Largest batch yet of Clinton emails released by State Department


On Monday, the State Department released 7,800 additional pages of emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, the largest release of her emails to date.
Most of the emails were from 2012 and 2013, NBC News reports. On Sept. 12, 2012, one day after the attacks in Benghazi, Clinton was sent a declassified update that said events "were set in motion by a statement made by a Muslim Cleric in Egypt saying that the internet film was going to be shown across the United States on September 11 in an effort to insult Muslims." Clinton also received an email from her daughter, Chelsea, who wrote she was "so sorry about the State Department officer killed in Libya and the ongoing precariousness in Egypt and Libya. Such anathema to us as Americans — and a painful reminder of how long it took modernism to take root in the US…"
In 2012, Clinton talked politics with longtime aide Sidney Blumenthal and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright. On Jan. 22, Clinton wrote to Blumenthal about the upcoming primary in Florida, calling Mitt Romney "Mittens" and Newt Gingrich "Grinch." "If Mittens can't beat Grinch in Florida, there will be pressure on state Republican parties to reopen or liberalize ballot access especially in the caucuses, which as we know are creatures of the parties' extremes," she wrote. Right before the presidential election later that year, Clinton sent an email to Albright, telling her she was "so nervous about the election, I can't think about much else."
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Also included in the latest batch was an email Clinton sent to aide Philippe Reines asking him for the Showtime channel number so she could "watch Homeland." After Reines asked if she had Comcast, Clinton replied: "You won't be surprised to hear I'm not sure."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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