State Dept. Finds Some, Not All, Missing Clinton Emails

The State Department cannot find in its records all or part of 15 work-related emails from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private server that were released last week by a House panel investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, officials said.

The emails all predate the Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. diplomatic facility and include scant words written by Clinton herself, the officials said. They consist of more in a series of would-be intelligence reports passed to her by longtime political confidant Sidney Blumenthal, the officials said.

Nevertheless, the fact that the State Department says it can’t find them among emails she provided surely will raise new questions about Clinton’s use of a personal email account and server while secretary of state and whether she has provided the agency all of her work-related correspondence, as she claims.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, released a statement Thursday saying, “This confirms doubts about the completeness of Clinton’s self-selected public record and raises serious questions about her decision to erase her personal server — especially before it could be analyzed by an independent, neutral third-party arbiter.”

This article appeared in print on page 3 of the June 29th, 2015 edition of Hamodia.