Hillary Clinton acknowledged that the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was killed on September 11, 2012, in a terrorist attack did not have the secretary of state’s personal email address.
Chris Stevens, who Clinton has described as a friend, had been among those at the American consulate in Benghazi requesting more security personnel from the State Department as the city became increasingly unsafe for the delegation. At Thursday’s House Benghazi hearing, Republican congressman Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia noted that none of those requests made it to Clinton herself but suggested that Stevens might have tried to get in touch with his friend, the secretary, directly.
“Did he have your personal email?” Westmoreland asked Clinton.
“Congressman, I do not believe he had my personal email,” Clinton responded. “He had the email and he had the direct line to everybody he had worked with for years.”
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The next questioner, Republican Mike Pompeo of Kansas, pressed this further. Another friend of Clinton’s, Sidney Blumenthal, was revealed to have sent 150 emails to Clinton’s personal address. Blumenthal was a lobbyist on behalf of companies with business interests in Libya and was sending Clinton detailed analysis of the situation in that country. Why had none of the requests from the consulate for more security reach Clinton’s desk but those from Blumenthal had?
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