by JUDICIAL
WATCH
(Washington, DC) - Judicial
Watch today released new State Department documents showing
that Hillary Clinton and the State Department's response to the Benghazi
attack was immediately determined by top Obama White House officials,
particularly Ben Rhodes, then-White House deputy strategic communications
adviser, and Bernadette Meehan, a spokesperson for the National Security
Council. The new documents were forced from the U.S. State Department
under court order in a Judicial Watch
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No.
1:14-cv-01511)).
Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request on June
13, 2014, and subsequently a lawsuit on
September 4, 2014, seeking:
Any and all
records concerning, regarding, or related to notes, updates, or reports
created in response to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate
in Benghazi, Libya. This request includes, but is not limited to, notes
taken by then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton or employees of the
Office of the Secretary of State during the attack and its immediate aftermath.
A September 11, 2012, email sent
at 6:21 p.m. by State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland to Meehan,
Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, and Clinton's personal
aide Jacob Sullivan shows that the State Department deferred to the White
House on the official response to the Benghazi attack. Referencing
pending press statements by Barack Obama and Clinton, Nuland wrote:
"We are holding for Rhodes clearance. BMM, pls advise asap."
Meehan responded three minutes later...
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