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#5680 — State Department Asked Hillary to Delete Classified Benghazi E-mail

A top State Department official instructed Hillary Clinton to 
permanently delete a classified e-mail related to the Benghazi 
terrorist attack, but her lawyer refused because a congressional 
investigation into her use of a private e-mail server was 
already underway.

In a May 22 letter to Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, 
Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy notified the Clinton 
team that a November 8, 2012 e-mail about a “report of arrests — 
possible Benghazi connection” was deemed classified and should 
be deleted. “Once you have made the electronic copy of the 
documents for the Department, please locate any electronic 
copies of the above-referenced classified document in your 
possession,” wrote Kennedy, who served under Clinton at the 
State Department. “If you locate any electronic copies, please 
delete them. Additionally, once you have done that, please empty 
your ‘Deleted Items’ folder.”

Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group that released 
the correspondence, said that the order to delete the e-mail 
smacks of a cover-up. “Why on Earth would John Kerry’s State 
Department tell Mrs. Clinton to delete classified Benghazi 
records before finding out where and how this material had been 
disclosed?” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “That the 
State Department asked Clinton’s lawyer to destroy federal 
records shows a level of disdain for the rule of law that goes 
beyond the pale.” In any event, Kendall declined Kennedy’s 
entreaty, citing requests from two inspectors general and the 
House panel investigating the Benghazi attacks that he preserve 
the records. “I therefore do not believe it would be prudent to 
delete, as you request, the above-referenced e-mail from the 
master copies or the PST file that we are preserving,” he wrote 
to Kennedy. “Once the document preservation requests referenced 
above expire, we will proceed to make the requested deletions.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424217/state-dept-asked-
hillary-delete-classified-email-please-empty-your-deleted-items

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