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Author Ed Klein: As Benghazi blame nears Hillary, Clintons grow furious
The Daily Caller ^ | 10/12/12 | Alex Pappas

Posted on 10/12/2012 2:10:52 PM PDT by justlittleoleme

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Klein said sources close to the Clintons tell him that Bill Clinton has assembled an informal legal team to discuss how the Secretary of State should deal with the issue of being blamed for not preventing the Benghazi terrorist attack last month.

White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters during a press conference Friday that responsibility for the consulate in Libya fell on the State Department, not the White House.

If blame for the security failures falls to Hillary Clinton, Klein said, it’s possible that she would even consider resigning over the issue.

“Bill is working on a number of strategies about what Hillary ought to do. He’s even gone so far as to play with various doomsday scenarios including up to the idea that Hillary would consider resigning over the issue if the Obama team tries to use her as a scapegoat,” Klein told TheDC in an interview.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 911ii; benghazi; benghazigate; billary; clinton; hillary; impeachnow; libya; obama; secstate; statedept; wagthevideo; waronterror
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To: TigersEye
I know, just kidding.

However, the amount of information coming out since the debate last night is going to outrun everybody's headlights. The WH, of course, if trying to pin this on State. In other words, it's Hillary's fault.

Do you think Bill and Hill are going to put up with that? Obama's support is crumbling. His administration is imploding.

He has only one way out. Look for a "wag the dog" scenario in Libya or Syria. The cassus belli has already occurred.

141 posted on 10/12/2012 5:53:29 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: randita
I wonder when those involved in the intel are going to stick their necks out?

When Ambassador Kennedy and others say they got it from "the intelligence community" I think they are speaking of non-existent beings. FWIW I think Issa was speaking of intel personnel when he said "whistle blowers" told the Oversight Committee 'no one ever said that.'

142 posted on 10/12/2012 5:58:24 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Bravada
Arkanicide vs. The Chicago Way.

Pass the popcorn!

143 posted on 10/12/2012 6:03:14 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: randita

Thanks for that link. Did they want to leave the Benghazi area open territory for terrorists for some reason? Sounds wild but what isn’t here?


144 posted on 10/12/2012 6:03:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: nascarnation

Yeah, whats he doing at north central?


145 posted on 10/12/2012 6:03:37 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (the mature Christian is almost impossible to offend)
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To: InvisibleChurch

It did seem like an odd choice. I would have expected them to use one of the IPS schools.


146 posted on 10/12/2012 6:07:30 PM PDT by nascarnation (Defeat Baraq 2012. Deport Baraq 2013)
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To: TigersEye

There may be an intel community but the message was spoken by one voice.

I suspect there is a circular path where the White House issued orders a bout what the intel should be and that was handed down to the voice that delivered the message to the White House.

Issa apparently got word from someone tangential to the circle


147 posted on 10/12/2012 6:09:08 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: TigersEye
Yes, that works as well, but maybe she messed with the wrong “spirator”. Bill and Hillary worked their deviance at one level, with Obama it is a whole new ball game, the likes of which we really don't comprehend yet. I don't even think those around him know what he is capable of.
148 posted on 10/12/2012 6:09:34 PM PDT by annieokie (O)
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To: blueunicorn6

funny, is that something like an initiation?


149 posted on 10/12/2012 6:23:31 PM PDT by annieokie (O)
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To: savedbygrace

———is not receiving accurate and timely intelligence ———

To receive there must be a receiver. Since the briefings were not attended, the delivery had to have been written. If not read, was it delivered?

Reading intel was likely at the bottom of a do list totally dominated by improving steadily declining re election chances.

It can be argued the President simply didn’t give a damn about anything but reelection. He lost track of reality.


150 posted on 10/12/2012 6:24:37 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: Former Proud Canadian
Here's what I think about that. I don't think either one can wiggle out of this. I don't think either one can try to throw the other under the bus without a fight to the death resulting in two fatalities. Notice that Amb. Kennedy pushed the new scapegoat, "intelligence community," pretty hard.

An anonymous martyr. Who do they belong to? State? WH? The only logical move for both 0 & H is to toss the CIA (Petraeus) under the bus. Think he'll go quietly?

Will the press and the people accept such a lame buck-passing excuse? It wouldn't hold water anyway.

151 posted on 10/12/2012 6:25:23 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: justlittleoleme

Hillary was involved in investigating Nixon; now she is to be investigated. She is seeing it all from both sides now.


152 posted on 10/12/2012 6:26:32 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: NonValueAdded
Well I think she is heavily damaged by what happened in Libya. It demonstrates management incompetence on her part. This likely due to naivety about Libyan rebel gratitude and her ingrained leftest reluctance to be believe the DOD & IC professionals as well having never personally run an organization larger then maybe her immediate secretary back in her Rose Hill Law Firm days. (I guarantee as both Arkansas and US First Lady she had "Chiefs-of-Staff" to manage the day-to-day activities of her respective staffs!)

It's typical liberal arrogance, thinking “I-am-so-brillant-I-don't-need-to-take-the-time-to-gain-experience-like-the-common-folk-do! If-a-nonIvy-League-or-even-a-high-school-grad-can-gain-managment-skills-, it-must-be-easy!”

153 posted on 10/12/2012 6:28:14 PM PDT by Reily (l)
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To: bert
Issa apparently got word from someone tangential to the circle

Everyone would be tangential to the circle you describe except 0bama.

154 posted on 10/12/2012 6:30:01 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: justlittleoleme
Hillary = LBJ.
I would not want to be on her enemies list.
155 posted on 10/12/2012 6:30:21 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Encourage all of your Democrat friends to get out and vote on November 7th, the stakes are high.)
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To: annieokie

I agree. I don’t think he is as bumbling and incompetent as he appears to be. I think 0 & H underestimate each other. Love to see them go hammer and tongs at each other. Tarantula vs. scorpion.


156 posted on 10/12/2012 6:34:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: annieokie
Let's not forget that **Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “has three family members—her late father, her mother, and her brother—connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations. Her position provides her with routine access to the Secretary and to policy-making.**
157 posted on 10/12/2012 6:43:59 PM PDT by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: TigersEye
This has been one of the most interesting and thought provoking posts I've read in a while. A lot of good links and background information. All plausible and no conspiracy nut sirens yet either.... What a mess this country is in....
158 posted on 10/12/2012 6:44:15 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: TigersEye

Cool, thanks.


159 posted on 10/12/2012 6:46:03 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: justlittleoleme
This mis where Ryan screwed up in the debate.

When Biden said "We didn't know" that the people in Libya requested more security, Ryan should have demanded to know who "We' was.

If the White House didn't know, why is it the State Dept didn't pass that information on? If so, then heads should roll inside the State Department, including Hillary.

If the State Department did pass that request to the White House and the "We" are Joe Biden and Barak Obama who were not informed, then heads should roll inside the White House starting with the Chief of Staff.

Or perhaps is was reported to the President in his Daily Intel Brief that he was too damn busy to read considering he had to rehearse for his Vaudeville act on Letterman.

IMHO, Ryan should have demanded to know who We are.

160 posted on 10/12/2012 6:47:49 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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