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John Bolton: Hillary Clinton Came Up With 'Diplomatic Illness' To Avoid Benghazi Testimony
HuffPo ^ | 18/12/12 | Nick Wing

Posted on 12/18/2012 1:09:25 PM PST by Eleutheria5

John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador under President George W. Bush, suggested Monday night that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fabricated a "diplomatic illness" in order to dodge scheduled testimony this week on the Sept. 11 anniversary attack in Benghazi, Libya.

Speaking on Fox News, Bolton claimed "every foreign service officer in every foreign ministry in the world" is familiar with coming up with such "diplomatic illnesses" when they "don't want to go to a meeting or a conference, or an event."

"And this is a diplomatic illness to beat the band," Bolton said of recent news that Clinton had fainted and suffered a concussion over the weekend after earlier battling a stomach virus that resulted in a rare cancellation of an overseas trip. He went on to add that he hoped Clinton wasn't going through anything "serious."

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, responded to the report by insisting that Clinton not testify as planned on Thursday this week.

Despite Kerry's decision to call forth Clinton's deputies to testify in her place, Bolton said that he believed she'd have to testify at some point on the attack, which claimed the lives of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

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To: newfreep

Do I have this right.

The incumbent who failed to provide the requested security and then lied about the attack for twelve days is still in the position?

But the person who the wh sent out with false info withdrew her name in shame?


41 posted on 12/18/2012 3:38:42 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: D-fendr

So modified post.


42 posted on 12/18/2012 3:49:21 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Eleutheria5
You're very welcome. The story is also on NewsMax and Politico.
43 posted on 12/18/2012 3:52:29 PM PST by Flotsam_Jetsome ("Obama": His entire life is Photoshopped.)
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To: Eleutheria5

44 posted on 12/18/2012 4:17:18 PM PST by McBuff
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To: Dick Bachert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Foster

Like, GWB, his middle name was “Walker”. He is buried in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Hope, Arkansas.


46 posted on 12/18/2012 4:27:45 PM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Eleutheria5

The old bag has got herself a bad case of Testimony-Pneumonia and the Benghazi-Flu.....

It probably came out of a bottle of bourbon.


47 posted on 12/18/2012 4:34:28 PM PST by Iron Munro (I MISS AMERICA !)
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To: McBuff

One state that I doubt HRC can win is AR, where they were “on to her”, but their love of “Bill” won out over common sense.


48 posted on 12/18/2012 4:38:16 PM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: From The Deer Stand
And once again the Democrats outsmart the Republicans.

When is the last time, that they did not?

49 posted on 12/18/2012 4:44:18 PM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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To: Eleutheria5
This is how she "takes full responsibility"...

"I take responsibility," Clinton told CNN in an interview while on a visit to Peru. "I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts. The president and the vice president wouldn't be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. They're the ones who weigh all of the threats and the risks and the needs and make a considered decision."

50 posted on 12/18/2012 4:45:03 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
so she can perfect the art of lying to a bunch of people without laughing halfway through it

Honest I just came in the room this morning and there the files lay, I don't know how I could have overlooked them for eight months, but there they are.

51 posted on 12/18/2012 4:46:30 PM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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To: C210N

Since Waco, when Janet Reno “took full responsibility” for the massacre and debacle, ‘taking full responsibility’ has meant, ‘now shut up and stop asking me questions’. The buck stops here on my desk and never touches me.


52 posted on 12/18/2012 4:51:45 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: grobdriver

I think she is a witness to obama telling them what to say. If she lies, it is her political end. Leon Panetta was sitting right there in the room and he refused to lie!! She knows Leon will be called again to testify. This is much bigger than watergate. People died here!! at 4:30 on September 11 they were all watching live tv and listening to the battle on satellite link. Obama instructed them to say it was the video. !!!~ then we have Betrayus lying to congress on September 12 at the very time Leon Panetta is telling the truth with a whisper. This is big folks. She is in the biggest dilemma of her life since she destroyed the Whitewater billing records IN THE WHITEHOUSE!! She is also a colossal failure as Secretary of state. Everything she touches turns to DooDoo


53 posted on 12/18/2012 4:56:35 PM PST by willowdean
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To: Eleutheria5
familiar with coming up with such "diplomatic illnesses" when they "don't want to go to a meeting or a conference, or an event."

It's a liberal illness. JJ, Jr claims bi-polar. Funny how 'rats illnesses are 'in the head' by their own admission.

54 posted on 12/18/2012 5:14:10 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: SparkyBass

TERRIFIC!


55 posted on 12/18/2012 5:31:20 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Go Galt!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Very convenient timing, especially considering that everyone is focused on the Sandy Hook murders and gun control debate right now.


56 posted on 12/18/2012 5:34:30 PM PST by Random_User_250 ("Democracy is indispensable to socialism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

I bet the Dems will not require her to testify....Repubs probably wouldn’t if they were in control of the Senate. She is Hillary Clinton and does pretty much just as she pleases.


57 posted on 12/18/2012 5:38:45 PM PST by jch10 (7th generation Floridian)
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To: Eleutheria5
Accountability? What accountability? I DON GOTTA SHOW YOU NO ACCOUNTABILITY!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wse_hgca220

58 posted on 12/18/2012 6:45:17 PM PST by PapaNew
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To: Mr. K

Yeah. Right. No EMS call, no hospital, the self diagnosis of concussion (with possible amnesia?). Gimme a break.

She and everybody around her are terrified of testifying. Obama is total teflon, much more than Bill, since while Bill may have been the “first black president,” Bambi has more melanin, even though he’s not African American in the classical sense. This means that protecting him would have no cost, and that nothing would happen either to them or to him.

So what is so horrible that the entire regime is having the dog eat their homework?


59 posted on 12/18/2012 7:28:54 PM PST by livius
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To: Eleutheria5

Hilly’s 2016 Campaign Benghazi Massacre File.


60 posted on 12/18/2012 8:18:35 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Communal Obama"care" violates Anti-Trust Laws, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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