Vets group sues State Department for not producing Clinton Benghazi emails

By Sarah Bedford
Published April 3, 2015 4:14pm ET
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Vets group sues State Department for not producing Clinton Benghazi emails
Joel Arends, chairman of Veterans for a Strong America, told the Washington Examiner his group now plans to file an additional FOIA request for the emails of Dennis Cheng, the former State Department deputy chief of protocol. (AP Photo) | Charles Dharapak

A veterans group that was among the first to announce its intention to sue the State Department in pursuit of a long-neglected Freedom of Information Act request after news of the Clinton email scandal broke will also seek the communications of a top agency staffer.

Veterans for a Strong America filed a lawsuit in a federal district court Wednesday in an attempt to compel the department to release former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails and phone records from noon on Sept. 11, 2012, the day of the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, through noon the next day.

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