Or, more accurately, the Republicans on the special Benghazi committee concluded that. But according to a section of the Benghazi investigation that Bade obtained, the report "was consistently influenced by" Cheryl Mills, Clinton's former chief of staff. (In a statement to reporters, State Department spokesperson Mark Toner indicated there was no new evidence in the report.) The State Department did its own, too, which was intended to be internal but independent (think the watchdog report on Clinton's emails). Any such operation, which Politico's Bade reports Clinton herself supported but the administration never confirmed or denied, would have been top-level secret.

Source: Washington Post June 28, 2016 14:42 UTC