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Posted on 05/12/2013 2:31:19 PM PDT by Third Person
Thomas Pickering - the former UN ambassador who along with former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen prepared the Accountability Review Board report on the State Department's handling of the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya - says he didn't think it was necessary to interview former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "because in fact we knew where the responsibility rested."
BOB SCHIEFFER: And good morning again. Ambassador Thomas Pickering is the one who led the State Department's investigation into how those Benghazi attacks where handled. Mr. Ambassador, you and I have known one another as you had various posts in the government for many, many years. You headed this investigation. But the three state department employees who testified this week where frustrated with the report--they said it was incomplete, one of them, Greg Hicks, even told investigators his words, not mine, it let people off the hook. Is that a fair criticism?
AMBASSADOR PICKERING: I don't believe so and I think that's an unfair criticism. They've tried to point a finger at people more senior than where we found the decisions were made. The decisions were made and reviewed at the level that we fixed responsibility for failures of performance.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
They interviewed Secretary Clinton but they didn’t ask her any questions. That must have been some interview.
He also said they did not record any of the statements. How convenient .
she’s still on her “listening tour”....
As with all thing Hillary, the buck always stops a couple of layers down.
Hey, that's nothing. He also said that because she took full responsibility, she's not responsible for anything.
Pickering is a scumbag. Right at the top of the rogue’s gallery.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board.aspx
Where trouble is, the crisis group can usually be found stirring the pot and calling for American intervention.
Typical Democrat cover-up. Did anyone expect anything else from this bunch?
Knew the facts ahead of time, did he? Presupposition anyone? Sounds like how they determine globull warming.
I guess the SOS is out of the loop when the POTUS or the VP cannot be awakened!
That’s why they went to VJ to get standown orders!
Even if Bummer was awake it was above his pay grade!
I thought she was on a drinking tour.
Nice try Pickering.
Pickering on not questioning Clinton: “I don’t think that there was anything there that we didn’t know.”
Try asking Hillary some questions. You might find out something you didn’t know.
I call BS on his statement.
I have heard alot about who did what. Is there anyone out there that can say factually what the procedure is when a Ambassador is under attack and who calls these shots.
Nope.
They’re all filthy liars.
He’s afraid of the truth!
NOT that Hillary would tell the truth.
Right.
You’re right.
You’re right.
He’s a 32 year career DIPlow-mat, but he’s a Clinton supporter from way back.
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