Feds dump heavily redacted Benghazi emails on Christmas Eve

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Thursday released 16 pages of sensitive documents related to the 2012 Benghazi terror attack.

The documents, released ahead of the Christmas holiday, include mostly blacked-out emails and some press clippings about events in Libya after the attack on the U.S. embassy, which left four Americans dead. The event has become a central part of Republican criticism of Hillary Clinton's time as Secretary of State as she runs for president.

A few of the heavily redacted emails discuss the drafting of an assessment of the threat level before the attack occurred. Congress had requested the assessment in the months after the attack.

The emails hadn't been requested by any particular group, instead released as part of a "proactive disclosure" under the Freedom of Information Act that governs which public documents may be made available to the public.

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