton's Benghazi emails contain few revelations: sources

[OKNancy]

Hillary Clinton's Benghazi emails contain few revelations: sources

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/28/us-usa-clinton-emails-idUSKBN0NJ2OX20150428

(Reuters) - A cache of Hillary Clinton emails expected to be made public soon contains no support for Republican accusations that Clinton was involved in efforts to downplay the role of Islamic militants in the deadly 2012 attacks on U.S. installations in Benghazi, Libya, people familiar with the emails said.

Two people familiar with the material said this week that the 300 emails do not demonstrate that Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the attacks, was personally involved in decisions that resulted in weak security at the Benghazi outposts.

The State Department is expected to make public this week or next Clinton emails about Benghazi that it turned over in February to a Republican-led panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks at the U.S. diplomatic mission and a nearby CIA base. U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attacks.

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Some showed Clinton exchanging correspondence with other State Department officials regarding security for a Libyan election that took place in June 2012. But there was no evidence Clinton held detailed discussions about security at U.S. installations in Benghazi in the months before the attacks, the sources said.

[leftofcool]

1. You mean there is no there there?

Time to change your hair style, Hillary. Trey Gowdy needs to link your hair with Ben Gawzi.

[Human101948]

4. His hair is already linked to mental disorder...

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A visible indication of a tragic and intractable disease which strikes 9 out of 10 Republicans.

[ananda]

20. Called terminal foot in mouth disease!

..

[cynzke]

37. Every Time I See Gowdy....

With that ridiculous comb upped hair, I think he should be wearing one those caps from the forties with the bottle caps like Jughead wore in the Archie comic books! Its so outdated. Is he trying to look taller? If I found myself being cross examined by Gowdy in trial, would find it difficult to not look at him and burst out laughing.

[Botany]

47. Every Time I See Gowdy....

.... I think do you own a mirror?

[jmowreader]

46. It's not just a mental disorder that they have

In addition to being a mental disorder, rectocranial inversion is also a gastrointestinal disorder.

[madokie]

10. I don't think there is any there there

this is a fishing expedition only. Hoping to find any sign of any wrong doing on her part so they, GOP, can take off on another tangent

I'd bet money, if I was a betting man that is, that there is no there there

[RiverLover]

2. Let's see, she got to choose which emails to destroy & which to hand over...

Even if there's nothing to hide, it can never be beyond a doubt.

[OKNancy]

3. She did not go through the emails

personally. The State Dept. did. However, I'm sure the above is what the Republicans will say.

[RiverLover]

5. The state department did not see all of her emails. Only the ones she wanted.

The above is what anyone saying the truth would say.

[trumad]

6. So what do you think---

Do you think it shows her ordering a stand down?

You'll probably come back and say---we'll never know...

And Ill come back and say---well there ya go.

[RiverLover]

8. I don't think she's hiding anything about Benghazi, personally.

My own gut feeling is there was a lot of pay to play however, and that's why she set up all of her mails through a personal server rather than doing the ethical thing to begin with, having a .gov account for work-related emails.

But that's just me.

It was shady, only using a personal private email server. But apparently it was also very smart.

[trumad]

9. Your own feeling.....

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that says it all.

[RiverLover]

11. Your own feeling says it all. That's what she's left us all with, our own feelings because

she hid her communications.

She destroyed the possibility of running on transparency & openness in government, that's all that is certain.

That part of it wasn't very smart.

[FlatBaroque]

23. I see what you did there

You used logic and rational thought to calmly overcome bullying behavior. Well done.

[MaggieD]

36. I think you're on the wrong website

You must have taken a wrong turn on the way to Republican Underground. That's the headquarters for HRC conspiracy theories.

[Adrahil]

7. Trey... Is that you? n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. I do not think River Lover is Trey, do you? /NT

[Adrahil]

29. Of course not. But he or she is certainly carrying Trey's water on this n/t

[riversedge]

12. When governmental employees send an email to Hillary at the time--that

employee'/ officials email would have been retained on that individuals computer. Also if Hillary sent back a replay to said official that email would have also been retained.

[RiverLover]

13. Hillary didn't just email other govt employees. /nt

[DURHAM D]

14. She was probably ordering

items from Amazon,ebay, etc. I think we are entitled to know what. Don't you?

[karynnj]

27. That would be personal - how about:

emails on State Department related issues to non governmental people or to top aides also using her server.

Consider that these 300 emails were new that were put out - I don't know how many HRC emails they had because they had the other side - but 300 is not insignificant.

[blm]

31. Why aren't you concerned that GOP succeeded in making a covert CIA op

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in Benghazi only about Hillary Clinton when any UNBIASED READ of all the facts and sworn testimony and documents makes it apparent that Benghazi was a covert CIA operation under the direction of Gen. Petraeus - and EVERYONE o the ground there knew it at the time, including those killed.

GOP doesn't want public and the media focusing on that, do they? Then GOP congress and senate intel committee members would have to admit they knew it at the time of the attacks, and that all the BS accusations made against WH and State Dept were all political strategy to gin up outrage from the corpmedia and their dumbed down voter base who need constant fuels added to their arsenal of firebombs lobbed at the WH.

Corpmedia doesn't mind perpetuating these lies - what is YOUR reason?

[Fla Dem]

33. She said she kept/destroyed personal emails. So what.

Is every government employee expected to turn over their personal pc and emails because there just might be a conspiracy related email in their personal email? How do we know who in the government uses their personal email accounts to send emails they don't want shared with the public, work related or not. Why is she held to a different standard?

[karynnj]

25. No, Her team sorted personal from government -- then wiped the machine

The State Department got 55000 PAGES of PRINTED OUT EMAILS. The above is not just what the Republicans will say, but close to the truth and the problem. The only thing mildly wrong is that HRC did not personally go through the emails.

This is WHY the private (now wiped) server is a self inflicted wound. The fact is that two years AFTER she left office, she alone controlled her email. It could be that she did turn every email, even tangentially related to her job over to state -- or there could have been possible deletion that in retrospect make what she wrote look less than prescient.

She also left the State Department a huge mess. First, every FOIA that any of her emails should have been subject to now have to be amended. It leaves them accused of stonewalling - even though they tried to comply. Then, she cavalierly - to get out of her mess - called for ALL of the emails to be made public. This requires State Department lawyers to go through all of them redacting personal information or anything that should not be public. A major job. Also because she archived nothing, the State Department needs to find a way to take 55,000 printed out pages of emails and organize them to allow them to sort out any that are needed for FOIA requests.

In the near future, I would not be surprised if she faults the State Department for taking too long.

[Cha]

43. Really. who needs republicon talking points.. we got our fill right here on DU.

[procon]

18. And nothing was illegal, right?

While buying into Republican conspiracy theories and spreading around their unfounded speculations about a prominent Democrat is ever so helpful to our opponents, I wonder what your real motive is?

[Cha]

44. My guess is.. just likes to drop crap on anything positive that isn't coming from Warren or Bernie.

[geek tragedy]

26. apparently parroting Trey Gowdy's talking points is very 'populist' nt

[blm]

30. I find it odd that corpmedia allows liars to still push the narrative

that State Dept is where all the answers are to be found, when anyone in possession of above room temperature IQ could have read all the sworn testimony and documents and realized early on that Benghazi was a covert CIA operation under the direction of Gen. Petraeus who had dozens of his agents and operatives on the ground there before, during, and after the attack.

GOP intel committee senators and congress critters knew it at the time the tracks happened, but, also knew the expected reticence from the administration on ANY CIA op would give them the opportunity to make a political mountain out of it and shape the narrative against WH and State.

You want to continue their game, go ahead, but, anyone with comprehension skills AND an ounce of integrity would use their energy to push forward the truth about Benghazi and shine a light on the tactics that were used by GOP strategists to take advantage of all those dumbed down GOP voters and to misdirect blame in the minds of the casual absorbers of headline news.

[Vinca]

15. I wonder how many GOP vendettas/committees will have to clear Hillary before it's over.

The GOP should welcome Hillary. If she wins they can continue business as usual. They can swap Obama hate for Hillary hate and go their merry way in Congress: doing nothing, proposing nothing, contributing nothing and feeding off the taxpayers (all the while cashing in on the Kochs and Adelsons of the world).

[Kingofalldems]

16. I see the GOP's DU pals jumped in on this thread.

[leftofcool]

17. Of course they did, business as usual.

[FlatBaroque]

24. yes! These people who

are "pallin' around with the GOP". Sounds familiar.

[emulatorloo]

28. Dunno, tying one's hopes to the successes of GOP smear campaigns and Swiftboating seems odd to me.

And that sort of active support and cheerleading of Gop Smears/Benghazi Committee/"Clinton Cash" etc is much different than the "palling around with Terrorists" Pailn smear you are evoking.

Welcome to DU, FlatBaroque!!!! GREAT name!

[Cha]

45. It does seem odd.. I would have thought they'd be smarter than that.. oh well.

[Historic NY]

19. We already knew this from previous Issa investigations....

to claim there is large gaps seems disingenuous . Did they expect to find the needle?

If only the 911 Commission was so due diligent.

[Beacool]

41. How much of our money are all these hearings costing us?

Probably millions, and all for what? What a waste of time and money.

[JaneyVee]

22. KNR!

[riqster]

32. Again?

Since the 90's, that has been the result.

[herding cats]

34. It's long past time to bury that dead horse.

At this point all that remains are the broken, sun bleached bones. Still the GOP insist on beating the bones some more just to see if they can get anyone to listen to them rattle.

[cindyperry]

35. omg

whatever will they have to make shit up about now

[Gamecock Lefty]

38. Trey - Fix Your Damn Hair!

Gowdy – what an embarrassment to my home state! Like many others from SC sad to say.

But wait, can’t he find something on Vince Foster? Is Monica still game? How about Jennifer Flowers? Maybe the Rose Law Firm? There has to be something here – right???

(sarcasm)

[C Moon]

39. :D

[Beacool]

40. Quelle surprise...............

What do they really expect to find in her e-mails? This is a woman who has survived decades of scrutiny. Does anyone think that she would put something incriminating in an e-mail????

These idiots keep trying to find something that is simply not there. SOS are not personally in charge of embassy security. That task is the purview of the Under Secretary of Management, who is responsible for several bureaus, including the Bureau of Diplomatic Security.

"The Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) is the security and law enforcement arm of the U.S. Department of State. DS is a world leader in international investigations, threat analysis, cyber security, counterterrorism, security technology, and protection of people, property, and information. DS is responsible for providing a safe and secure environment for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. In the U.S., DS personnel protect the Secretary of State and high-ranking foreign dignitaries and officials visiting the U.S., investigate passport and visa fraud, and conduct personnel security investigations. DS plays a vital role in protecting U.S. embassies and personnel overseas, securing critical information systems, investigating passport and visa fraud, and fighting the war on terror."

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/dos/436.htm

[Cha]

42. But but but.. Benghazie!