The State Department is dragging its feet on delivering key documents requested by the House select committee investigating the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks, Rep. Mike Pompeo tells
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"They tell us they’re going to provide incremental documents to us," Pompeo, a Kansas Republican who is a member of that committee, said Thursday on "The Steve Malzberg Show."
"[But] they’re having to do a classification review. They now are going to, I fear, be even slower. That’s unacceptable. We’re now this far, this long into the investigation. They need to put the resources in place so that we can do our job."
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Hillary Clinton is set to testify before the committee Oct. 22, answering questions about the attacks, which occurred while she was secretary of state, as well as her use of a private server and email account when she was secretary of state.
The Justice Department is probing whether classified information — some possibly involving Benghazi — was illegally stored or passed through Clinton's private email server during her correspondences as secretary of state.
The server was turned over to the FBI on Wednesday after news broke that two classified emails found on it were "Top Secret."
The New York Times reported that Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, told aides to give the FBI the server along with a thumb drive containing copies of the emails.
Reports also surfaced that materials went through the server that had initially been marked top secret but then had those markings stripped off.
Pompeo, who is also a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told Malzberg:
"We've been working at this to figure out how to get all the information to complete the record so we can solve the riddle of how four Americans were killed. Now, [it's] almost three years ago, right? Sept. 11, 2012.
"We were pursuing these documents through the State Department and lo and behold we found out that systematically former Secretary Clinton had … intentionally been avoiding, making sure any of those emails got into the government system."
"She said that they all would’ve ended up on the government system, but that’s not correct. That’s a false statement. She was emailing back and forth to others on her server and to their private email accounts as well and we just don’t have a complete record."
Pompeo is pleased the server is now in the hands of the FBI, but added it should have happened sooner.
"I wish that server had been seized when we first came to understand that there was risk, that there was classified information on it," Pompeo said.
"Now, the FBI will be able to conduct their investigations to see if there were criminal conduct associated with the mishandling of top secret … information."
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