– Condolences –
There were also messages of condolences from senior State Department staff at the deaths of the four Americans, and tributes to Clinton for her speech at Andrews Air Force base when the bodies were brought home.
“Your remarks this afternoon at Andrews were wonderful,” wrote then deputy secretary Bill Burns on September 14. “Thanks for doing so much for our institution on such a sad day.”
Clinton and her staff also closely monitored an appearance by national security advisor Susan Rice when she took to the Sunday morning talk shows on September 16 to discuss the attack.
“She wasn’t asked whether we had any intel. But she did make clear our view that this started spontaneously and then evolved,” Sullivan wrote to Clinton.
“The only troubling sentence relates to the investigation specifically,” he added, after Rice told ABC television’s “This Week” that the administration would have to wait and see if things “might have unfolded differently in different circumstances.”
Many of the other emails appear to be press articles being forwarded to Clinton by her chief of staff Cheryl Mills and other aides.
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