The congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya said Monday they had uncovered new emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that she did not reproduce voluntarily.
The Select Committee on Benghazi, led by top instigator Rep. Trey Gowdy, has petitioned Clinton and her former aides to reveal what they know about the attack at an American diplomatic compound that killed four Americans. Gowdy’s recent attention has turned to any emails between Clinton and Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal, who met behind closed doors with committee members last week.
Gowdy’s committee has located emails between the pair and is asking the State Department to turn over their copies of the correspondence by the end of the day. The committee believes almost half of Clinton’s public record on the attacks can be uncovered by looking at her emails with Blumenthal.
“Once again the Benghazi Committee uncovers information that should already be part of the public record but was not made available to the American people or congressional investigators,” said Gowdy, a Republican from South Carolina. “For that reason, the committee has made the decision to release the latest set of Clinton’s public records unearthed by the committee.”
Gowdy’s committee released 179 pages of emails on Monday. The emails that Blumenthal produced in response to the committee’s request numbered about 120 pages.
Clinton has said that the emails she received were “unsolicited,” but the committee believes the new emails show that not to be the case.