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State Department Asked Hillary to Delete Classified Benghazi E-mail
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A top State Department official instructed Hillary Clinton to
permanently delete a classified e-mail related to the Benghazi
terrorist attack, but her lawyer refused because a congressional
investigation into her use of a private e-mail server was
already underway.
In a May 22 letter to Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall,
Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy notified the Clinton
team that a November 8, 2012 e-mail about a “report of arrests —
possible Benghazi connection” was deemed classified and should
be deleted. “Once you have made the electronic copy of the
documents for the Department, please locate any electronic
copies of the above-referenced classified document in your
possession,” wrote Kennedy, who served under Clinton at the
State Department. “If you locate any electronic copies, please
delete them. Additionally, once you have done that, please empty
your ‘Deleted Items’ folder.”
Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group that released
the correspondence, said that the order to delete the e-mail
smacks of a cover-up. “Why on Earth would John Kerry’s State
Department tell Mrs. Clinton to delete classified Benghazi
records before finding out where and how this material had been
disclosed?” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “That the
State Department asked Clinton’s lawyer to destroy federal
records shows a level of disdain for the rule of law that goes
beyond the pale.” In any event, Kendall declined Kennedy’s
entreaty, citing requests from two inspectors general and the
House panel investigating the Benghazi attacks that he preserve
the records. “I therefore do not believe it would be prudent to
delete, as you request, the above-referenced e-mail from the
master copies or the PST file that we are preserving,” he wrote
to Kennedy. “Once the document preservation requests referenced
above expire, we will proceed to make the requested deletions.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424217/state-dept-asked-
hillary-delete-classified-email-please-empty-your-deleted-items
permanently delete a classified e-mail related to the Benghazi
terrorist attack, but her lawyer refused because a congressional
investigation into her use of a private e-mail server was
already underway.
In a May 22 letter to Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall,
Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy notified the Clinton
team that a November 8, 2012 e-mail about a “report of arrests —
possible Benghazi connection” was deemed classified and should
be deleted. “Once you have made the electronic copy of the
documents for the Department, please locate any electronic
copies of the above-referenced classified document in your
possession,” wrote Kennedy, who served under Clinton at the
State Department. “If you locate any electronic copies, please
delete them. Additionally, once you have done that, please empty
your ‘Deleted Items’ folder.”
Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group that released
the correspondence, said that the order to delete the e-mail
smacks of a cover-up. “Why on Earth would John Kerry’s State
Department tell Mrs. Clinton to delete classified Benghazi
records before finding out where and how this material had been
disclosed?” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “That the
State Department asked Clinton’s lawyer to destroy federal
records shows a level of disdain for the rule of law that goes
beyond the pale.” In any event, Kendall declined Kennedy’s
entreaty, citing requests from two inspectors general and the
House panel investigating the Benghazi attacks that he preserve
the records. “I therefore do not believe it would be prudent to
delete, as you request, the above-referenced e-mail from the
master copies or the PST file that we are preserving,” he wrote
to Kennedy. “Once the document preservation requests referenced
above expire, we will proceed to make the requested deletions.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424217/state-dept-asked-
hillary-delete-classified-email-please-empty-your-deleted-items
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