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The State Department’s second-ranking diplomat in Libya on the day that terrorists attacked the U.S. facilities in Benghazi and killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods says a key lesson Americans should take from that event is that officials in Washington, D.C. have a responsibility to make sure Americans serving their country abroad have the ability to protect themselves. “That did not happen in Benghazi,” says Gregory Hicks, who was the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli on Sept. 11, 2012. […] Hicks told CNSNews.com that he and Stevens saw the move...

The U.S.Department of Justice, on behalf of the United States, filed a motion in court Friday to get the lawsuit filed by the parents of Benghazi victims dismissed. The parents filed the lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, but the DOJ is now involved because the plaintiffs are suing her based on her actions as Secretary of State during the September 11 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. In the motion, Benjamin Mizer, with the DOJ’s civil division, said the plaintiffs hadn’t exhausted all of their administrative remedies before they filed a suit. On top of that, they claim the...

Most voters say that Hillary Clinton should have been indicted over her mishandling of classified information when she was secretary of state, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll. In the poll, voters said: The FBI should have sought a criminal indictment: 53 percent;The FBI made the right decision not to seek one: 39 percent.A large portion of voters believe that Clinton’s issues with classified information are an important factor in whom they choose for president. …

From: Bell, Paul Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 3:22 PM To: Democratic Press Secretaries Subject: Fact Sheets on Clinton Email Hi All— Happy Friday. Benghazi Select Committee Chairman Gowdy recently sent a letter to Clinton’s lawyer asking her to turn over her server. Benghazi Dems have put together these attached fact sheets regarding Clinton’s email use. Please take note of the first one which compares Gowdy’s approach to the standard Democrats used during the investigation into Bush Administration staffers sending official emails through private RNC email servers. Only the first fact sheet has been made available to press, so please...

... “All the media is Democrat and they love [Hillary],” Nakoula says matter-of-factly. “In November she will be the future president. I am telling you.” He’s no big fan of Clinton’s, though—he thinks she falsely framed him as having “blood” on his hands after Benghazi. In fact, Nakoula feels his chef-d’oeuvre was pretty underappreciated by America as a whole. “I made the movie because I was stupid. Because I thought we are live in a free country. I was stupid and I did a mistake,” Nakoula tells me during our first meeting at the church. “I should have go to...

The mother of a Benghazi victim who blames Hillary Clinton for her son’s death will attend the third presidential debate on Wednesday — as a VIP guest of Donald Trump. Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, a State Department IT consultant killed during the terrorist attack in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, told Yahoo News she would accept the mogul’s invitation to the final showdown between the candidates in Las Vegas. “I want to look in Hillary’s eyes, and have her lie to me again,” Smith told Yahoo News. In Smith’s speech to the Republican National Convention in July...

The mother of a Benghazi victim who blames Hillary Clinton for her son’s death will attend the third presidential debate on Wednesday — as a VIP guest of Donald Trump. Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, a State Department IT consultant killed during the terrorist attack in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, told Yahoo News she would accept the mogul’s invitation to the final showdown between the candidates in Las Vegas. “I want to look in Hillary’s eyes, and have her lie to me again,” Smith told Yahoo News.

“I think I’m going to be in the front row. But I’m not sure,” said Smith. . . . “I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son,” Smith said then. “Personally.”

These individuals note that the TNC officials are reacting to reports received during the week of April 25 from their own sources of information, the French General Directorate for External Security (DGSE), and British external intelligence service (MI-6), stating that AQIM has acquired about 10 SAM 7- Grail/Streela man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS or MPADS) from illegal weapons markets in Western Niger and Northern Mali. These weapons were originally intended for sale to the rebel forces in Libya, but AQIM operatives were able to meet secretly with these arms dealers and purchase the equipment.

No one understands better than yours truly – except perhaps Vince Foster and scores of others (including material witnesses) who mysteriously died in and around the Clinton administration during the 1990s – the treachery of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Indeed, I fought her and her husband tooth and nail during these years and am the only lawyer ever to have obtained a court ruling that a sitting president committed a crime – a finding made by now Chief Judge Royce Lamberth in the famous Filegate case, which involved Bill and Hillary Clinton illegally obtaining FBI files on perceived adversaries to intimidate...

FBI interview summaries and notes, provided late Friday to the House Government Oversight and Intelligence Committees, contain allegations of a "quid pro quo" between a senior State Department executive and FBI agents during the Hillary Clinton email investigation, two congressional sources told Fox News. In return for altering the classification, the possibility of additional slots for the FBI at missions overseas was discussed,” Chaffetz said. As Fox News previously reported, interviews released earlier this month, known as 302s, reveal the serious allegation that Kennedy applied pressure to subordinates to change classified email codes so they would be shielded from Congress...

A bombshell email reveals a Reuters reporter shared a secret document from the Benghazi investigation committee with Hillary Clinton's campaign. Reuters American investigative correspondent Mark Hosenball emailed Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta on April 21, 2015, telling him Hosenball had "a rather interesting document which outlines in detail the principal current objectives of the House Benghazi Committee," and that he was willing to show it to Clinton campaign operatives, according to an email published by WikiLeaks. "If you are anywhere near 1333 H in next day or two I might even show the document to you (I’m out on Thursday,...

From the moment that Sharyl Attkisson met a shadowy source I’ll call Big Mac, she was plunged into a nightmare involving mysterious surveillance of her computers. They met at a McDonald’s in Northern Virginia at the beginning of 2013, and the source (she dubs him Number One) warned her about the threat of government spying. During their next hamburger rendezvous, Big Mac told Attkisson, then a CBS News reporter constantly at odds with the Obama administration, that he was “shocked” and “flabbergasted” by his examination of her computer and that this was “worse than anything Nixon ever did.” Attkisson’s forthcoming...

WiKiLeaks: Leaked email reveals Hillary Clinton's team debating how to cover-up and spin the Benghazi story? WASHINGTON - Potentially damning new information has been revealed in leaked emails made available to the public by WikiLeaks. Email #9722 appears to show how Hillary Clinton's team used the Associated Press and State Department to destroy subpoenaed emails and cover-up the tragic events that occurred in Benghazi. You can read the entire leaked email from WikiLeaks here.

E-mail 9272 folks. I think the point can be made via noting that Sid was not a federal employee as needed (which as FYI means his emails only b/came federal records if used in the course of Dept business - so some were if forwarded and acted on and some weren't if nothing was done with them). But not sure it is worth the technical debate. So in your if pushed, you could say: >>> With regard to his materials, remember, Sid was never a federal employee. We do not know what these materials are, or where they came from....

Former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler told President Obama this week he should take her name out of consideration for the post of attorney general, White House officials confirmed Friday. “We can confirm the president asked Kathy to consider this, and she was among those the president had been looking at,” said a White House official who asked for anonymity in a written statement, referring to the search to replace retiring Attorney General Eric Holder. “Kathy took this step this week on her own volition—as she always has done, putting the president and the administration first.” The Associated Press first...

From: H Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:05 PM To: 'Russorv@state.gov' Subject: Fw: Fwd: Benghazi wasobama's3amcall Pisprint From: Cheryl Mills [mailto: B6 Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 08:2,7 PM To: H Subject: Fwd: Benghazi was obama's 3 am call

Below is a detailed list of noteworthy Podesta emails recently released by WikiLeaks – Hillary Policies – Hillary Clinton Dreams of ‘Open Trade and Open Borders’ Hillary Admits Saudi Arabia and Qatar Fund ISIS – But Took Their Money Anyway Hillary sat on Board that funded ISIS Hillary’s own advisor blamed Hillary for Benghazi Hillary bragged about being invited to Russia’s Putin’s ‘Inner Sanctum’ Hillary team picked Tim Kaine as VP in July 2015

But new evidence -- and a review of the public record -- reveals that Hillary Clinton’s actions in Libya were not just disastrous policy, but a violation of U.S. anti-terrorism law. A recent report to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British House of Commons concluded that Western intervention in Libya was based on "inaccurate intelligence" and "erroneous assumptions." Advocates failed to recognize that “the threat to civilians was overstated and that the rebels included a significant Islamist element," and the failure to plan for a post-Qaddafi Libya led to the "growth of ISIL" in North Africa. However, “inaccurate intelligence”...