On Christmas Eve, the Obama administration released 16 pages of mostly redacted emails pertaining to the 2012 terrorist attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Thanks to the heavy editing, the documents offer little in the way of new information about the raid and the ensuing controversy over the actions of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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