Shortly after the story appeared, the committee then redacted Koussa’s name from the subject line.
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He then publicly released the full text of the Blumenthal email with the name of the CIA source redacted.īut, as Yahoo News pointed out in a story published this morning, Gowdy’s release included Blumenthal’s subject line - which had Koussa’s name in it. Gowdy quickly pushed back on Sunday, countering that the Blumenthal email still contained “sensitive” information that should have been protected. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the panel’s ranking Democrat, which he released publicly.īut over the weekend, the CIA undercut Gowdy’s assertion by informing the committee it did not seek any redactions in that or 126 other Blumenthal emails sent to Clinton, a sign that the panel did not view the information as classified. “Armed with that information, Secretary Clinton forwarded the email to a colleague - debunking her claim that she never sent any classified information from her private email address,” wrote Gowdy in an Oct.
Trey Gowdy because just two weeks ago he had sought to make an issue over Clinton’s handling of an email that contained Koussa’s name.Īt the time, Gowdy said, an email sent to Clinton on March 18, 2011, by her longtime friend and adviser Sidney Blumenthal contained the “name of a human source” for the CIA and was therefore “ some of the most protected information in our intelligence community.” The incident was especially awkward for GOP chairman Rep.
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