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Judicial Watch: New Benghazi Documents Reveal September 11, 2012, Hillary Clinton 'Call Sheet' Describes Benghazi Assault as Attack by 'Armed Extremists'
Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5172
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2016 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch today released new State Department Hillary Clinton documents that contain a "call sheet" background document for Clinton that called the Benghazi attackers "armed extremists." The documents also include a copy of Hillary Clinton's schedule that shows she met with then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice and attended a meeting in the White House situation room before the arrival ceremony for the remains of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty.
The documents also detail for the first time that Turkish officials provided intelligence on the attack and offered to "shelter" Americans in the Benghazi residence of the Turkish Consul General. The documents confirm earlier reports that the Obama administration relied upon Turkey to be the "protecting power," safeguarding the lives of Americans in Libya after the closure of the American embassy in 2011.
The documents were obtained under a court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed on September 4, 2014, (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01511)), seeking:
• All records related to notes, updates, or reports created in response to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. special mission compound in Benghazi, Libya. This request includes, but is not limited to, notes taken by then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton or employees of the Office of the Secretary of State during the attack and its immediate aftermath.
A September 11, 2012, call sheet states: "Armed extremists attacked U.S. [special mission compound in] Benghazi on September 11, setting fire to the Principal Officer's Residence and killing at least one American mission staff, Information Management Officer Sean Smith, on TDY from The Hague." Unlike other call sheets, the agency withholds the identity of the foreign leader for whom the Benghazi background information was prepared. The State Department cites three exemptions for the block of text that includes the name of the person she called: E.O. 13526, Sec. 1.4(d), which allows for the classification of information related to foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources; FOIA Exemption b(1), which allows for the withholding of properly classified material; and FOIA Exemption b(5), which protects inter- or intra-agency communication that is deliberative/pre-decisional in nature.
A copy of Hillary Clinton's schedule for September 14, 2012, shows she met with then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice in the morning and attended a meeting in the White House situation room in the afternoon just before attending the arrival ceremony for the remains of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty. The families of those killed at Benghazi claim that at the memorial service Clinton blamed an internet video for the attack. She is alleged to have promised the father of Tyrone Woods to "have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of your son."
