As Benghazi compound smoldered, Hillary Clinton couldn't remember the name of her dead ambassador to Libya
Emails released Friday by the State Department show the then-secretary inquired about Chris Stevens' death by asking about 'Chris Smith'
'Cheryl [Mills] told me the Libyans confirmed his death,' Clinton wrote her closest aides. 'Should we announce tonight or wait until morning?'
Stevens was the most senior of the four US casualties when al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militia laid waste to a diplomatic station in Benghazi
A US foreign service information management officer named Sean Smith was one of the other three men who were killed
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 17:00 EST, 22 May 2015 | Updated: 02:40 EST, 24 May 2015
Among the nearly 900 pages of Hillary Clinton's emails the U.S. State Department released on Friday is one that indicates she may have been confused, exhausted or careless on the September 2012 night when four Americans died in a Benghazi, Libya terror attack.
As U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other personnel lay dead and America's diplomatic outpost there lay in smoldering ruins, Clinton asked her three closest aides for advice about how to announce the death of 'Chris Smith.'
That name – the wrong one – was the subject line of the email Clinton sent them as night turned to day in Libya and the full extent of the Islamist terror attack was becoming apparent.
'Cheryl told me the Libyans confirmed his death,' Clinton, then the secretary of state, wrote. 'Should we announce tonight or wait until morning?'
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