Hillary Clinton's Benghazi emails are terse, exculpatory, Reuters reports


This week or next, the State Department is expected to make public a trove of about 300 emails from Hillary Clinton that the department handed over to House Republicans investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The emails don't show that Clinton, then secretary of state, had hands-on involvement in decisions that led to inadequate security at the Benghazi compound, Reuters reports, citing two "people familiar with the emails."
Many of the emails were reportedly short and cryptic, sent from her BlackBerry, and while she discussed security in Libya before the 2012 elections, she doesn't appear to have played any direct role in security arrangements in Benghazi, where Ambassador Chris Stevens and three U.S. security personnel were killed, or in the Obama administration's talking points after the attack. The House Benghazi panel is expected to continue investigating Clinton's role well into the 2016 presidential campaign.
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