WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — On Friday, the State Department released some 296 of Clinton’s e-mails during her tenure as state secretary from 2009 until 2013. The e-mails contained Clinton’s communications before and after the terrorist attacks on the US embassy in Benghazi, Libya in September 2012.
“The Department [of State] proposed that it make its next production of the e-mails by posting them on the State Department’s FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] website on June 30th, 2015 and that we would make rolling productions in the same way every 60 days thereafter.”
The release of Clinton’s e-mails followed the State Department agreeing to comply with a US District Court’s ruling last Tuesday.
The State Department had originally proposed to release all e-mails at once in January 2016.
Clinton’s 296 e-mails revealed the State Department knew that US Ambassador Chris Stevens’ life was in danger 18 months before the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the US diplomatic consulate in Benghazi in which he and three other Americans were killed.
The e-mails also showed the United States government misled the American public about the details of the attack, despite intelligence about the incident.
In March 2015, The New York Times reported that Clinton used a personal e-mail address for official business while she served as secretary of state, stirring up discontent across the United States.
