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| Hillary Clinton Emails Show Concern |
| Hillary Clinton Emails Show Concern About Image After Benghazi
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 22-May-2015
22:8:39 PM |
| Top aides to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fretted over how she would be portrayed after the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, emails released on Friday showed.
The emails from Clinton's personal email account made public by the State Department do not appear to contain any revelations that could badly damage her bid for the presidency in 2016 or provide fodder for Republicans who accuse her of being negligent before the Benghazi attacks.
But they offer a glimpse into how Clinton's team was concerned about her image immediately afterward.
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A senior adviser to Clinton forwarded an email from a State Department official about positive media coverage of a statement she gave on Sept. 12, 2012, the day after the killings.
"Really nice work guys," State Department official Matthew Walsh wrote in an email to other staffers, which linked to a story on the Slate news site praising Clinton's comments about Benghazi as "her most eloquent news conference as secretary of state." Sullivan passed the email on to Clinton with the letters "FYI."
In another email from September 2012, Sullivan assured the secretary of state that she had used the correct language to describe the lead-up to the Benghazi attack by Islamist militants on a US diplomatic compound and CIA base.
US officials' exact wording of the attackers' motivation had become important because the Obama administration initially said the assaults were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Islamic film posted on the Internet.
The US ambassador to the United Nations at the time, Susan Rice, drew heavy criticism from Republicans for defending this view on Sunday TV shows,
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