Posted on 03/23/2015 7:14:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Hillary Clinton emailed with her top advisers at the State Department about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi on their own personal emails, despite repeated assurances that she contacted employees on their official addresses, The New York Times is reporting.
Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills and Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan, as well as senior aides Huma Abedin and Philippe Reines, all occasionally emailed Clinton with personal email addresses of their own, the newspaper reported.
The news comes as Clinton continues to face controversy related to her exclusive use of a private email address while at the State Department. Clinton's team partly justified that email address, which remained on a private server outside the grasp of State, by assuring reporters that it was "her practice to email government officials on their .gov accounts" in order to be sure that they were "immediately captured" as public records.
On top of the more than 30,000 emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department, the House Select Committee on Benghazi is reviewing about 300 that could be related to its investigation. While those emails are not yet public, the Times report sheds light on their content.
The emails reportedly do not lend credibility to allegations of a cover-up of the Benghazi attacks, but they do show her correspondence after a House hearing about a month after the September attacks. Clinton didn't testify until January, but another State Department official appeared at that hearing.
"Did we survive the day?" Clinton reportedly wrote in an email to an adviser.
"Survive, yes," the adviser responded, adding that he'll monitor the public's reaction, according to the Times.
The emails also reportedly show that Clinton's camp had initially been worried that she had publicly blamed the attacks on a spontaneous protest instead of an orchestrated terror attack. That initial characterization dogged then-United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, who made the Sunday show rounds connecting the attacks to outcry from an anti-Muslim YouTube video.
But Rice was criticized for playing down the attack once the administration began to refer to it as an act of terror. Sullivan emailed Clinton to assure her that she never "characterized their motivation" as "spontaneous."
House Republicans, specifically in the select Benghazi committee, continue to spar with Clinton over her private emails. Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C) officially requested that she turn over her private server so that an independent investigator can discover whether she deleted any official emails to hide them from public scrutiny.
AIR CLINTON 2016
Yes yes YES!!!
I can hear the descent from here!
The Slimes wants her out of this race. Badly!
Either they know some dirt that could cripple her should it come out in the general election, or like most of her party they are silently cheering for someone far more Liberal to rise to the forefront.
Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C) officially requested that she turn over her private server so that an independent investigator can discover whether she deleted any official emails to hide them from public scrutiny.
The only reason Trey Gowdy wants the server is so he can make sure ALL the Emails are covered up, we cannot have cases like this come up and damage the Ruling Class.
Yikes!! That looks like a topographical map of Colorado with hair and eyes!
Thanks Cincinatus' Wife.
In a few months the Clinton campaign with its media enablers will be saying, “those emails are old news and those republican racists need to move on”.
This is contempt of Congress. Start calling in the entire State Dept staff from that time.
Everybody in the world knows we had some sneaky-Pete stuff going on in Benghazi. Everybody in the world knows that Hillary Clinton is a professional liar.
Why did Hillary and Obama use US Taxpayer provided funds, equipment, facilities and personnel to overthrow the government of Libya and have Qadaffi killed?
Why did they kill Qadaffi? Remember, these Libyan thugs like money. Do you think Qadaffi was offering them money to let him live? I do. I’ll bet he was offering up huge amounts of money. Why didn’t his captors agree to it?
Because they were offered even bigger money to kill him.
So, you’re a Libyan thug, and you’ve been promised big bucks to kill Qadaffi by Hillary and Obama, and then they don’t pay you. What do you do? You embarrass the hell out of them at Benghazi. You take a bunch of Americans prisoner, and then demand ransom to let them leave the country. Then, to be sure that you are dealing with Hillary and Obama and not some flunkies, you demand that Hillary and Obama provide proof that they are personally in on this deal. You tell them that they have to personally star in a video to be aired in the Moslem world.
And they did.
They got caught with their hands on the knife that killed Qadaffi and they have been using our money to pay blackmail to protect their own guilty hides.
I don’t think Hillary will make it a few months. She has deferred her announcement for POTUS several times. Now she has said April. If she gets slammed when she announces she is done. She can’t keep deferring. “Rock vs HARD PLACE”. Hillary is in another tight situation. Unlike other times, she may not be able to conceal her misdeeds. Emails about Benghazi to her associates private severs was Classified. This was said at the time when STATE would not give out info. Is it a crime to send out Classified info? You beat your “Hillary” on it.
Russia has all the emails and hopes Hillary becomes President so they can Blackmail ,LOL
Will she go to jail for this?
Would a conservative White male go to jail for it?
Gowdy needs to add a little muscle to his request...b/c the conniving Clintons are not going to turn over anything willingly.
The best route would be to get all the readily-available documents at the Office of Management and Budget. OMB has all the financial details WRT how-which-what-and-where the taxpayers are subsidizing the Clintons.
We know the Clintons have not spent a dime of their own money on anything since they connived their way into public office. The parasites have been living off the taxpayers for years.
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Trey Gowdy (and Jason Chaffetz) need to go to OMB---and demand all records relating to taxpayers subsidizing the Clintons---OMB payments to Bill Clinton's Harlem office including the number of electronic devices he owns------and whether taxpayers subsidized the infamous server.
Congress needs to launch multiple investigations into Hillary’s State Dept financial transactions:
<><> her expense accounts,
<><> her use of federal credit cards,
<><>her role in the State Dept's disbursement of funds to private contractors;
<><> her role in the Haiti funding fiasco---and her brother's getting a gold mining permit;
<><> obtaining Hillary's official calendar, and her contact with foreign leaders,
<><>her possible collusion with the Clinton Foundation by using classified info as an instrument for fund-raisinig.
“Would a conservative White male go to jail for it?”
Can you say Scooter Libby”?
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen on FR....please go back to DU.
YOU HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS, HILLARY!
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