Posted on 08/14/2015 4:38:36 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants were part of an operation to separate damaging documents before they were turned over to the Accountability Review Board investigating security lapses surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
According to former Deputy Assistant Secretary Raymond Maxwell, the after-hours session took place over a weekend in a basement operations-type center at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. This is the first time Maxwell has publicly come forward with the story.
At the time, Maxwell was a leader in the State Departments Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, which was charged with collecting emails and documents relevant to the Benghazi probe.
When he arrived, Maxwell says he observed boxes and stacks of documents. He says a State Department office director, whom Maxwell described as close to Clintons top advisers, was there. Though the office director technically worked for him, Maxwell says he wasnt consulted about her weekend assignment.
She told me, Ray, we are to go through these stacks and pull out anything that might put anybody in the [Near Eastern Affairs] front office or the seventh floor in a bad light, says Maxwell. He says seventh floor was State Department shorthand for then-Secretary of State Clinton and her principal advisers. . .
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LOL - good one...
Thanks....Hillary is going to continue to age at an ever accelerating clip as this mess unfolds. It wont be pretty.
Why isn’t the whole Hillary posse under arrest and sitting in jail?
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