Subject: Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Ian Sams <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tyson Brody <[email-masked]>, Josh Schwerin <[email-masked]>, Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>, Christina Reynolds <[email-masked]>, HRCRR <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 15:28:49 -0400

*Hilary Rosen* ‏@hilaryr  <https://twitter.com/hilaryr> 3m3 minutes ago
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I think my favorite of the #HillaryClinton
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/HillaryClinton?src=hash> #Benghazi
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/Benghazi?src=hash> emails is this one:
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2086095-c05739545.html …
<http://t.co/xDaigyAc7h>
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Ian Sams <[email-masked]> wrote:

> http://www.vox.com/2015/5/22/8646231/clinton-aide-libya-benghazi
>
>
> Benghazi emails reveal Clinton team thought Libya was her
> marquee achievement
>
> *Updated by Jonathan Allen <http://www.vox.com/authors/jonathan-allen> on
> May 22, 2015, 3:00 p.m. ET *
>
> A top State Department official boasted of Hillary Clinton's
> "leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country's Libya policy from start
> to finish" a little more than a year before the attack that killed four
> Americans at a US compound in Benghazi.
>
> That assessment, offered up in an email from Clinton Deputy Chief of Staff
> Jake Sullivan to fellow State Department aides Cheryl Mills and Victoria
> Nuland, is contained in a trove of emails the agency turned over Friday to
> the House committee investigating the Benghazi attack.
>
> Written in August 2011, it shows that Clinton's aides once viewed her role
> in the US-backed intervention in Libya as a marquee achievement.
>
> "HRC has been a critical voice on Libya in administration deliberations,
> at NATO, and in contact group meetings," Sullivan wrote. "She was
> instrumental in securing the authorization, building the coalition, and
> tightening the noose around Qadhafi and his regime."
>
>
>
> Sullivan also recounts the key days of diplomacy in March 2011 that led to
> the creation of the coalition that attacked Gaddafi.
>
>
>
>
>
> And Clinton's efforts on Capitol Hill.
>
>
>
>
>
> Thirteen months later, the killing of four Americans in Libya, including
> Ambassador Chris Stevens, would make it impossible for Clinton to cast the
> US-backed intervention as a success or an achievement on her part.
>
>
>
> *From:* Ian Sams [mailto:[email-masked]]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 3:15 PM
> *To:* Tyson Brody
> *Cc:* Josh Schwerin; Cheryl Mills; Karen Finney; Jennifer Palmieri; Brian
> Fallon; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby
> Mook; Huma Abedin; Jake Sullivan
> *Subject:* RE: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
>
>
>
> The more it goes in this direction, the better…
>
>
>
>
> http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/the-clinton-team-praises-journals-monica-langley-207592.html#.VV9-XYgECex.twitter
>
>
> The Clinton team praises Journal's Monica Langley
>
> ·
>
> ·         *1*
> <http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/the-clinton-team-praises-journals-monica-langley-207592.html#disqus_thread>
>
> ·
> *Email*
>
> ·
> *Print*
>
> By DYLAN BYERS <http://www.politico.com/reporters/DylanByers.html> |
> *5/22/15 2:51 PM EDT*
>
> From the newly released batch of Hillary Clinton emails, here is
> correspondence from Oct. 11, 2012, among senior State Department adviser
> Phillipe Reines, Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides and State Department
> Communications Director Caroline Adler following an interview Secretary
> Clinton gave to The Wall Street Journal's Monica Langley:
>
> Reines:
>
> Tom, was an awesome interview. Hrc was great, but I was really impressed
> by how good of an interviewer Monica is. One of the best I've ever seen.
> But she was her usual wacky self and pulled one move that I can't even
> describe so I'll let Caroline do - since you'll appreciate it given your
> familiarity with Monica Langley, Hillary Clinton, and the Secretary's chair
> arrangement in her outer office.
>
> Adler:
>
> This will be exciting when it's FOIA'd ...but will give you a sense of the
> interaction:
>
> *HRC.* Monica, have a seat
> ::HRC motions toward a chair situated an appropriate distance from her
> preferred spot on the couch::
>
> *Monica*: ll!!Sure!!!
> ::Monica proceeds to drag her chair within inches of the Secretary
> --leaning in even further::
>
> *Interview proceeds... and about midway.*
>
> *Monica:* Oh Hillary...2016 '16 '16
> ::Monica grabs HRO's knee::
>
> *HRC* laughs awkwardly — glances at Philippe
>
> *Monica:* ::leaning in further::
> Oh Hillary...what do you eat? drink? dream about when you sleep?
> ::Monica again touches HRC's leg::
>
> ::Everybody laughs awkwardly — Philippe hardly able to contain himself::
>
> *Monica:* They think I'm so funny (looking at Philippe and me.) HILL, can
> I ride on your lap to the White House?
>
> ...this went for about 51 minutes And I agree with Philippe- whatever she
> does, it works. It was a really great interview.
>
> Nides:
>
> I may go and throw up since I am laughing so hard
>
> Reines (cc'ing Sec. Clinton):
>
> +Hrc
>
> Tom, she moved that yellow chair as close as it went. Knee to knee. Amazed
> she didn't try knee in between knee. And if that wasn't enough, she leaned
> forward. More like a pivot, as far as her torso could fold forward to
> minimize the space between their heads. Was like the dental hygienist
> rolling around the floor to get the best access to your mouth depending on
> what tooth she was trying to get access to I've never seen a Westerner
> invade her space like that And even the non Westerners I've seen do it
> based on cultural differences have been only briefly to greet, This went on
> like that for 51 minutes - unacceptable in any culture. I don't even think
> you see that behavior among any type of mammal. The touching the leg and
> repeatedly calling her 'Hillary' was just gravy.
>
> But it was wonderful. One of the best interviews I've ever witnessed. Wish
> it were on live tv.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Ian Sams [mailto:[email-masked]]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 3:11 PM
> *To:* Tyson Brody
> *Cc:* Josh Schwerin; Cheryl Mills; Karen Finney; Jennifer Palmieri; Brian
> Fallon; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby
> Mook; Huma Abedin; Jake Sullivan
> *Subject:* RE: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
>
>
>
> *Hadas Gold* @Hadas_Gold <https://twitter.com/Hadas_Gold>
>
>
>
> Huma to Hillary: "I'm giving you credit for inspiring the "peaceful"
> protests." pic.twitter.com/DYrPSwEaHh <http://t.co/DYrPSwEaHh>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Tyson Brody [mailto:[email-masked]]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 2:54 PM
> *To:* Ian Sams
> *Cc:* Josh Schwerin; Cheryl Mills; Karen Finney; Jennifer Palmieri; Brian
> Fallon; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby
> Mook; Huma Abedin; Jake Sullivan
> *Subject:* Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
>
>
>
> https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/601822415807770625
>
>
> @lachlan
>
> HRC in Hard Choices: "My thoughts immediately went to Chris" (Stevens) HRC
> email on 9/11/12 asks abt "Chris Smith"
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Ian Sams <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Looks to have just been response to the clip. Email chain at bottom.
>
>
>
>
> https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-request-chris-stevens-dad-not-politicize-benghazi-very-nice_953218.html
> Hillary on Request From Chris Stevens Dad Not To Politicize Benghazi:
> 'Very Nice'
>
> 3:27 PM, MAY 22, 2015 • BY MICHAEL WARREN
> <https://www.weeklystandard.com/author/michael-warren>
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>
> Hillary Clinton was forwarded an article a month after the terrorist
> attack on Benghazi that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens that quoted
> Stevens's father. In the October 14, 2012, Bloomberg article
> <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-14/libyan-ambassador-s-death-not-a-political-issue-says-dad>,
> Jan Stevens, the late ambassador's father, was quoted saying that it would
> be "abhorrent" to make his son's death a political issue in the
> presidential campaign.
>
> According to the State Department's release of several emails sent to
> Clinton's private email address, the link to the article was forwarded on
> the same day to State Department employee Chris Hensman, who forwarded it
> to Clinton advisers Cheryl Mills and Philippe Reines. Mills forwarded that
> email to Clinton.
>
> "Very nice," replied Clinton. "Can you talk?" See a sreenshot of the email
> below:
>
>
>
> [image:
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>
>
>
> *From:* Josh Schwerin [mailto:[email-masked]]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 2:41 PM
> *To:* Cheryl Mills
> *Cc:* Karen Finney; Ian Sams; Jennifer Palmieri; Brian Fallon; Tyson
> Brody; Christina Reynolds; HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby
> Mook; Huma Abedin; Jake Sullivan
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
>
>
>
> The image posted on twitter just shows the top of the email. Wondering if
> there's any additional context that they cropped out
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> What do you mean?
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Josh Schwerin <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Can we get the rest of this email?
>
> *Joe Pounder* <https://twitter.com/PounderFile>
>
> @PounderFile <https://twitter.com/PounderFile>
>
> In response to email w/ this story "Bloomberg: Libyan Ambassador's Death
> Not a Political Issue, Says Dad", @HillaryClinton
> <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/> says "very nice"
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> This is from the Gowdy  release - per the question from Jon Allen at
> Reuters do we want to respond ?
>
>
>
> He makes 3 points, reporters picking up:
>
> 1) the emails highlight "investigative questions".
>
> 2) Emails show the Secretary had been warned about Benghazi
>
> 3) There are gaps in what the committee has. (Note that the examples he
> cites happened before the actual attack)
>
>
>
> I suggest we don't respond to Gowdy and refer Allen to HRC remarks.
>
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
> *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
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On May 22, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Ian Sams <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Another:
>
>
>
> ·         *2:08 pm*
>
> ·         *by Byron Tau*
>
>
>
>
>
> Mrs. Clinton was informed several times in 2011 about the deteriorating
> security situation in Benghazi and the dangers that diplomatic staff on the
> ground were facing, *emails show*
> <http://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRC_Email_1_296/HRCH1/DOC_0C05739666/C05739666.pdf>
> .
>
> Chris Stevens, then a special representative to the transitional
> government, considered aborting a mission in Benghazi in April 2011 because
> of the danger. But State Department officials warned that an abrupt
> departure would send a signal.
>
> “Departure would send a significant political signal, and would be
> interpreted as the U.S. losing confidence in the [Libyan transitional
> government],” a state department staff member named Timmy Davis wrote in a
> note forwarded to Mrs. Clinton.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Ian Sams [mailto:[email-masked]]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 2:03 PM
> *To:* Jennifer Palmieri
> *Cc:* Brian Fallon; Tyson Brody; Josh Schwerin; Christina Reynolds;
> HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl
> Mills; Jake Sullivan
> *Subject:* RE: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
>
>
>
> Of note from the WSJ live blog:
>
>
>
> ·         *1:34 pm*
>
> ·         *by Byron Tau*
>
>
>
> Mrs. Clinton was given in-depth operational details of a visit by Chris
> Stevens to Benghazi in 2011, *according to an email forwarded to her on
> March 27, 2011*
> <http://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRC_Email_1_296/HRCH1/DOC_0C05739591/C05739591.pdf>.  Mr.
> Stevens — who was then serving as special representative to Libya’s
> transitional government — was killed in Benghazi during the September 2012
> attacks.
>
> The former secretary of state has maintained that the real-time
> operational details of diplomatic security were handled below her level.
> But information on the logistics around a 2011 visit to Benghazi were
> forwarded to Mrs. Clinton, according to emails released Friday.
>
> ·         *1:37 pm*
>
> ·         *by Daniel Nasaw*
>
> ·
>
> Here’s the memo Byron just referred to.
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Ian Sams [mailto:[email-masked]]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 1:57 PM
> *To:* Jennifer Palmieri
> *Cc:* Brian Fallon; Tyson Brody; Josh Schwerin; Christina Reynolds;
> HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl
> Mills; Jake Sullivan
> *Subject:* RE: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
>
>
>
> Sorry for the mixup earlier when I sent an old NYT clip. Here’s their
> latest on the release:
>
>
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/22/state-department-releases-more-hillary-clinton-emails/?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
>
>
>
> *1:16PM ET*
> By Michael S. Schmidt
> <https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=MichaelSSchmidt> State
> Department Releases Hillary Clinton Emails
> <http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/22/state-department-releases-more-hillary-clinton-emails/>
>
>
>
>
>
> WASHINGTON — The State Department said on Friday it was releasing 296
> emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton sent and received when she was secretary
> of state.
>
> The emails are the first tranche of many that will be released by the
> State Department over the next year. After it was revealed in March that
> Mrs. Clinton had exclusively used a personal email account when she was
> secretary of state, she asked the State Department to release all of the
> emails she had provided it from her time in office.
>
> The State Department said the emails it was releasing Friday were provided
> to a specially appointed House committee investigating the 2012 attack
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/benghazi_attack_2012/index.html?8qa> on
> the American mission in Benghazi, Libya. The emails were sent from January
> 2011 and December 2012, the State Department said.
>
> The New York Times on Thursday obtained and published an initial batch of
> the emails
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/us/politics/first-batch-of-hillary-clinton-emails-captures-concerns-over-libya.html>
>  online.
>
> “The emails we release today do not change the essential facts or our
> understanding of the events before, during, or after the attacks, which
> have been known since the independent Accountability Review Board report on
> the Benghazi attacks was released almost two and a half years ago,” the
> State Department said.
>
> The website that the State Department uses was not working on Friday when
> it said it was releasing the emails.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Ian Sams [mailto:[email-masked]]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 1:53 PM
> *To:* Jennifer Palmieri
> *Cc:* Brian Fallon; Tyson Brody; Josh Schwerin; Christina Reynolds;
> HRCRR; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook; Huma Abedin; Cheryl
> Mills; Jake Sullivan
> *Subject:* Re: CLIPS ON EMAIL RELEASE
>
>
>
> America Rising is already clipping and pushing her gaggle Q&A on the
> emails, which is weird since she did a good job.
>
>
>
> *America Rising PAC @AmericaRising <https://twitter.com/AmericaRising>*
>
>
>
> VIDEO: @HillaryClinton <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/> Pressed On
> Receiving Now-Classified And Sensitive Information
> youtube.com/watch?v=qdiQxJ… <https://t.co/k2HYiCyot6>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Jennifer Palmieri <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
> HRC took three or four q's.   Sounds like it went well. Hopefully we will
> see soon on msnbc or cnn. Varun will transcribe.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On May 22, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> They concede the pt and will fix
>
> On Friday, May 22, 2015, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Brian - I think we should push back.  It is not "document" not
> "documents."
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On May 22, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Tyson Brody <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Should someone push back on politico with regards to "now classified
> documents?" It's 23 words out of one single email.
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Josh Schwerin <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
> First batch of Hillary's State Department emails released
>
> By LAUREN FRENCH, JOSH GERSTEIN and BRYAN BENDER
>
> 5/22/15 12:13 PM EDT
>
>
> http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/hillary-clinton-emails-release-118214.html
>
>
>
> The first batch of emails
> <http://foia.state.gov/Search/results.aspx?searchText=*&beginDate=&endDate=&publishedBeginDate=20150522&publishedEndDate=20150522&caseNumber> from
> Hillary Clinton’s four years running the State Department was released
> Friday.
>
> Even before the emails were made public, the State Department argued that
> the nearly 900 pages of documents do not fundamentally alter the findings
> of the State Department’s Accountability Review Board that probed the
> Benghazi terrorist attacks.
>
>
>
> “The emails we release today do not change the essential facts or our
> understanding of the events before, during, or after the attacks, which
> have been known since the independent Accountability Review Board report on
> the Benghazi attacks was released almost two and a half years ago,” wrote
> the department’s deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf.
>
> These highly anticipated emails, some of which have already leaked out,
> give insight into Clinton’s tenure as the top U.S. diplomat. They’re also
> serving as fodder for critics of the Democratic presidential front-runner,
> who is still dogged by questions about a 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi
> that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens.
>
>
>
> And they are sure to raise more questions about the administration’s and
> Clinton’s response to what quickly became a political scandal. There is an
> email dated Sept. 15 with Clinton providing “talking points” for an
> upcoming closed-door hearing before the House Select Committee on
> Intelligence, but with the exception of Jake Sullivan the recipients are
> blacked out, along with the entire document.
>
>
>
> It states only: “Per the discussion at Deputies, here are the revised TPs
> for HPSCI.”
>
> The emails also show that Clinton received now-classified documents on her
> personal email address. One of the documents State recently deemed
> classified was a November 2012 email reporting possible arrests in Libya
> related to the Benghazi attack. The memo was sent through unclassified
> State Department channels and forwarded to Clinton’s private account by
> Sullivan, State’s Director of Policy Planning. A notation on the document
> released says it was classified as –“SECRET”—the middle tier of national
> security classification—on Friday, the same day the records were released.
>
>
>
> Clinton has been under intense pressure for weeks since it was revealed
> that she used a non-official email address while at the State Department
> and stored those emails on a personal server in her New York home.
> Republicans jumped on those revelations to accuse Clinton of attempting to
> runaround federal records laws and keep key documents about Libya and
> Benghazi from the public.
>
>
>
> Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on
> Benghazi, has subpoenaed the State Department for all documents on Libya
> from Clinton’s time at the State Department and is refusing to schedule the
> former secretary to testify until the Obama administration turns the emails
> over to congressional investigators.
>
>
> <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/insiders-benghazi-testimony-works-to-hillarys-advantage-118202.html?ml=ri>
>
> *ALSO ON POLITICO
> <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/insiders-benghazi-testimony-works-to-hillarys-advantage-118202.html?ml=ri>*
> Insiders: Benghazi testimony works to Hillary's advantage
> <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/insiders-benghazi-testimony-works-to-hillarys-advantage-118202.html?ml=ri>
>
> *KATIE GLUECK* <http://www.politico.com/reporters/KatieGlueck.html>
>
> Gowdy said in a statement Friday that the committee will continue to seek
> all documents from Clinton’s tenure at the State Department on Libya and
> Benghazi and not the “self-selected” emails the former secretary made
> available.
>
> “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,” Gowdy said.
>
> The Benghazi Committee has had access to this first batch of email, which
> represents less than 2 percent of the 55,000 emails Clinton returned to
> State, for months. Leaked portions of the emails contain extensive
> communications between Clinton and Sidney Blumenthal — a longtime family
> ally. Blumenthal would often send Clinton memos on the security in Libya
> before the 2012 attacks that left four Americans dead.
>
> Blumenthal’s analyses of Libya was often met with skepticism from senior
> State Department officials, including Clinton. Gowdy asked the U.S.
> Marshals Service to serve Blumenthal with a subpoena on Tuesday.
>
> The emails also give a personal look at Clinton’s habits and relationships.
>
> A Oct. 7, 2012 email from Blumenthal invited Clinton and her husband,
> former President Bill Clinton, to a dinner.
>
> “Postelection, we’d like to have you over for dinner. Bill can come, too,
> if he’s in town. Whatever works,” Blumenthal wrote.
>
> The rest of the 55,000 emails will be released to the public in stages.
> State proposed releasing those records next January, but a judge rejected
> that plan and ordered the agency to come up with a rolling schedule, which
> has yet to be finalized.
>
> The documents released Friday are from January 2011 to Dec. 31, 2012, “and
> relate to the security of, and attacks on, the State Department facility in
> Benghazi and to the United States’ diplomatic presence in Libya, including
> in Benghazi,” Harf said.
>
> Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel,
> said in a statement that the committee should now schedule Clinton to
> testify.
>
> “Instead of the selective leaking that has happened so far, the American
> people can now read all of these emails and see for themselves that they
> contain no evidence to back up claims that Secretary Clinton ordered a
> stand-down, approved an illicit weapons program, or any other wild
> allegation Republicans have made for years,” Cummings said.
>
>
>
> Read more:
> http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/hillary-clinton-emails-release-118214.html#ixzz3atDON74L
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Ian Sams <[email-masked]>
> 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-masked] — 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.
>
>
> *From:* Tyson Brody [mailto:[email-masked]
> <[email-masked]>]
> *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.
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Tyson Brody <[email-masked]>
> 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:
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Ian Sams <[email-masked]>
> 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-masked]
> <[email-masked]>]
> *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-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]
> <[email-masked]>] *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-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> State did a nice job with this, despite the initial, sensationalized tweet
> by AP
>
>
>
> On Friday, May 22, 2015, Josh Schwerin <[email-masked]>
> 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-masked]>
> 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-masked]>
> 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-masked]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Please use this email chain to send around clips that are breaking on
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