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To: jlallen who wrote (898478)	11/4/2015 9:53:02 AM
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New State Department emails make Hillary Clinton's 11 hours of Benghazi testimony before the House harder to believe Fox News found several conflicts between Hillary Clinton's House testimony and emails she sent during her time at State Clinton testified that friend Sidney Blumenthal wasn't an adviser on Libya, but emails show he helped form policy The former secretary of states made statements about her responsibility for securing personnel abroad, which State's own website counters For more on Clinton's Benghazi hearing visit www.dailymail.co.uk/hillary By Nikki Schwab, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com Published: 12:31 EST, 3 November 2015 \| Updated: 02:52 EST, 4 November 2015 214shares 131 View comments Some of Hillary Clinton's newly-released emails are making statements she made during the recent 11- hour Benghazi hearing before a House panel a little harder to believe. Fox News found several conflicts between the emails and Clinton's testimony. The news organization found discrepancies between how she classified her relationship with confidant Sidney Blumenthal and how she actually used the information he brought to the table. Fox also noted that Clinton had more responsibility for the security of State Department officials than she let on during testimony. Not providing enough security was one of the reasons four Americans were dead in the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, including Amb. Chris Stevens. Scroll down for video SHARE PICTURE Copy link to paste in your message +3 Hillary Clinton's 11 hours worth of testimony before the House is being further scrutinized as the State Department released more of her emails, which contradict some of her claims SHARE PICTURE Copy link to paste in your message +3 Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal shows up in many of her emails and while the secretary of state said he was 'not at all my adviser on Libya' he suggested policies that she then implemented A major player in the emails, Blumenthal has been a close ally of the Clintons. He's a former journalist who worked as a senior adviser in Bill Clinton's White House. 'He's a friend of mine,' Hillary Clinton said during testimony. 'He sent me information he thought might be of interest. Some of it was, some of it wasn't, some of it I forwarded to be followed up on.' 'He had no official position in the government,' the former secretary of state continued, speaking before the House Select Committee on Benghazi back on Oct.23. 'And he was not at all my adviser on Libya.' But email conversations show Blumenthal having an impact on American policy in Libya. For instance, Fox reported, Blumenthal wrote to Clinton and suggested a no-fly zone over Libya. Clinton then passed the idea along to her deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan. 'What do you think of the idea?' she asked. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also contacted Clinton with the no-fly idea. 'Please work on the non-fly zone, or the other options I mentioned. Oil prices are rising, markets are down. We have to be decisive,' he wrote, according to the emails. SHARE PICTURE Copy link to paste in your message +3 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified that she didn't receive the 600-plus security requests from embassy personnel, though security, Fox News found, was one of her many responsibilities Hillary jokes and smiles a day after Benghazi hearing Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% 0:00 Play LIVE Mute 00:00 Current Time 0:00 / Duration Time 1:50 Fullscreen Need Text Video Quality 576p 540p 360p 270p Foreground---WhiteBlackRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyan---OpaqueSemi-Opaque Background---WhiteBlackRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyan---OpaqueSemi-TransparentTransparent Window---WhiteBlackRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyan---OpaqueSemi-TransparentTransparent Font Size50%75%100%125%150%175%200%300%400% Text Edge StyleNoneRaisedDepressedUniformDropshadow Font FamilyDefaultMonospace SerifProportional SerifMonospace Sans-SerifProportional Sans-SerifCasualScriptSmall Caps DefaultsDone MinimizeExpandClose Clinton eventually followed through, getting those within the Obama Administration to implement a no-fly zone. In another instance, Fox pointed out, Clinton used Blumenthal as a 'cut out' – a go-between who can gather information, 'allowing the policymaker plausible deniability,' the article stated. Blumenthal passed along the information to Clinton that in Libya Jonathan Powell, a former senior adviser to Blair, is 'trying to replicate what we did in Northern Ireland by setting up secret channels between insurgents and government, and then, where appropriate, developing these negotiations.' Clinton emailed her staff two hours later requesting to see Powell the next time he was at the State Department. Clinton also testified that the over 600 requests for diplomatic security never reached her desk, as security officials within the State Department took care of such things. The Fox report, however, countered that by producing language from the State Department website. 'The Secretary of State, and by extension, the Chief of Mission (COM), are responsible for developing and implementing security policies and programs that provide for the protection of all U.S. Government personnel (including accompanying dependents) on official duty abroad.' During her testimony, Clinton said, 'I take responsibility for what happened in Benghazi,' adding that she wasn't going to 'second guess' the security professionals at the State Department. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3302195/New-State-Department-emails-make-Hillary-Clinton-s-11-hours-Benghazi-testimony-House-harder-believe.html#ixzz3qXCttF7N Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter \| DailyMail on Facebook

To: jlallen who wrote (898478)	11/4/2015 9:54:01 AM
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More Emails Released by State Dept. Contradict Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Testimony 4520 9 271 Alex Wong/Getty Images by John Hayward3 Nov 2015 733 A new batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s server contradict the official media narrative that Hillary Clinton did a great job in her testimony before the House Benghazi Committee, answering an assortment of questions regarding reckless sharing of classified information.First, the emails described by Fox News contradict Clinton’s statements about the role played by Sidney Blumenthal. At the House Benghazi Committee hearing, Clinton described Blumenthal as an informal correspondent. “He’s a friend of mine. He sent me information he thought might be of interest,” she said. “Some of it was, some of it wasn’t, some of it I forwarded to be followed up on. He had no official position in the government. And he was not at all my adviser on Libya.” However, Fox News spotted some emails that showed Blumenthal advocating a no-fly zone over Libya in early 2011, and the Secretary of State passing it along to her deputy chief of staff as a serious policy proposal, asking, “What do you think of this idea?” Another email chain has Blumenthal serving as a back-channel intermediary to connect Clinton with a former senior British government official, who wanted to arrange negotiations between the Libyan insurgency and the government of Moammar Qaddafi. As Catherine Herridge of Fox News notes, this is very difficult to square with Clinton’s assurances that Blumenthal was “not at all my adviser on Libya.” The emails show some correspondence from slain Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens reaching Clinton, which contradicts her statements to the Benghazi committee that she did not see the six hundred requests he sent for advanced security, because she did not deal directly with him. In one case, she responded to an email he sent about humanitarian aid to Libyans, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, within a matter of minutes. The emails include a mixture of personal and serious correspondence, which sometimes mixes in very odd ways. For example, one email chain begins with Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin sending her a link to a story about the attempted assassination of the head of the Libyan Army. Clinton’s response asks Abedin if she has gotten any home decorating advice from Chelsea Clinton and devolves into a discussion about the price of designer lamps. The latest round of released emails also includes still more documentation that Clinton and her department knew the “spontaneous video protest” story was false, right from the start. The Washington Examiner describes one of the emails as suggesting “Hillary Clinton’s State Department was advised to tell two different stories about what sparked the 2012 Benghazi terror attack: one to the U.S., and another in Libya.” Read More Stories About: Big Government, National Security, Benghazi, Hillary Clinton, State Department, Libya, 2016 presidential race, secretary of state, Clinton Email Scandal, Sidney Blumenthal, clintonemail.com, Hillary Email Scandal, house benghazi committee, Christopher Stevens