Two top aides to Hillary Clinton will meet with the House Select Committee on Benghazi next week, despite the fact that Congress will still be away on recess.
Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s former chief of staff, and Jake Sullivan, former director of policy planning at the State Department, will meet with the committee Sept. 3 and 4, a source with knowledge of the plans told the Washington Examiner.
Both Mills and Sullivan handed over copies of their personal emails in June after the State Department sent letters requesting they submit any potential federal records in their possession.
Huma Abedin, Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff and present campaign aide, has said she plans to hand over the remainder of her personal emails by Aug. 28. She has provided the State Department with just a few hundred pages so far.
While Clinton has said Mills did not use a personal account on the private server registered to Clinton’s Chappaqua home, Abedin did use such an account for her government communications.
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walking with a then-Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Mills, Sullivan and Abedin were each involved in transmitting information that is now classified to Clinton, according to emails that have already been made public by the State Department.
Clinton herself is slated to appear before the committee Oct. 22. She will be forced to address questions about her private server, as well as her handling of the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the select committee, first announced his plans to interview Mills, Sullivan and Abedin in July.
The South Carolina Republican has in the past delayed interviews and hearings until receiving relevant documents.
Clinton’s use of a private email and server to shield her government communications from the public was first uncovered by the select committee this year as they probed the circumstances of the Benghazi attack.
