Obama Administration Delivers Benghazi Document Dump for Christmas

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The Obama administration on Christmas Eve released 16 pages of acutely redacted emails related to Benghazi .

Thursday's document dump, put out by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in compliance with a Freedom of Information request, includes correspondence sent from American intelligence officials in 2011 and 2012.

The emails — edited to conceal what is considered to be sensitive information — provide few new details about the lethal September 2012 terrorist attack on the diplomatic mission in Libya or American-born Al Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki.

In the first email, only two of 17 lines of text were not blacked out. Another email consists of the text "Attached it the final draft; we need comment/coordination by 1000, Friday (tomorrow) 19 October 2012," followed completely by blacked-out text. Other emails consist of the text of news clippings from Reuters, the Washington Post and other organizations.

In a February 2011 email, officials sent a memo in response to a State Department request regarding a possible revocation of al-Awlaki’s passport.

"The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) concurs with the proposal to revoke the U.S. passport of Anwar Nasser a!-AuJaqi," it reads.

Al-Awlaki, a recruiter for Al Qaeda, was killed in September 2011 in Yemen as a result of a U.S-led drone strike. The following year, news of the State Department having revoked Awlaki’s passport was reported.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/christmas-eve-email-document-release-217137

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Obama Administration Delivers Benghazi Document Dump for Christmas
Friday, December 25, 2015 02:01 PM

By: Sandy Fitzgerald

The Obama administration dumped 16 pages of emails related to Benghazi on Christmas Eve, but the documents are heavily edited to conceal what was considered as sensitive information, so few new details have been revealed about the Benghazi attacks or al-Qaida recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki.

The documents were released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, reports Politico, and include intelligence officials' communications from 2011 and 2012.

But only a few lines are visible in some of the emails. In one, just two of 17 lines of text were not redacted and in another, just the text "Attached it the final draft; we need comment/coordination by 1000, Friday (tomorrow) 19 October 2012," is visible.
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Further emails share news clippings, one February email in 2011 was sent to respond to a State Department in regard to al-Awlaki's passport being revoked.

Al-Awlaki was killed later that year, in September, during a drone strike in Yemen. It wasn't until the next year that it was reported that the State Department reported revoking his passport.

There were also memos in Thursday's dump that include details about using existing protocol to protect intelligence.

The Obama administration has also released such information during the holidays including in May, when it released a trove of 296 emails sent from Hillary Clinton's private server.

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The emails — edited to conceal what is considered to be sensitive information ...

And by "sensitive information," we of course mean anything fatal to the Hilldebeaste's political aspirations.