State Dept. Releases Hillary’s Benghazi Emails, Site Quickly Crashes

The State Department today released Hillary Clinton‘s Benghazi emails, and the website they posted them to very quickly crashed.

Earlier this week the department said they’d be releasing a full report on Clinton’s emails in time, with a planned release date in January 2016. A federal judge rejected that and ordered a “rolling release” of the emails instead.

They released roughly 300 emails today, reportedly including all of Clinton’s Benghazi-related emails, tweeting this out beforehand:

The emails we release today do not change the essential facts or our understanding of the events before, during, or after the attacks.

— Department of State (@StateDept) May 22, 2015

The site where they posted all the emails very quickly crashed, but some reporters already tweeted various highlights in the email dump:

Here's a link to the email Clinton received now deemed to be classified. About possibly Benghazi-related arrests http://t.co/TvQl3RIO5P

— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) May 22, 2015

Hillary asks aide about CIA cable saying "there was no demo" in Benghazi pic.twitter.com/yzJnsqXtol

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) May 22, 2015

Email with Hillary's revised Benghazi talking points is completely redacted pic.twitter.com/A3uGN0erHW

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) May 22, 2015

Email between Hillary and Cheryl Mills after Greta Van Susteren and John McCain were talking on air about concussion pic.twitter.com/rshrtne4HS

— Alex Pappas (@AlexPappas) May 22, 2015

[h/t CNN]
[image via Chatham House]

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