Benghazi Hearings: 1. Hillary's missing emails 2. T. Gowdy boots D. Issa from meeting

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‘Significant gap’: New files from Clinton adviser show emails withheld from Benghazi panel
Published June 16, 2015 · FoxNews.com

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Rep. Darrell Issa Booted Out of Benghazi Deposition
By Melanie Batley | Wednesday, 17 Jun 2015 07:40 AM

 

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Dozens of emails handed over to Congress from a longtime Clinton confidant were not part of the trove of emails originally submitted by the State Department, Fox News has learned -- raising questions over why those emails were apparently withheld.

One source told Fox News the newly submitted emails from Sidney Blumenthal show a "significant gap" in the record.

Blumenthal testified in closed session Tuesday to the House panel probing the Benghazi attacks about frequent emails on Libya he sent to Hillary Clinton when she served as secretary of state. Blumenthal worked in the White House under President Clinton and is a longtime friend and adviser to the Clinton family.

Blumenthal's role in sending the near-monthly missives emerged when nearly 350 pages of emails about the 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi were publicly released last month.

Fox News has learned that in advance of his appearance, Blumenthal's attorney handed over 60 emails, totaling nearly 180 pages.

Those documents, though, were never made available by the State Department.
It is unclear whether the State Department withheld them, or whether they were never provided by Hillary Clinton to the department for review.

"Clearly, the committee should have gotten this information sooner," panel Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., told reporters before the session.

Fox News is told the documents show Blumenthal providing policy advice to Clinton on Libya, and acting as a de facto intelligence operative for her, especially in 2011 before Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi was forced from office and killed.

His testimony comes days after Clinton formally re-launched her presidential campaign on Saturday.

A spokeswoman for the committee, Amanda Duvall, said the GOP-led panel "is only interested in the facts," adding that Blumenthal was called to testify because of the large number of emails he sent Clinton regarding Libya.

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., said he and other committee members want to know the depth of Blumenthal's involvement in Libya policy, why he had the information and who gave it to him.

The five Democrats on the Benghazi panel said their Republican colleagues were no longer interested in discovering facts about Benghazi, but merely were trying to prove that Clinton "engaged in some sort of conspiracy" over the attacks.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the senior Democrat on the panel, said Blumenthal's deposition was the latest example of how the committee "has strayed far from investigating the Benghazi attacks and is now focused like a laser on attacking Secretary Clinton in her run for president."

Cummings called it a "travesty" that the committee has spent more than $3.5 million on what he called a "partisan fishing expedition with no end in sight."

Blumenthal was willing to testify yet was served with a subpoena by armed marshals, Cummings said. He called the subpoena, issued by Gowdy, "abusive" and difficult to understand.

According to the State Department, they have not yet been contacted by the House Benghazi panel about the Blumenthal emails.

A spokesman also said the department "provided the Committee with a subset of documents that matched its request and will continue to work with them going forward."

"Secretary Kerry has been clear that the State Department will be both transparent and thorough in its obligations to the public on this matter," spokesman Alec Gerlach said.

A federal judge has ordered the State Department to release batches of Clinton's email correspondence from her time as the nation's top diplomat every 30 days starting on June 30.

The Benghazi attacks killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Fox News' Catherine Herridge and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

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Rep. Darrell Issa, the former chair of the House Government and Oversight Committee, tried to crash a hearing on Benghazi on Tuesday, but was escorted from the closed-door meeting by its chairman, NBC News reported.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, personally saw Issa to the door, saying he was not authorized to be there.

"I'm a prosecutor; we always follow the rules," Gowdy told NBC News. "[Issa] is not a [Benghazi] committee member and non-committee members are not allowed in the room during the deposition. Those are the rules and we have to follow them, no exceptions made."

Issa previously lead an investigation into the Benghazi terrorist attacks in his role as House Oversight chairman.

During Tuesday's deposition, Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal was being questioned about the nearly 60 emails he sent to Clinton about the attack during Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state.

Last month, the State Department released more than 800 pages of emails that had been turned over by Clinton from her personal server.

"I think it's noteworthy that no committee of Congress that has previously looked into Benghazi or Libya has uncovered these memos, and I will leave it to you to figure out there was a failure to produce on the former secretary's part, or a failure to produce on the Department of State's behalf," Gowdy told reporters on Tuesday, according to NBC News.

But the ranking Democrat on the committee, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, cast doubt on the legitimacy of Gowdy's focus.

"The Select Committee is now conducting its investigation by leaks and press releases, without bothering to mention that these documents don't identify any smoking gun about the Benghazi attacks — in fact, they hardly relate to Benghazi at all," Cummings said in a statement, according to NBC News.

A State Department official said the department had not been contacted by Gowdy's committee but that it is "working diligently" to publish all of Clinton's emails online, NBC News reported.


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[RugersGR8]

..."Secretary Kerry has been clear that the State Department will be transparent"...

The lib dem definition of "transparency" is when someone can read lib dem legislation while looking at it through 100yds of Bravo Sierra.

 

[Glocktogo]

State will never be transparent, will never comply with the demands of Congress and will never allow the truth to be told about what they were really doing in Libya. Neither will Hillary. The only punishment any of them will ever get for their immoral, unethical and illegal acts will be IF this keeps Hillary out of the Oval Office.

It's not enough, but sometimes you have to settle for what you can get.

 

[Brad A]

Nothing is going to happen to her. She has always done illegal/immoral things and has always gotten away with them. She is untouchable & above the law.