Posted on 10/16/2012 10:35:03 AM PDT by xzins
Reporter Question: You say you don’t want to play a blame game, but certainly there’s a blame game going on in Washington. In fact, during the presidential debate, Vice President Biden said “We didn’t know.” …White House officials calling around saying “Hey, this is a state department function.”… Are they throwing you under the bus?
Hillary Clinton:
Oh, of course not, you know -- look I take responsibility.
I’m in charge of the state department – 60,000+ people all over the world, 275 posts.
Uhh..the president and the vice-president , uh, certainly wouldn’t be…uhh…knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals.
They’re the ones that weigh all of the threats and the risks and the needs and make a considered decision.
Reporter Question: The intelligence community initially called it a protest. The state department never did. And you never did. “This is where it now stands” and as you know republicans are charging that this was a cover up (Hillary laughs) Was this a rush to judgment or was it bad intelligence as Vice President Biden suggests?
Hillary Clinton:You know, Alise, I take a very different view of this. I have now for 20 years been very much in, uhh, the administration decision making, first with my husband, then after 9/11 working with President Bush, now, of course, in President Obama’s cabinet.
In the wake of an attack like this, in the fog of war, there’s always going to be confusion, and I think it is absolutely fair to say that everyone had the same intelligence.
Everyone who spoke… (Reporter interjects: bad intelligence?)…Well everyone who spoke tried to give the information that they had. As time has gone on, new information has changed, we’ve gotten more detail, but that’s not surprising. That always happens.
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Put together by Freeper...zencycler
That is outstanding. Thanks!
A wide range of officials then began the “mohammed video” scam that lasted days and days.
As I recall, Hillary herself alluded to the video in one of her public statements.
At the arrival of the coffins for one. Classless.
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