Posted on 04/28/2015 8:05:07 AM PDT by TexasCajun
(CNN)-The day after the Benghazi terror attack, a staffer for Arizona Sen. John McCain emailed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's office to convey praise for her remarks to State Department employees after the attack.
Her statement to employees about the tragedy was "wonderful, strong and moving," said the McCain staffer, who asked Clinton's office to convey the senator's appreciation of the remarks.
Ultimately, McCain turned into a fierce critic of Clinton over the attack. And Clinton's handling of Benghazi has been scrutinized and has cast a shadow over her tenure leading the State Department. But the friendly exchange between their two offices in the immediate aftermath of the 2012 attack is among a set of emails that could be publicly released by the State Department as early as this week.
CNN was not permitted to review the emails ahead of their release, but several government officials characterized them and offered detail on some of them on the condition of anonymity.
The emails show Clinton and her inner circle closely monitored the fallout of the incident and the administration's evolving view of what occurred the night of the attack. They expressed concern with how it could impact the State Department and her own image.
The contents of the emails provide a more comprehensive picture of Clinton's email use and her handling of the attack, two subjects that could challenge her fledgling presidential campaign. Clinton asked the State Department to publicly release the emails after it emerged that she used a private email server to do government business earlier this year.
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CNN attempts to whitewash Hillary & Benghazi:
Check out this howler:
Then-ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice's appearances on Sunday morning talk shows became a lightning rod for Republicans, who criticized Clinton at the time for avoiding public statements on the controversy. Administration officials had said at the time that Clinton was exhausted after a grueling week.
On the talk shows, Rice described the attack as a protest over an anti-Muslim video, which erupted spontaneously into violence. Clinton never made that characterization, and after intense Republican charges of downplaying the attack, administration officials began to call it a "terrorist attack."
Juan full of nonsense, as usual.
Ping!
All of which was thrilling to the Arizona Traitor.
Youtube:
Hillary Clinton calls anti-Muslim film, Innocence of Muslims 'disgusting and reprehensible'
While I think he would have had better people around him, I am not so sure I would have wanted him to be President.
The crazy old guy routine can get you only so far.
“the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?”--Hillary Clinton to Republican senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
“Administration officials had said at the time that Clinton was exhausted after a grueling week. “
When’s the last time you heard that excuse from a President of the United States? Never, you say?
CNN: “On the talk shows, Rice described the attack as a protest over an anti-Muslim video, which erupted spontaneously into violence. Clinton never made that characterization,”
Is CNN lying or is CNN uninformed as usual?
Hillary Clinton - “This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies OVER AN AWFUL INTERNET VIDEO that we had nothing do to with.”
Notice she wasn’t concerned about the loss of American lives. Only how it would impact the State Department and HER image. I have a few choice opinions about HER image, but, will restrain myself.
Spin or Lying — no difference.
That’s what I took away from this article. Her image. Well her image is a socialist, Marxist traitor. A thief, a liar, an enabler, a murderer, an adulterous grandma, an accomplice to rape. Not to mention an alynskite.
Wonderful image you cankled pig in a human suit.
Why did Hillary Clinton need her own secret, non-government intelligence gathering operation in Libya before the Benghazi incident?
We spend billions of dollars a year on national intelligence agencies, and she has to start her own?
Why?
What intelligence/information did she need that she wasn’t already getting?
Was she looking for Libyan military assets?
No. That is a Defense Department matter, not a State Department matter.
What was she looking for?
It’s like she didn’t want anyone to know that she was looking for something in Libya,
What is it that she would want, but she didn’t even want our government to know she was looking for it?
Money. Qadaffi’s money.
She’s a filthy, murdering thief who has endangered her fellow American citizens with her thievery.
Calling Hillary a Marxist is an insult to Marxists! Calling her a Socialist is an insult to Socialists. Marxists and Socialists have a high minded (and impossible) Idealism behind them—a vision of a better world for all. Hillary is only interest in a better world for her and her friends.
Yes, of course... we certainly couldn't express concern for the four dead Americans and the safety of others in that hot zone.
Typical Clinton thinking -- the first thought out the chute is, "is this going to make me look bad?"
Excellent graphic. May it go viral.
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