Newly leaked Benghazi emails: A smoking gun?

Conservatives pounce after Reuters, CBS News, and other outlets release State Department emails sent during the Sept. 11 attack

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on newly leaked Benghazi emails that reference an Islamist group's Facebook claims: "Posting something on Facebook is not in and of itself evidence."
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The slow, steady drip of information about the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, continues: Reuters, CBS News, CNN, and other news organizations have obtained and published the same three emails from the State Department Operations Center to a number of addresses at the FBI, Directorate of National Intelligence, State Department, FBI, and White House, reportedly including the Situation Room. The brief emails (PDF), labeled "SBU" — sensitive but unclassified — started about 25 minutes after the attack began:

4:05 pm ET (10:05 pm in Libya): "U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack"

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