According to emails obtained by The New York Times and published Thursday, Clinton forwarded the email to Jake Sullivan, a top foreign policy adviser, requesting “More info.” The emails presented by the Times represent a third of the approximately 850 pages of emails from her personal account that have been turned over to the State Department.
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In a second memo the next day, Blumenthal noted “sensitive sources” in Libya said Ansar al-Shariah, an Al Qaeda-backed terror group, had planned the attacks for a month and used the protest as a cover. That information contradicted the official White House narrative at the time about the attacks’ genesis.
“We should get this around asap,” Clinton wrote in an email to Sullivan.
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