Emails show Clinton ‘leadership, ownership’ of U.S. policy in Libya

Published September 30, 2015 9:16pm ET



The latest of Hillary Clinton’s emails released Wednesday afternoon by the State Department offer the first glimpse into how she and her aides handled the evolving situation in Libya.

Most of the 3,849 emails date back to 2011, when the security situation in Libya was deteriorating and Clinton was leading an international charge to intervene in the conflict. The documents shed new light on how forcefully Clinton fought for the U.S. to become involved in the civil war there, but long stretches of time without any mention of the conflict revives questions about whether she turned over everything related to the crisis.

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