Among the thousands of emails recovered during the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private server were 30 emails involving the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Obama administration lawyers told a U.S. district court judge Tuesday that some of those Benghazi-related email were not previously turned over to the State Department for review. The administration plans to look over the emails and release them after redacting any potentially classified information.
When news first broke about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server back in March 2015, the former secretary of state said she deleted about 30,000 personal emails “about planning Chelsea’s wedding or my mother’s funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines, [and] family vacations.”
However, the FBI investigation uncovered “thousands” of work-related emails that were not turned over to the state department, some of which had been deleted. Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, who led Congressional investigation into the Beghazi terror attacks, said last week that Clinton deployed a software tool called BleachBit designed to delete files “where even God can’t read them.”
Information about the missing Benghazi emails came to light as part of a lawsuit filed by the legal watchdog Judicial Watch, which has launched multiple legal challenges to the administration over access to Clinton’s emails.
The FBI, which has already released a portion of its findings to Congress, is expected to release further information about its investigation into Hillary’s emails in a report later this week.
FBI Director James Comey did not recommend charges as a result of the investigation into Hillary’s email practices, but concluded that the former secretary of state and her closest aides were “extremely careless” in their handling of classified information.
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