Posted on 01/17/2014 12:26:26 PM PST by Steelfish
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REBECCA KAPLAN January 16, 2014 Sen. Feinstein: Hillary Clinton Isn’t To Blame For Benghazi
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has come to the defense of Hillary Clinton against Republicans who she says are trying to inflate the former secretary ofstate’s role in the Sept. 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic facility and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya.
Feinstein, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and vice chairman Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., led the committee’s review of the attacks that werepublished in a bipartisan report that was declassified Wednesday. Though their the report faults the State Department for failing to sufficiently increase security to protect the diplomatic facility in light of increased security threats, it does not directly connect Clinton to the decision making.
“I want the record to be clear: I condemn any efforts to use this report for political purposes,” Feinstein said in a statement released Thursday.
Clinton’s name is mentioned just once in the report, in an addendum written authored by Republican Sens. Chambliss, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Jim Risch of Idaho, Dan Coats of Indiana, Marco Rubio of Florida and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
“Ultimately, however, the final responsibility for security at diplomatic facilities lies with the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,” they write. “At the end of the day, she was responsible for ensuring the safety of all Americans serving in our diplomatic facilities. Her failure to do so clearly made a difference in the lives of the four murdered Americans and their families.”
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Didn't you get the memo? It's Bush's fault, yeah really, I heard that he conned Hitlary into a drinking contest and had her dancing to loud music so she never heard that 3A.M. phone call, yeah that's it, that's the ticket it's Bush's fault.
Hillary had $8.7 billion dollars to spend on embassy security. Tell me again it was not her fault!
Wish these signs go up all the country if she decides to run but don’t count on the insipid Republicans to go on the attack.
You want to make it clear. To who. Who do you think you are a dictator. MRS. WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE made a series of bad decisions when she was called on and then LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE to cover her political behind. Just like your doing know.
Even if it's true, and even if Hillary is to blame, and ..... oh, wait! -- DiFi, are you telling us it's Obama's fault?!
Oh, well then! Now we're getting someplace!
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