US Department to hand over Benghazi attack-related files

The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the 2012 attacks on two U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, said the State Department has pledged to hand over 5,000 new pages of documents related to the incident on Tuesday, according to the Washington Post.

“The State Department has informed the Committee it will make a production of approximately 5,000 pages tomorrow — the second largest production the Committee has received and the largest since last summer,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman, said in a statement Monday.

The documents are not expected to include e-mails involving then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has been embroiled in a controversy over her use of a private e-mail account while the nation’s top diplomat.

At least four e-mails out of about 30,000 from Clinton’s private account contained classified information, according to a government inspector’s letter to Congress last week.

Clinton, who is the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, was secretary of state when Islamist militants attacked the compounds on Sept. 11, 2012, killing Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.