Hacked: Clinton team didn’t believe State would release emails

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Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff initially believed the State Department would provide the House Select Committee on Benghazi with fewer than one percent of Clinton’s emails from her time as secretary of state, messages published by WikiLeaks revealed on Monday.

The messages, obtained from campaign chairman John Podesta, show Clinton’s team discussing the issue on March 17, 2015. The exchange began with campaign press secretary Nick Merrill asking for input on a statement he had drafted in response to a subpoena from the committee demanding 55,000 emails from Clinton’s time at the State Department.

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