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US didn’t get all of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails

Hillary Clinton spoke during a presidential campaign stop in Missouri earlier this week.Jeff Roberson/AP

WASHINGTON — Despite assertions by Hillary Rodham Clinton that she provided the State Department with all of her work-related e-mails from the personal account she used exclusively when she was in office, the department has received several related to Libya that she had not handed over, according to officials at the agency.

The e-mails that Clinton did not give to the State Department were between her and her longtime confidant and adviser Sidney Blumenthal. He did not work for the department at the time but was routinely sending her intelligence memos on Libya.

There are 15 e-mails that Blumenthal gave to the House committee looking into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that the State Department cannot find among the e-mails that Clinton handed over last year, according to a State Department official. The House committee gave those e-mails to the State Department this month. A spokesman for Clinton did not return an e-mail seeking comment.

Clinton has said that she provided the State Department with about 30,000 e-mails that were related to her work as secretary of state. She said that she deleted roughly the same number from the account, saying those messages “were private, personal” ones.

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Questions about whether Clinton gave the State Department all of her work-related e-mails emerged in recent weeks. On June 12, Blumenthal gave the House committee about 60 e-mails related to Libya that he exchanged with Clinton.

Blumenthal handed them over in response to a subpoena from the committee. Many of these e-mails had not been given to the committee by the State Department.

Concerned that the State Department had withheld the e-mails from the panel, its chairman, Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina sent a letter to the agency asking why it had not been given the e-mails and whether Clinton had handed them over. The agency then went through the e-mails Clinton had turned over, discovering there were some Blumenthal had given to the committee that Clinton had not handed over.

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