An aide to Hillary Clinton was “so upset” after being scolded by the former secretary of state for accidentally giving her the wrong name before a diplomatic call with a foreign leader, new emails made public early Friday morning show.
Two days after the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Clinton was preparing to speak to the Tunisian foreign minister and had asked Monica Hanley, one of her aides, to set up the call.
Just before the phone call was placed, however, Clinton revealed she did not know the name of the North African diplomat she was about to contact.
“Do you have a first name?” Clinton asked in an email to Hanley, who responded three minutes later that his name was Rasik.
Hanley corrected herself four minutes after that, noting his name was “Rafik, not Rasik.”
“That’s too bad since I just used the wrong name,” Clinton wrote in reply, having already made the call. “I MUST only be give [sic] correct information.”
In a separate email, Hanley wrote to Jake Sullivan, one of Clinton’s closest advisers, that she was “so upset” about the minor mix-up and that officials in another State Department office had given her the wrong information.
Sullivan later forwarded the email to Clinton, writing, “Monica would never dime anyone else out to you, but I thought you should know this.”
The incident was revealed in a batch of emails made public early Friday morning by the State Department in order to compensate for falling short of a court order last week.
