Benghazi? You're Still Bringing That Up?

If I've seen one meme, I've seen a million -- Hillary Clinton pwned/destroyed/utterly wrecked the nasty Republicans investigating (oh, I'm sorry, wasting millions on a witch hunt) Benghazi. Why are we still talking about it? Oh:

The State Department says about 30 emails that may be related to the 2012 attack on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI's recently closed investigation into her use of a private server.

Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta Tuesday that an undetermined number of the emails among the 30 were not included in the 55,000 pages previously provided by Clinton. The State Department's lawyer said it would need until the end of September to review the emails and redact potentially classified information before they are released.

Mehta questioned why it would take so long to release so few documents, and urged that the process be sped up. He ordered the department to report to him in a week with more details about why the review process would take a full month.

So, let's see. . . that means the following:

• Clinton has been lying, yet again, about saying the emails she had destroyed were not related to any investigations.
• Clinton attempted to destroy federal records. She wasn't able to destroy all of them, but we'll never know for sure what did get destroyed.
• The State Department is still stonewalling.
• The goal is to run out the clock.

The stench is getting tough to bear. Where is the Democratic John Dean? Where is the Democratic equivalent of Hugh Scott?

In praise of actual journalism

We wrote yesterday about the tendency of modern journalists acting as little more than stenographers for the ruling class. Fortunately, it's still possible to do some actual journalism, as this dispatch from McClatchy demonstrates:

The classified emails stored on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server contained information from five U.S. intelligence agencies and included material related to the fatal 2012 Benghazi attacks, McClatchy has learned.

Of the five classified emails, the one known to be connected to Benghazi was among 296 emails made public in May by the State Department. Intelligence community officials have determined it was improperly released.

That's a problem for the next Leader of the Free World. Why is that?

“Even if Secretary Clinton or her aides didn’t run afoul of any criminal provisions, the fact that classified information was identified within the emails is exactly why use of private emails . . . is not supposed to be allowed,” said Bradley Moss, a Washington attorney who specializes in national security matters. “Both she and her team made a serious management mistake that no one should ever repeat.”

There's a whole lot more in the linked article. All of it is worth your time.