Obama Administration Delivers Benghazi Document Dump for Christmas
Friday, 25 Dec 2015 02:01 PM
The Obama administration dumped 16 pages of emails related to Benghazi on Christmas Eve, but the documents are heavily edited to conceal what was considered as sensitive information, so few new details have been revealed about the Benghazi attacks or al-Qaida recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki.
The documents were released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, reportsPolitico, and include intelligence officials' communications from 2011 and 2012.
But only a few lines are visible in some of the emails. In one, just two of 17 lines of text were not redacted and in another, just the text "Attached it the final draft; we need comment/coordination by 1000, Friday (tomorrow) 19 October 2012," is visible.
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Further emails share news clippings, one February email in 2011 was sent to respond to a State Department in regard to al-Awlaki's passport being revoked.
Al-Awlaki was killed later that year, in September, during a drone strike in Yemen. It wasn't until the next year that it was reported that the State Department reported revoking his passport.
There were also memos in Thursday's dump that include details about using existing protocol to protect intelligence.
The Obama administration has also released such information during the holidays including in May, when it released a trove of 296 emails sent from Hillary Clinton's private server.
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The documents were released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, reportsPolitico, and include intelligence officials' communications from 2011 and 2012.
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Further emails share news clippings, one February email in 2011 was sent to respond to a State Department in regard to al-Awlaki's passport being revoked.
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There were also memos in Thursday's dump that include details about using existing protocol to protect intelligence.
The Obama administration has also released such information during the holidays including in May, when it released a trove of 296 emails sent from Hillary Clinton's private server.
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