Posted on 05/31/2014 3:45:40 PM PDT by don-o
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In the limited excerpts published Friday from Clinton’s Benghazi chapter, the former secretary of State continued to defend the administration from what she termed a “political slugfest.”
Specifically, she defended the flawed explanation -- used by then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice five days after the attack -- that an obscure anti-Islam video fueled a protest gone awry in Benghazi.
"There were scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives," Clinton wrote, according to Politico. "It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video.It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were. Both assertions deny not only the evidence but logic as well."
Further, she reportedly wrote that Rice relied on existing intelligence in making her statements.
But former CIA deputy director Mike Morell, who now works for Clinton's principal gatekeeper Philippe Reines at the D.C. consulting firm Beacon Global Strategies, testified in April that it was Rice who linked the video to the Benghazi attack. Morrell, who still faces allegations he misled Congress over the so-called talking points, said the video was not part of the CIA analysis as Clinton seems to suggest.
Morell told members of the House Intelligence Committee that Rice’s claims about the attacks evolving from a protest were “exactly what the talking points said, and it was exactly what the intelligence community analysts believed.”
However, he said: “When she talked about the video, my reaction was, that's not something that the analysts have attributed this attack to."
An independent review of more than 4,000 social media postings, conducted by a leading social media monitoring firm in December 2012, also found the YouTube video was a non-event in Benghazi.
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Of course, FReepers know that the video piece is small beer in relation to the actual depth of the atrocity that has been perpetrated.
Susan Rice allegedly relied on existing intelligence when she went on the Sunday shows to explain everything.
The liberals had meltdowns about the Bush administration reliance on existing intelligence in going into Iraq. The liberals concluded that Bush lied, people died, etc.
In that case of Iraq and Bush, the liberals disallowed the possibility that the intelligence could have been faulty. Instead, Bush was supposed to have known that there were holes in said intelligence.
Yet in spite of that, many liberals including Hillary, voted for the Iraq war.
But now, the liberals make the excuse that Susan Rice had the best intelligence available at the time, and we’re supposed to accept that as their excuse.
The liberals, if they were intellectually honest, would blame Obama and his administration for not having complete information about Benghazi. Just as they had their meltdown over Bush and intelligence and the Iraq war.
They called YouTube PRIOR to the earliest time they originally claimed the CIA had told them of The Dastardly Video (insert Psycho shower-scene music here).
Catherine Herridge deserves a raise.
That is a flat out lie. The evidence is that no one in Benghazi ever heard of the video.
Hillary knew about the video before Sept. 11th though.
Hillary Clinton is THE original source of the 'video did it' excuse for Benghazi, Cairo and all the rest of the embassy riots around the world. Hillary did it!
US Embassy in Cairo quietly deletes its ‘we stand by our condemnation’ tweet; Update: More deleted tweets!
Here is Hillary pushing it again on Sept. 13th.
Clinton: Anti-Islam Video 'Disgusting' (video 2:56)
Here is a 'senior administration official' trying to distance 0bamugabe from Hillary's f-up and at the same time admitting by inference that she was the source of the 'video did it' meme.
Senior administration official: The Cairo embassy’s statement does not reflect the view of the U.S. government; Update: Romney calls embassy statement “disgraceful”posted at 10:34 pm on September 11, 2012 by Allahpundit
The White House is disavowing a statement from their own Cairo embassy that apologized for anti-Muslim activity in the United States.
“The statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government,” a senior administration official told POLITICO…
“Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a Tuesday statement.
And here 0bamugabe and Hillary work together to try to prop up her 'video did it' nonsense and spread it even further.
Obama and Hillary Apologize for Free Speech on Pakistani TV (taxpayer-funded ads) 09/20/2012
Nope, she never said anything about a 'video.'
Father of Fallen SEAL: Hillary Told Me They’d Get That Filmmaker Good 10/25/2012 videos at linkWH: Obama Called Hillary at 10PM on Night of Benghazi Attack–About Same Time Clinton | CNS News
Rep. Kinzinger: Hillary Yelled at Lawmaker When It Was Suggested Benghazi Was Terror Attack (Youtube video 4:40)
New Evidence Links U.S. Federal Government to FILMMAKER behind Benghazi Fiasco (Shocking)
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Montagraph put up a new video on May 1st. It is basically a refresher of his original findings of the connection between Stanley Inc., a State Dept. subcontractor, to the Innocence of Muslims video. He also shows when and by whom the name was changed.
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Here is a video by another Vlogger who demonstrates how Montagraph traced Innocence of Muslims to Stanley Inc. through the meta-data.
Blizzard of Lies....New York Times -January 8, 1996
Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.
Brian Lilley: The MSM is lying about the muslim riots
Interviews on the streets of Cairo. 'Video' had nothing to do with protests and attack.
"Blame it on the Video" was a Fraud for the Cairo Rioting, Too
I know what you mean. We can’t expect intellectual honesty from the liberals, or from their apologists in the liberal media.
When you look at Obama’s job approval ratings, it makes you wonder where those ratings would be, if he didn’t have the media shilling for him every single day?
1. The rebels had roadblocks all around the embassy, yet after the fateful dinner meeting, the Turkish Ambassador magically SUCCEEDED in passing THROUGH those same roadblocks —how..?
2. The locally hired security physically OPENED THE FRONT GATE to the attackers who said ON VIDEO, “Dr. Morsi sent us”. Since Hillary’s ties with Morsi are FAR deeper than people usually assume, HOW can that not be important..?
3. Hillary’s impulse was to maximally distance herself in the aftermath of Bengazi, yet when footage surfaced showing joyous kidnappers extracting a soot-faced Stevens, Hillary jumped before microphones, extravagantly thanking the kidnappers “for them HELPING our Ambassador, later shouting Allah Akbar in their joy he was found still alive..” WHY?
4. If the men really WERE rescuers, why did they take the most powerful American in Bengazi to a hospital controlled by AL QAEDA...? That behavior seems more kidnapper-centric.
5. Using a target designator elevates risk to the user. If no armed aircraft were overhead, WHY were the SEALS lasing targets in the middle of a firefight...?
Something is off about this. Clinton’s assertions in this book are easily refutable.
They have been caught red-handed lying about the intelligence and the talking points.
Why do they insist on continuing to trot out the lie?
I doubt his poll numbers. I doubt that he is even as popular as his (currently dismal) poll numbers say. Look, the MSM makes things up. This has been proven. Why is it such a stretch that they would make up poll numbers?
I wonder where the original Reuters reporter got the idea of the video? I wonder if Hillary Clinton herself initiated the info to the reporter?
Interesting that Nakoula the film maker is also a FedMob stooge.
Producer Of Anti-Islam Film Was Fed Snitch
L.A. man began cooperating after 2009 fraud bustInteresting that Nakoula's websites track back to connections with 0bama.
Proof Positive - In My Opinion (who created Innocence of Muslims)(Obama)Interesting that Nakoula's partner in the film was a palestinian Muslim with terrorist connections who was also watched by the Feds for three decades but never arrested and frequently bailed out by the Feds.
Why is the Coptic Christian filmmaker partners in crime with Coptic Christian hater?
- Nakoula is a FedMob snitch.
- Nakoula's partner in the film was Eiad Salameh, a Palestinian Muslim.
- AFAIK Nakoula was never a film maker before. He was a check kiter.
- The film was not originally about Mohammed.
- Clips from the film were first aired on Egyptian TV just 3-4 days before Sept. 11th by a hardline 'tele-Islamist.'
- 0bama, Hillary and Rice have repeatedly made a point of saying that the U.S. gov had "nothing to do with the film." Something no one in the world would have ever thought.
- 0bama and Hillary have engaged in a major campaign of disinformation to blame the film and apologize for it.
Nakoula and Eiad may have made the film.
Someone else handled "distribution" and "promotion" in Egypt.
The Clintons never tell the truth when a lie will do as well.
Reuters reporter? I don’t know anything about that. The Cairo embassy was tweeting apologies for it early in the day of Sept. 11th before any crowds had even assembled at the Cairo embassy. That was many hours before the Benghazi consulate compound was attacked. Hillary had the Youtube video in mind before anything had happened anywhere.
The blinding speed the WH used in dredging up Nikoula and the eggregious nature of the film MAKE SENSE **if his film was made SPECIFICALLY in order to provide cover IF the WH KNEW that something bad was about to happen in Bengazi.
Indeed Nikoula was ALREADY a Fed snitch and had a very strong incentive to cooperate in any way that would lessen his legal problems.
NOBODY knew the film and it was so obscure that it had eluded even the muzzie ConcernTrolls who have nothing better to do than cruise around, looking to flag exactly this type of content.
But the WH magically already did know this film —WHY..?
So many inexplicable aspects of Bengazi magically make sense if one simply accepts the notion that the WH *knew* of the chaos that was about to explode.
When do they ever stop lying ?
Hillary absolutely started the first “video” lie, and her memory has been conveniently “jello”, since hauled before investigators on the White Water-gate affair.
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