Judges bails on suit against Clinton over Benghazi deaths
By Josh Gerstein
10/18/16 07:45 PM EDT
A federal judge with a long history of sharp criticism of President Bill Clinton administration and some of his senior aides has bowed out of handling a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Hillary Clinton by the parents of two Americans killed in the 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi.
Patricia Smith, the mother of State Department information officer Sean Smith, and Charles Woods, the father of CIA operative Tyrone Woods, filed the case in federal court in Washington in August. The suit — brought by conservative attorney and longtime Clinton nemesis Larry Klayman — claimed that Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state compromised sensitive information about U.S. operations in Benghazi and led to the deaths of four Americans, including the younger Smith and Woods.
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