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 Emails are shedding more light on how Hillary Clinton handled the aftermath of the 2012 attack on the United States’ diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, according to a report Monday from The New York Times. 
 
 Four senior government officials provided descriptions of some of the most significant messages to the Times, but only on condition of anonymity for fear of losing their access to the secret information. 
 
 Following an October 2012 hearing on the attack, the secretary of state messaged a close adviser. 
 
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 “Did we survive the day?” she asked, to which the adviser replied: “Survive, yes.” 
 
 The emails did not provide any evidence for Republican claims that Clinton gave a “stand down” order to stop American troops from responding to the Benghazi attack or took part in a subsequent cover-up, according to senior American officials that the Times consulted. But they do suggest that her claim to have almost always used her advisers’ State Department email accounts for official business warrants close scrutiny. 
 
 The emails also reveal that Clinton and her aides were relieved that she did not characterize the Benghazi attacks in the same way that Susan Rice, then serving as ambassador to the United Nations, did on news programs the following Sunday. (Rice’s appearance on the Sunday shows became a focal point of Republican attacks on her fitness to serve a secretary of state, and she ultimately withdrew her name from consideration.) 
 
 The Times also reports that Clinton’s emails, which have not been made public, include notes related to schedules, logistics and a POLITICO breaking news alert forwarded by a senior aide. 
 
 Clinton, who used a private email account tied to a server at her home in Chappaqua, New York, admitted earlier this month that she should have handled her email differently. 
 
 The emails related to Benghazi were part of roughly 30,000 that Clinton handed over from her personal email account to the State Department, which then passed along around 300 messages related to Benghazi or Libya to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. 
 
 Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), who chairs that committee, granted Clinton an extension to respond to a subpoena asking for her private emails on the attacks last week. Clinton now has until this Friday to respond to the request. 

 Hillary Clinton’s top aides used their personal email accounts to correspond with her about the attack in Benghazi while she was secretary of state, the New York Times reported Monday. 
 
 That detail comes after Clinton, earlier this month, held a news conference to address questions about her use of her personal email account to conduct official business while she was in office. During that event, she said “vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department.” 
 
 Critics said the likely presidential contender’s use of her personal email account may prevent official records from becoming public. Clinton’s email was run from its own server out of her New York state home, and she has said that she deleted thousands of emails she deemed personal. 
 
 About 300 emails have been turned over to the congressional committee investigating the Benghazi attack, the New York Times reported. Some of those emails, according to people who saw them and described them to the Times, showed Clinton and her staff reacting as the Obama administration’s explanation of what happened in Benghazi changed from a “spontaneous” attack — as then-United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice called it — to a planned act of terrorism. 
 
 Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s foreign policy adviser, kept her updated on the developments, the Times reported:
– The New York Times is offering a look into Hillary Clinton's emails as secretary of state—though that glimpse comes via anonymous officials rather than the 300 or so Benghazi-related emails she turned over to the House last month. Despite allegations by some Republicans, there's no indication in the emails that Clinton called on US forces to "stand down" during the Benghazi attack, nor is there any sign that the Obama administration worked to hide its response, officials tell the Times. Clinton's team does, however, come across as glad she wasn't the one to present the administration's original take on the cause of the attacks—a much-criticized job that went to then-UN ambassador Susan Rice. "You never said ‘spontaneous’ or characterized (the attackers') motivations," one Clinton aide wrote to her. And after her emotional testimony before the Senate, she emailed a top aide: "Did we survive the day?" The emails do add fuel to concerns about Clinton's use of private email, however. The former secretary of state has said that the "vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses," meaning they'd be preserved, BuzzFeed reports—but in some of the exchanges revealed, Clinton sends her communications to their private email addresses, the Times notes. Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, head of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, has given Clinton until Friday to reply to a subpoena regarding the Benghazi emails, Politico reports. Meanwhile, all this appears to have hurt her poll numbers.