The highly selective trove of Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails made public Friday feature long stretches of time when no emails were disclosed.
In the two weeks before the 2012 Benghazi attack, the secretary of state and her aides either did not send each other a single email regarding the atmosphere in Benghazi that led to the death of four Americans in a raid on the U.S. consulate there, or the emails during that time were not disclosed.
The 296 emails released by the State Department were heavily redacted and included at least one email containing a passage that was upgraded to classified just hours before it was slated for release.
Gaps of days or weeks exist throughout the batch of emails, raising questions about what was withheld from the public by the agency and Clinton herself.
The presidential candidate gave the State Department 55,000 pages of emails printed off her personal server in November of last year after weeding out the messages she did not feel obligated to submit.
In the entirety of 2012 before the September 11 attack, Clinton and her staff exchanged just 35 emails that the secretary of state evidently deemed relevant to the issue of Benghazi.
