Posted on 10/15/2012 7:33:27 PM PDT by Perdogg
just sent out this statement with Senator Kelly Ayotte and John McCain about the attack on our Consulate in Benghazi.
"We have just learned that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed full responsibility for any failure to secure our people and our Consulate in Benghazi prior to the attack of September 11, 2012. This is a laudable gesture, especially when the White House is trying to avoid any responsibility whatsoever.
"However, we must remember that the events of September 11 were preceded by an escalating pattern of attacks this year in Benghazi, including a bomb that was thrown into our Consulate in April, another explosive device that was detonated outside of our Consulate in June, and an assassination attempt on the British Ambassador. If the President was truly not aware of this rising threat level in Benghazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team, whose responsibility it is to keep the President informed. But if the President was aware of these earlier attacks in Benghazi prior to the events of September 11, 2012, then he bears full responsibility for any security failures that occurred. The security of Americans serving our nation everywhere in the world is ultimately the job of the Commander-in-Chief. The buck stops there.
"Furthermore, there is the separate issue of the insistence by members of the Administration, including the President himself, that the attack in Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video, long after it had become clear that the real cause was a terrorist attack. The President also bears responsibility for this portrayal of the attack, and we continue to believe that the American people deserve to know why the Administration acted as it did."
McCain didn’t call another emergency meeting did he?
McCain didn’t call another emergency meeting did he?
If only the media would put it in such honest and stark terms.
Exactly. By ‘taking one for the team’, Hillary shows her party loyalty and takes the fall to save a feckless man. This was thought out very well by the Impeached One. I am sure she would not have done this all by herself.
It is almost like the Impeached One tipped off John McCain. The letter he wrote with Sens. Graham and Ayotte hit the spot perfectly and was released very fast. I will credit McCain for having been on top of this issue since the assassination of the ambassador, but he appeared ready for when Hillary took the fall.
And Romney is supposedly getting intel briefings now. He must have a much clearer idea of what is going on...hopefully.
Put together by Freeper...zencycler
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