Internal emails of former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, released

by Fox News | Politics

For some time US Presidential aspirant Mrs Hillary Clinton, wife of former US President Bill Clinton has been in the news as dusts are raised about her emails while she was Secretary of State.

Former US Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Clinton.
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The argument had centered on several issues including whether she knew of security lapses surrounding the Benghazi attack during which some diplomats, including the US Ambassador to Libya, lost their lives.

According to Fox News, some 296 emails from then-Secretary of State's personal server have been made public by the State Department in the first of several anticipated disclosures.

Fox News said the Internal State Department emails in the aftermath of the Benghazi terror attack show then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received detailed information indicating the strike was planned by well-trained fighters, yet her office continued to push the narrative days later that it began "spontaneously." 

The messages were among 296 emails released Friday by the State Department, in the first batch of emails to be made public from Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. Totaling 896 pages, the emails show a series of Libya dispatches Clinton received from a confidant, as well as the barrage of messages among her and her aides after Sept. 11, 2012.

Those messages depict the rapidly changing understanding of what happened at the U.S. compound that night, and the administration's internal struggle to settle on a public narrative.

As previously reported, confidant Sidney Blumenthal fired off two memos in the two days after the attack. But the full email release shows he gave a highly detailed picture of what "sources" said had happened that night. Initially, on Sept. 12, he sent Clinton an email linking the attacks to anger over an anti-Islam Internet video which had triggered protests across the region.

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