Clinton emails reveal Benghazi militant fears: report

May 21, 2015 23:06

One day after a deadly 2012 attack on a US mission in Libya, then secretary of state Hillary Clinton was told confidentially Al Qaeda linked militants were likely behind the assault, a US daily said today, publishing some of her emails.

Yet it took several days for the White House to admit it was probing whether Al-Qaeda had any links to the storming of the mission in Benghazi in which US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.

The State Department is poised to release a batch of emails that Clinton -- now bidding to be the next president -- sent from her private email address during her four-year tenure as secretary of state.

But some of her correspondence obtained by the New York Times Thursday gave an insight into Clinton's early concerns in 2011 about the disintegration of Libya, as well as casting light on the shadowy world of intelligence gathering.

Most of the emails were sent to Clinton from her long-time advisor and friend Sidney Blumenthal, quoting "sensitive" sources with direct access to top Libyan officials. They contain few comments from Clinton.

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