Benghazi committee releases more Clinton emails, prompts new questions
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Benghazi committee releases more Clinton emails, prompts new questions
Hillary Clinton used her private email to pass along the identity of one of the CIA’s top Libyan intelligence sources, raising new questions about her handling of classified information, according to excerpts from previously undisclosed emails released Thursday by Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Republican chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi. On March 18, 2011, Sidney Blumenthal — Clinton’s longtime friend and political adviser — sent the then-secretary of state an email to her private account that contained apparently highly sensitive information he had received from Tyler Drumheller, a former top CIA official, which Clinton then forwarded to a colleague.
Armed with that information, Secretary Clinton forwarded the email to a colleague — debunking her claim that she never sent any classified information from her private email address.
Trey Gowdy, Republican chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi
While there is nothing that indicates that the email from Blumenthal (who was not a government employee) was marked classified at the time Clinton received it, the sensitive nature of its contents should have been a red flag, according to John Maguire, a former veteran CIA officer. Gowdy’s 13-page letter to Rep. Elijah Cummings, a top Democrat on the Benghazi panel, comes as the committee prepares for Clinton’s long-awaited public testimony, scheduled for Oct. 22.
