A State Department spokesman said Friday the agency gave the House Select Committee on Benghazi only the emails officials “felt best met [the committee’s] request” for Benghazi-related records instead of providing all relevant communications.

“After receiving the emails from Secretary Clinton, we went through them all and gave to the select committee those that we felt best met their request, which was for Benghazi-related emails,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said during the agency’s briefing Friday. “And out of that process came 296 emails that this department felt best met that requirement.”