Newly-released emails between top aides to Hillary Clinton and President Obama reveal the extent of coordination between the State Department and the White House in the hours after a 2012 terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
The records, obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act earlier this month, indicate then-White House deputy strategic communications adviser Ben Rhodes signed off on statements from State Department officials regarding the emerging situation in Libya.
"We are holding for Rhodes clearance," Victoria Nuland, then a State Department spokesperson, wrote of drafted press statements the evening of September 11, 2012.
Bernadette Meehan, spokesperson for the National Security Council, circulated press statements to State Department and White House staff the morning after the attack and detailed the plan to "ensure we are all in sync on messaging for the rest of the day."
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