Well, as it turns out, the RNC information request does seek documents on “Secretary Clinton and her senior advisers” and specifically lists Mills, Abedin, and Reines. “The American public deserves to know whether Secretary Clinton and her top aides complied with the same policy directive applicable to all other State Department employees,” RNC research director Raj Shah wrote in a letter to the State Department. So Psaki will now know that yes, other Clinton-era State Department officials are included on the RNC request.
The OF-109 scuffle, not hugely important in itself, does point to a larger issue in the Clinton email affair: Hillary Clinton is not the only one involved. Aides in the circle closest to Clinton (then and now) were in on the @clintonemail.com system and presumably communicated with Clinton — in a fashion completely removed from the State Department system — on issues that reached beyond yoga or Chelsea’s wedding. Has Clinton turned over all of those internal @clintonemail.com communications to the State Department?
And what about the House Select Committee on Benghazi? If it is unsatisfied with the cooperation, or lack of cooperation, it receives from Clinton, can it seek another path toward the information through Mills, Abedin, and Reines? The answer is pretty obviously yes.
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