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CORRECT THE RECORD STATEMENT ON RELEASE OF SECRETARY CLINTON’S BENGHAZI EMAILS *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Friday, May 22, 2015 CONTACT: Correct The Record Adrienne Watson / Daniel Wessel (202) 540-9629 CORRECT THE RECORD STATEMENT ON RELEASE OF SECRETARY CLINTON’S BENGHAZI EMAILS Washington, DC – In response to the State Department’s release of Secretary Clinton’s emails pertaining to the tragedy in Benghazi, Brad Woodhouse, President of Correct The Record, gave the following statement. _ “Today’s release of Secretary Clinton’s emails is consistent with and only reinforces the findings of the previous nine Congressional committees and multiple independent reviews that have looked into this matter: There was no Obama Administration wrongdoing on Benghazi. Moreover, the State Department has reiterated that the emails ‘do not change the essential facts or our understanding of the events before, during, or after the attacks.’ “The record shows that Secretary Clinton took responsibility for the tragedy in Benghazi; she took action to ensure that such attacks don’t happen again; and she’s been fully transparent throughout. Secretary Clinton produced all of her work emails to the State Department and has called for all 55,000 pages of them, including these Benghazi-related emails, to be made public in an unprecedented act of transparency. “Now that the public can see that Secretary Clinton’s emails do not materially change the outcome of prior investigations that found no evidence of wrongdoing by President Obama or Secretary Clinton, it’s time for Chairman Gowdy to conclude his inquiry before it is further exposed as a partisan political exercise at taxpayers’ expense.” *From:* Tyson Brody [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 1:30 PM *To:* Ian Sams *Cc:* Josh Schwerin; Brian Fallon; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Jennifer Palmieri; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl Mills; Jake Sullivan *Subject:* Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE Here's another: https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/601801036194521089 [image: Embedded image permalink] On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Ian Sams <[email protected]> wrote: This strikes me as a selective placement from someone with access to the emails, maybe Benghazi committee staff since Alex has strong House GOP relationships. Hard to imagine Alex found this tidbit in an email and wrote this piece exclusively after the emails published 45 minutes ago. He also gets the email address wrong. http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/22/hillary-discussed-speculation-about-her-health-with-aides-in-emails/ Hillary Discussed Speculation About Her Health With Aides In Emails *ALEX PAPPAS <http://dailycaller.com/author/pappas/>* Political Reporter <http://dailycaller.com/author/pappas/> 1:15 PM 05/22/2015 Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed with aides the chatter on cable news about whether she actually suffered a concussion in 2012, according to emails released by the State Department on Friday. A week before she was to testify before Congress in December 2012 about the attacks in Benghazi, Clinton postponed her appearance with aides explaining she had fainted and suffered a concussion. On Dec. 20, chief of staff Cheryl Mills forwarded Clinton by email a transcript of Fox News host Greta Van Susteren discussing Clinton’s health with Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain. “Senator,” Van Susteren said during that segment, “there is a report from the State Department that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify on Benghazi before the middle of January. There has been some criticism of whether or not she has a concussion. I believe she has a concussion. What do you think?” McCain replied: “I have never seen her back down. And I believe that she is now not physically well enough to testify and she will testify the middle of January.” Mills sent a transcript of that interview to Clinton’s personal email — [email protected] — and to close aide Huma Abdein. Speaking of McCain, Clinton replied: “Huma called him and [South Carolina Sen. Lindsey] Graham.” “Also,” Clinton added, “someone should call Greta VS to thank her for ‘knowing the truth.’” The emails released Friday, ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, are a few of the thousands the Democratic presidential candidate has turned over to the State Department from her personal email account. Clinton acknowledges she used that email account for both personal and official business. [image: HillaryConcussionEmail] *From:* Tyson Brody [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 1:21 PM *To:* Ian Sams *Cc:* Josh Schwerin; Brian Fallon; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Jennifer Palmieri; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl Mills; Jake Sullivan *Subject:* Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE Attached are the redacted and unredacted versions of the email as a side by a side.[image: Inline image 1] On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Tyson Brody <[email protected]> wrote: Want to flag that if you look at the email in this link, HRC's email is redacted. But in yesrterday's new york times dump, the same email is unredacted. Could it be because Committee leaked? https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/601796614060167169 See it unredacted from the times below: [image: Inline image 1] On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Ian Sams <[email protected]> wrote: *Lachlan Markay @lachlan <https://twitter.com/lachlan>* Email with Hillary's revised Benghazi talking points is completely redacted pic.twitter.com/A3uGN0erHW <http://t.co/A3uGN0erHW> *From:* Ian Sams [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 1:05 PM *To:* Josh Schwerin; Brian Fallon *Cc:* Tyson Brody; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Jennifer Palmieri; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl Mills; Jake Sullivan *Subject:* RE: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:* *Date: May 22, 2015* *Contact:* *Jamal D. Ware* *202-226-7100 <202-226-7100>* *Amanda Duvall* *202-225-6030 <202-225-6030>* *Statement on the Release of Secretary Clinton’s Benghazi Emails* *Washington, DC*— Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., today issued the following statement after the State Department released 300 self-selected emails from former Secretary Hillary Clinton, over which the department had no control and no custody for nearly two years. These emails were turned over to the State by former Secretary Clinton in the fall of 2014 in reaction to a request from the Select Committee: “More than six months after the Select Committee first discovered Secretary Clinton’s unusual email arrangement with herself, and after the media discovered Secretary Clinton relied exclusively on a personal server housing a personal email account eschewing any official email address, State Department transferred 300 messages exclusively reviewed and released by her own lawyers,” Gowdy said. “These lawyers, it must be noted, owed and continue to owe a fiduciary responsibility to Secretary Clinton to protect her interests. To assume a self-selected public record is complete, when no one with a duty or responsibility to the public had the ability to take part in the selection, requires a leap in logic no impartial reviewer should be required to make and strains credibility." “It is also important to remember these email messages are just one piece of information that cannot be completely evaluated or fully understood without the total record. The Committee is working to collect and evaluate all of the relevant and material information necessary to evaluate the full range of issues in context. We will not reach any investigative conclusions until our work is complete, but these emails continue to reinforce the fact that unresolved questions and issues remain as it relates to Benghazi.” “The Select Committee continues to believe the American people have a right to the full and complete record of her official emails and, therefore, asked Secretary Clinton to turn her server and the full body of emails over to a neutral, detached, independent third party for review. This is also why the State Department must comply with a months-old subpoena for emails of the former Secretary’s top aides, whose emails have never been received or reviewed by any congressional committee." “The Committee’s interest is in building a complete record from which the final, definitive accounting regarding the terrorist attacks in Benghazi can be provided. The best way to answer all questions related to the attacks in Benghazi continues to be having access to the full public record, not a "record" controlled, possessed and screened exclusively by Secretary Clinton's personal lawyers.” ### *Background Information on Released Emails:* *Among the emails the Select Committee finds highlight the existence of significant investigative questions:* · September 24, 2012—“Compiled protest and Benghazi Statements.” A document that reinforces issues relating to characterization of the motives for the attacks. For example, Jake Sullivan noted, “You never said spontaneous or characterized the motives. In fact you were careful in your first statement to say we were assessing motive and method. The way you treated the video in the Libya context was to say that some sought to *justify* the attack on that basis.*” * · August 24, 2012 — “H: Intel on new Libya president. Sid.” In this document two and a half weeks before the attacks, Jake Sullivan writes to the Secretary, “Some warning signs,” in response to the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi, which forced the Red Cross to suspend activities, and reinforces questions about what was done in response to these warnings. · April 4, 2012—“Secretary Clinton’s Leadership on Libya.” This document characterizes Secretary Clinton’s ownership of U.S. policy in Libya. · April 8, 2011—“UK game playing; new rebel strategists; Egypt moves in. Sid” In this document, Secretary Clinton responded to a Blumenthal memo with, “Fyi. The idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered.” *There are several instances of State personnel notifying the Secretary about security concerns and issues:* · April 10, 2011 – Forwarded email about deteriorating security · April 22, 2011 – Request for continuous coverage in Benghazi, “security permitting” · April 24, 2011 – Forwarded email about hotels being targeted · June 10, 2011 – Email including information about credible threat info against hotel and that personnel are evacuating to alternate locations · August 21, 2011 – Email regarding concerns about Islamist militias · January 9, 2012 – Email stating that disarming and reintegrating of militias isn’t going as well as they had hoped · February 24, 2012 – Email stating that militia rivalries are dangerous · August 24, 2012 – Email stating that there are “some warning signs” *The Committee also has an interest in understanding the inexplicable gaps in the Secretary’s emails during key times of her involvement in Libyan policy, including:* June 10-August 8, 2011—Time period where Secretary Clinton was heavily involved in Libya policy September 14-October 21 2011—Dates of Secretary Clinton’s trip to Libya, when the now-famous picture of Clinton on her blackberry was taken October 21, 2011-January 5, 2012—Time period when the State Department was extending the Benghazi mission for another year April 27- July 4 2012—Time period of increased security during which an IED was thrown at the compound blasting a hole through the wall and during which the British ambassador was attacked *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Schwerin *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 1:03 PM *To:* Brian Fallon *Cc:* Tyson Brody; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Jennifer Palmieri; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl Mills; Jake Sullivan *Subject:* Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE First Batch of Hillary Clinton's Emails on Libya Made Public BY CARRIE DANN http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton/first-batch-hillary-clintons-emails-libya-made-public-n362506 A batch of Hillary Clinton's personal emails made public on Thursday morning offers a glimpse into her team's initial exchange of information in the wake of the Benghazi attacks as well as her relationship with longtime confidante Sidney Blumenthal, who sent her at least two dozen memos regarding Libya during her tenure as Secretary of State. The State Department plans to release about 850 pages of the emails, which had been handed over to the congressional panel investigating the Benghazi attacks. But on Thursday, the New York Times released about a third of that batch of correspondence, which Clinton exchanged using a private server rather than a government email account. The documents show that, while Clinton used her personal email account to receive information the government calls "sensitive," she did not appear to use her private server to exchange classified information. The "sensitive" information included details like the location of State Department officials in Libya during a time of instability in the country in 2011. The documents released by the New York Times also show that Clinton received numerous briefing memos about Libya from Blumenthal, a longtime friend of the Clintons who was not employed by the State Department. The New York Times reported earlier this week that Blumenthal was also involved with a possible business venture in the country at the time. Two of those memos from Blumenthal came in the days immediately following the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks. In one, sent on September 12, Blumenthal suggested that top security officers in the country believed that the attacks "were inspired by what many devout Libyan viewed as a sacrilegious internet video on the prophet Mohammed originating in America." Clinton forwarded that information to top adviser Jake Sullivan with the message "more info." But another memo sent the following day indicated that the attacks may have actually been carried out by a militia group. Blumenthal wrote that officials in the country "believe that the attackers having prepared to launch their assault took advantage of the cover provided by the demonstrations in Benghazi protesting an internet production seen as disrespectful to the prophet Mohammed." The release of the emails comes after a prolonged political fight for Clinton over her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary of State. On Tuesday, Clinton urged the State Department to expedite the vetting of the emails after initial reports suggested that the data trove would not be ready for public release until January of next year On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Brian Fallon <[email protected]> wrote: State did a nice job with this, despite the initial, sensationalized tweet by AP On Friday, May 22, 2015, Josh Schwerin <[email protected]> wrote: State Dept. releases Hillary Clinton e-mails in Benghazi probe AP MAY 22, 2015 http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/05/22/state-dept-set-release-hillary-clinton-mails-benghazi-probe/E48MdmnEHKruEi5sTKzOwM/story.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton received information on her private email server about the deadly attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities 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 896 emails totaling 296 pages, to protect information that may damage foreign relations. They said no other redactions were made for classification reasons. Spokeswoman Marie Harf says publication includes 296 e-mails given to a House committee investigating the 2012 attack on the US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. She says redactions were made according to Freedom of Information Act standards. The emails will be released via the State Department’s FOIA website, foia.state.gov. The documents cover e-mails between 2011 and 2012 related to the Benghazi facility and its security, and to the broader issue of a US diplomatic presence in Libya. Harf says the e-mails don’t provide new facts about how four Americans were killed on Sept. 11, 2012. The State Department also said on Twitter that the emails don’t provide a change in its understanding of the events. The State Department is still reviewing 55,000 further pages of e-mails from Clinton’s private email account. They’ll be published on a rolling basis. On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Tyson Brody <[email protected]> wrote: > > User Actions > Following > Matt Lee‏@APDiploWriter > > Matt Lee retweeted Brian Fallon > > Classified this morning - as the story makes clear. > > Matt Lee added, > > Brian Fallon @brianefallon > Classified only in recent days MT @KThomasDC: Clinton received now-classified Benghazi info on private email server, documents show. > > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Tyson Brody <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> WASHINGTON (AP) — Clinton received now-classified #Benghazi info on private email server, documents show. >> >> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Christina Reynolds < [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Please use this email chain to send around clips that are breaking on the email release. 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