Posted on 08/18/2013 6:12:30 AM PDT by don-o
A spokesman for Hillary Clinton fired back Friday at what it called the “brazen deceit” of Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who earlier in the day said the former secretary of State shouted at lawmakers and deliberately lied to them in a private meeting about last year's deadly strike on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
Nick Merrill, a Clinton aide, provided the following statement to The Hill on the condition that it be run in its entirety.
“Here are the facts: on September 20th, 2012, nine days after the attack - not two as he falsely stated - Secretary Clinton was part of two large briefings held for the benefit of all 535 Members of Congress. Hundreds of House members were present for their session, and more than 90 Senators attended theirs. On January 23rd, 2013, she testified publicly before both the Senate and House. Those are the only two times Adam Kinzinger would have been within a mile of her.
"So we are to believe that he woke up today, 10 months and 27 days later, and suddenly remembered he heard something that 434 other people somehow missed? Not so much. What happened this morning was nothing short of brazen deceit.”
The rare response from Team Clinton could indicate the potential 2016 Democratic presidential nominee is fed up with Republican attempts to keep the Benghazi controversy in the news.
Earlier on Friday, Kinzinger said in an interview on "Fox and Friends" that he and other members of Congress had a private meeting with Clinton about the Benghazi attack, and that the she became agitated when someone suggested it might have been a terrorist attack.
“Basically, in a very loud angry voice she says, ‘it’s irresponsible to even suggest this is a terrorist attack, this is a YouTube video, we know that there are protests all over and we need to be very careful about how we say this,’ and basically chided this member of Congress,” Kinzinger said.
“I actually sat there in that meeting and said, 'well the secretary believes this is a YouTube video because of how passionately she’s arguing that,'” he continued. “But now we found out … that they knew this whole time that it was a terrorist attack, including when it was happening.”
Kinzinger wouldn’t reveal the name of the lawmaker that he says provoked Clinton’s ire, saying the member could come out on their own if they wanted to.
“I don’t care about the yelling so much – and she yelled,” Kinzinger said. “I care more about the fact that a member of Congress who has a right to know this and ask these questions was chided for asking about what we eventually found out was the truth.”
Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on Sunday news shows following the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks, and said intelligence indicated they were a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islam video circulating on the Internet. The administration later admitted Rice’s claim was wrong and labeled the event an act of terror.
The State Department has since said the agency was concerned that the preliminary talking points went too far in assigning blame for the attack and would have been inconsistent with what the White House had said at that early stage.
On Friday, Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade asked Kinzinger if he believed Clinton deliberately lied in the meeting.
“Absolutely,” he said. “If you look at the emails that were exchanged during the attack, they knew what was going on.”
Earlier this month, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sent a letter to the State Department demanding more information about the talking points the Obama administration used.
Issa says emails he obtained through a subpoena indicate that State Department leadership signed off on talking points that said the attack was due to a spontaneous protest, even though they were aware of a potential terrorist threat in the region at the time of the attack.
If she runs for President there will be so many wonderful attack ad sound-bites.
A Clinton complaining about “brazen deceit”??? Hahahahahahaha! That’s rich.
Clintoon and the head liar in the outhouse, have problems controlling even their liberal media re Benghazi.
There is no way they can control other outlets.
Below is a very interesting and different look at who might have been responsible for the killing of Ambassador Stephens and others at Benghazi, Assad.
Former Muslim Brotherhood Member tells us what the Government won’t about the Terror Attack in Benghazi
August 12, 2013
Dr. Mark Christian from the Global Faith Institute sent The Gateway Pundit his account of the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012:
Syrian president Bashar el Assad, Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah of Lebanon are fully responsible for the death of United States Ambassador Christopher Stevens. President Obama has known this fact since the minute he first learned about the attack.
Stevens, from his Benghazi base, was stockpiling weapons - and resourcing the expert fighters who could use them - to topple Assad’s rule in Syria. On September 11, 2012, Assad powerfully punched back, raiding the Benghazi compound which housed the armament for his own destruction. Though Assad’s reprisal resulted in the loss of four American lives, including Stevens, he forcefully conveyed that he would not be thrown out of the ring.
The Syrian uprising is not a simple “the good guys vs. the bad guys” action-packed conflict. While there is plenty of action, there are no good guys. There are, however, two opponents who have been duking it out for hundreds of years, the Sunnis and the Shiites. In the Sunni corner, we have U.S. President Barack Obama, championed primarily by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt. Their combatants, the Shiites, include Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah - the Lebanese militia controlled by Iran and Syria.
Under President Barack Obama’s direction in the 2011 Arab Spring, the Sunnis had already ousted evil dictators from countries such as Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. It appeared to be pro-democracy freedom-fighting at its finest. It wasn’t. The overthrown governments were quickly replaced with Muslim-Brotherhood-aligned, Sunni Islamic theocracies. And the next country on the list for overthrow was Syria. But unlike the easier targets of Mubarek, Ben Ali, and Gaddafi, Shiite Syrian leader Bashar Assad has the powerful allies of Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia.
The Assad regime was fully aware of the shrouded activity in Benghazi, fully aware that Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the man credited for the assassination of Gaddafi, was much more than an ambassador. Though serving in Tripoli as the U.S. Ambassador to transition a tribal Libya to Sunni Islamic rule, Stevens covertly used Benghazi as his base of operation for the next phase of Arab Spring: overthrowing Assad in Syria. From his Benghazi compound Stevens stored and supplied weapons for thousands of hired, rebel fighters - many of which were al-Qaeda - headed to Syria.
Oh geeeeze,,this attempt at pushback from the Clinton camp makes me sick because it shows that she is very much in the game for 2016....damn!
Of course, the best way to avoid ‘brazen deceit’ is for Hitlery to come clean about what really happened at Benghazi.
Won’t hold my breath.
Remember in the days of the clinton reign, when hillary was asked a question about one of lies, she couldn’t recall.
Oh geeeeze,,this attempt at pushback from the Clinton camp makes me sick because it shows that she is very much in the game for 2016....damn!
You had doubts?!
She has already been coronated. The campaign and the voting
are just dumb shows yet to be held. She will be installed. This is her payoff for all the years of deceit.
This so-called push back is just another installment of Thou Shalt Not Criticize the Empress.
So what? Nothing will be done about it. Issa is all bluster.
Cute little Clintonesque verbal sleight of hand. The spokesman doesn’t come out and deny that a private meeting took place, he just refers to a couple of public meetings. In inferring there were only the larger meetings, he maintains plausible deniability about the knowledge of the private meeting and redirects the focus of the “conversation”.
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) needs to check this out, ASAP.
The helicopter assault ship Kearsarge, IS in the region. Americans were lied to, again and again----we were told Kearsage was not available to help endangered Americans in Benghazi. And those 500 Marines and their tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey aircraft on standby could have reached Benghazi in no time.
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REFERENCE----MILITARY.COM reported that the U.S. would need Gen al-Sisi's approval to move through Egyptian air space if Washington decided to send Marines to aid in the evacuation of U.S. personnel due to cataclysmic events happening in Egypt.
MILITARY. COM reported there are about 550 Marines and their tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey aircraft at bases in Spain and Italy on standby, if they are needed. A Navy Amphibious Ready Group with 4,000 Marines and sailors aboard, led by the helicopter assault ship Kearsarge, was also in the region
You go it!
Hitlery knows this is nuke torpedo to her “non” campaign, which is already taking on weiner water.
My take on her chances at POTUS is that even the dems are so burnt out on anything klintoon, even though she may finagle the dem nomination, there are plenty of dems that will undercover undermine her. Hitlery is a born loser.
Funny stuff. They treat her like a queen, when she has earned the respect of a circus clown.
Mmmmmmm.....looks like Hillary might be diagnosed with “Transient Global Amnesia.”
That’s the quirky Obumster condition that seems to be virulent-—rampant among Democrats-—but only WRT Benghazi and Obamacare.
ROTFLOL.
Alright! We have a ‘brazen deceit’ from the GOP.
What a wonderful day.
Alright! We have a ‘brazen deceit’ from the GOP.
What a wonderful day.
The Clintons' 24/7 self-promotion--a familiar do-good liberal schtick:
obsessing about "helping" the needy using tax dollars,
and willing to make a private buck on it.
NBC SCREEN GRAPHIC: GETTING TOUGH ON THE CLINTONS---FINALLY
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All of the Clintons' shady proclivities are unveiled in the NYT story. Corruption, greed, entitlement, nepotism, cronyism.
The Clintons didn't have a pot to *** in in Arkansas---never even had a home to call their own. Now they're multi millionaires.....
.....they really know how to game the system for themselves.....
There needs to be a thorough going-over of the Clinton Foundation funding. We need to know who pays/funds the Clinton's real lifestyle especially now that there is talk of Hillary running for prez. It is important to know to whom the Clinton's are truly indebted.
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As President, Bill Clinton made policies that raised hundreds of billions (if not trillions) of dollars for his obscenely-rich donor/pals.
His North American Free Trade initiative made it easy for, and even encouraged, corporations to outsource jobs and then import their products back into the U.S...... The repeal of Glass-Steagall on his watch sent Wall Street into the money-making frenzy that led to the Great Recession/Depression of 2008......and subsequent taxpayer bailouts.
In exchange for these obscene gifts of corporate welfare, at the expense of America's middle and working classes, you'd think the Clintons' rich friends would have no trouble coughing up a mere $250 million endowment for the foundation.
Now it seems, the captains of crony capitalism are begging off....they just don't feel they have enough money to help their old friends Bill and Hillary secure their so-called "legacy." ///Sen Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is probing longtime Hillary Rodham Clinton aide’s employment status, asking how Huma Abedin got a sweetheart deal as a private six-figure consultant while at the State Department.
Abedin is married to disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, now in the NYC mayoral race. The two hauled in as much as $350,000 in outside income on top of Abedin’s $135,000 government salary after Weiner quit Congress over a sexting scandal.
Abedin was assigned “special government employee” status, and was able to haul in cash as a private contractor. One of her clients was Teneo Holdings, a consulting firm founded by Bill Clinton aide Doug Band.
Teneo’s Web site calls itself the “next chapter in strategic advisory,”
NOTE: Last Dec, a former MF Global employee accused former president Clinton----chairman of Teneo's advisory board----of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before MFG careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as hundreds of millions of investor funds disappeared, reports Human Events.
Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee, who asked that his name be withheld because he feared retribution, according to HE. The Teneo contract with MF Global lasted at least five months, the souce said. “The board cancelled it after Corzine resigned.”
The source, who is no longer associated with MF Global, said Teneo is a dual-track company with one side devoted to merchant and investment banking and the other side set up to provide image and strategy consulting services.
The trustee for investors later sued JPMorgan bank for return of about $450M that MFG had transferred to the bank.
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One of the biggest tax-exempt foundation scams is one tax-exempt writing a check to another tax-exempt.
L/E needs to mobilize the Bank Secrecy Act---in which banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering and other financial crimes.
The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, terrorism, tax evasion or other unlawful activities.
HILLARY has a really short fuse on the topic of BENGHAZI.
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Republicans are Ball-Less
Republicans want all the perks with none of the responsibility.
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