Hundreds of Hillary Clinton e-mails pertaining to Benghazi released today. Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!

Courtesy of Time Magazine:

The State Department released hundreds of emails Friday that were stored on Hillary Clinton’s private server during her time as Secretary of State. The emails, which pertain to the Benghazi terror attacks in September 2012, do not change the official assessment of the incident in which a U.S. ambassador was killed, the State Department said. 

“The emails we release today do not change the essential facts or our understanding of the events before, during, or after the attacks, which have been known since the independent Accountability Review Board report on the Benghazi attacks was released almost two and a half years ago,” wrote spokeswoman Marie Harf. 

Clinton, who wants to avoid the controversy over her emails and Benghazi stretching into the primary and general election next year, told reporters in Hampton, N.H. on Friday that the released emails had previously been sent to the committee investigating the Benghazi attack in 2012. “I’m glad that the emails are starting to come out. It is something that I’ve asked to be done, as you know, for a long time. Those releases are beginning,” Clinton said.

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Clinton has asked that the State Department speed up the release of her work emails. “I’ve said from the very beginning that I want them to release all of them as soon as possible. They are in the process of doing that. I understand that there is a certain protocol that has to be followed,” Clinton said. “It’s beginning. I would like to see them expedited to get more of them out, more quickly.”

Doesn't sound like a person who has something to hide does it?

As reported by the Daily Beast there is no smoking gun in this e-mail dump:

If Republicans were looking for a silver bullet to use against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the State Department’s Friday document dump about Benghazi wasn’t it. 

There’s no illicit weapons Libyan program to be found in the emails, as some have speculated. No ‘stand-down’ order. Just a hectic flow of information to and from Hillary Clinton—about danger, about death, and ultimately, about condolences.

Of course the fact that these e-mails do not contain the smoking gun that the Republicans have been hoping for does not mean they have given up. Oh no, not them.

This from Reuters:

Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Republican who heads the Benghazi probe in the House of Representatives, said the emails made public on Friday "continue to reinforce the fact that unresolved questions and issues remain as it relates to Benghazi." 

He also complained that there was a significant gap in the emails between late April and July 4, 2012, a period when threats from militants in Benghazi were being more regularly reported.

Keep digging Gowdy, after all that is how your spirit guide Ken Starr found that stained blue dress.

Of course some conservatives simply cannot wait for investigations to find dirt on Hillary. They want to impeach her now, even though she is no longer Secretary of State and not yet the President.

This courtesy of something called Special Operations Speaks PAC. (SOS, get it?): 

Special Operations Speaks PAC is calling on the United States Congress to impeach former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for "high crimes and misdemeanors" pursuant to Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States in response to the following: 

1. As U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton absented herself from the besieged in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, costing four American lives: U.S. Ambassador Christopher J. Stevens, security officers and former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, and information officer Sean Smith.
 

2. As U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton received, through the Clinton Foundation, emoluments from foreign governments, despite Article I, Section 9, which proscribes the reception of foreign "gifts" by U.S. officials without the express consent of Congress.
 

3. As U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton unlawfully housed her official emails on a private server in violation of the Freedom of Information Act and to the detriment of national security. Take action and blast faxes to members of the U.S. Congress – Demand that they impeach Hillary Clinton and disqualify her from enjoying "any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" per Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 of the Constitution.

Gee, they at least let President Obama get elected first before they actively started to try and undermine his presidency and call for his impeachment.

To me it sounds like these people are flat out terrified of Hillary, which of course makes me all the more interested in seeing her win the 2016 election.

(H/T to Politicususa.)