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Judge orders State Department to keep searching for Benghazi emails

By Todd Shepherd
Published August 10, 2017 3:24pm ET
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Judge orders State Department to keep searching for Benghazi emails
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A district court judge has ordered the State Department to continue searching for emails related to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, which took the life of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

The ruling is another legal victory for the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which has been trying to access thousands of documents about the attack using the Freedom of Information Act.

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