Posted on 07/01/2016 6:12:33 PM PDT by Lorianne
The 800-plus-page report of the House Select Committee on Benghazi was released earlier this week. It slams former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her willful indifference to her obligation to repel military-style attacks on American interests and personnel at the U.S. Consulate and a nearby CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya. She particularly failed to save the lives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three of his colleagues, all under her care and control while she was secretary of state.
The report also slams Clinton for her repeated lies about the cause of the attacks. After she told her daughter in an email that the Benghazi consulate had been attacked by an organized terrorist group using heavy military hardware, she told her colleagues at the State Department that the attacks were a spontaneous overreaction by locals to an American-made internet video about the Prophet Muhammad.
After telling that lie, she sent another email, this one to the Egyptian foreign minister, repeating what she had truthfully told her daughter.
The Obama administration then spread the “internet video-inspired” myth by dispatching Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., to repeat it to five Sunday morning American television talk shows. This was met with profound disbelief in the diplomatic and intelligence communities. Yet, still unwilling to acknowledge the truth publicly, Clinton then retold the myth to the families of the four dead Americans in the presence of their loved ones’ bodies as the bodies were being reverently removed from a U.S. transfer plane at Joint Base Andrews.
What does all this say about the character of Clinton? How cold and heartless is she? How can she expect voters to reward her with the presidency when she failed to lift a finger to save Americans and then she repeatedly lied in public about her failures — while being truthful about them in private?
Yet the committee’s report is incomplete and has aroused dissent from some Republican members of the committee. The essence of their dissent is that the unstated and unacknowledged but true mission of the committee was not to reveal facts but to conceal them. There is ample evidence to support their argument that Benghazi was the unintended consequence of Clinton’s private war against Libyan strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
Yet the report does not delve into that.
The war against Gadhafi was, of course, never declared by Congress. It was conceived by Clinton, approved by President Barack Obama and agreed to by leadership in both houses of Congress and from both major political parties. It was supposed to be the crown jewel of Clinton’s foreign policy stewardship — ousting the dictator, replacing him with a democracy, putting no American boots on the ground and avoiding American bloodshed.
As is often the case in war, particularly illegal ones and especially secret ones, there were unintended consequences. Here the consequences have been the destruction of the government of an American ally, the imposition of mob-ruled chaos in Libya, the empowerment of terror groups in the Middle East, the deaths of innocent American civilians, the rejection of the rule of law and the obfuscation of the truth.
One of those who signed off on this secret war was the person who appointed the committee and its senior staff with personal loyalists — former House Speaker John Boehner. Another is a former congressman whose wife personally prospered from all this by serving as the go-between in the delivery of military hardware from Western sources to terror groups on the ground.
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"Everything I know about being a reptile I learned from Bill".
Nah. Who would believe it? She was born a snake.
Also in the article:
“Ambassador Stevens and the others were killed by heavy military hardware that Clinton and her colleagues permitted to make its way into the hands of terror groups.”
Basically, Clinton’s cabal murdered the Ambassador and others. She is evil.
Thank you for posting. The judge mentioned this on TV this week and I’ve not found it.
As long as we deal with Alakbars in the same way we deal with rabid dogs; I got no problem with it.
Have you seen this? FarretCON nails Hellary
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HI8fpRw_FFA
So who has Qaddafi’s gold?
Hillary and obama probably split it.
Same place as the six billion dollars missing from the state Department under Clinton !
Bills trip to Carribean on the Ecstasy Plane could have easily been a cover for moving gold and/or cash. His sexual reputation is ideal to keep eyes on the “other hand” while he commits an even greater crime
Yes, there are Republicans who should be ashamed of their behavior in regards to Benghazi.
There are military personnel who will be found to have not had their best performance during the Benghazi attack.
These people should resign if they are still working for us.
But the criminal proceedings belong to the Democrats.
What was our compelling national interest in overthrowing the government of Libya and killing Qadaffi?
There wasn’t one.
Libya was all about Hillary and Soros making money.
The attack at Benghazi was to draw the world’s attention to what Hillary was doing in Libya.
And then Obama and Hillary had to pay blackmail to cover up their crimes.
American weapons, night vision equipment and armored vehicles are shipped to Libya AFTER Benghazi and then left unguarded so they could be “stolen”?
Hillary Clinton “misplaces” $6,000,000,000 of hard-earned American Taxpayer provided money, and there is no attempt to find the money?
Bullshirt.
It was blackmail.
The Democrats were committing crimes in Libya with Soros. To hell with the lot of them.
Here is what Judge Napaleona was referring to this week
Hillary’s Illegal War Treason In Libya And Arms Supply To Terrorists including death to American government officials.
Hillary sold ILLEGAL ARMS to our enemies and I think took Ghadaffi’s GOLD!
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