The State Department on Friday released 296 emails that come from a personal address Hillary Clinton used while she was secretary of state.
All those emails relate to the 2012 attack on an American outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The State Department released the emails at Clinton's request. Those emails were also given to a government committee whose purpose is to investigate the Benghazi assault.
Clinton handed over 55,000 pages of emails from a personal address to the State Department in 2014, all of which she said pertained to her work as secretary of state.
The emails we release today do not change the essential facts or our understanding of the events before, during, or after the attacks.— Department of State (@StateDept) May 22, 2015
Though the State Department released the emails at 12:30 p.m. ET, the website was initially taking a huge amount of time to load. Mashable is continuing to post any significant and/or interesting updates here as we have them.
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The New York Times published a report on Thursday with an early look through a portion of the emails, detailing some of the more noteworthy findings.
The Times reported that Clinton had "sensitive but unclassified" information in her personal account, and that she was in frequent contact with a former adviser named Sidney Blumenthal regarding Libya. Blumenthal, who wasn't working for the government at the time, reportedly sent Clinton "several memos" regarding the attack in Benghazi, which a Clinton spokesperson said were unsolicited.