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Clinton Claims She Didn't Blame Benghazi Attack on a YouTube Video
Townhall.com ^ | 10/22/2015 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 10/22/2015 1:37:01 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross

Speaking in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi Thursday afternoon, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attempted to claim she didn't blame the September 11, 2012 attack on a YouTube video.

"Where did the false narrative start? It started with you, Madame Secretary," Ohio Republican Jim Jordan pressed Clinton.

"I referred to the video that night in a very specific way. I said some have sought to justify the attack because of the video. I used those words deliberately, not to ascribe a motive to every attacker but as a warning to those across the region that there was no justification for further attacks," Clinton said.

Jordan also pointed out that while Clinton was telling the American people a video was to blame, she was emailing her family, the Libyan government and the Egyptian government about a terror attack. At the same time the Obama administration was arguing the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty and Information Management Officer Sean Smith were a result of a spontaneous protest that got out of control, not the result of a terror attack.

"We know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest," Clinton wrote to the Egyptian prime minister the night of September 11, 2012.

video at link ...

Lets take a look back at what Clinton said in front of the flag draped caskets of the four Americans killed in Benghazi.

Hillary Clinton - Tranfer Ceremony U.S. Consulate in Benghazi Victims

And another:

Hillary Clinton Blames Youtube Video for Benghazi Terrorist Attack

Not only did Clinton blame the attack on a video "offensive" to Islam, the Obama administration and the State Department purchased $80,000 worth of commercial airtime in Pakistan apologizing for the video.

U S Embassy Airs Ad in Pakistan to Appease; Obama Throws Free Speech, USA under the Bus.mp4

It also should be noted that the person who made the video was hauled off to jail in the middle of the night.

Clinton blamed the video for the attacks, Obama blamed the video, Susan Rice blamed the video, they all blamed the video. Clinton's mincing of words doesn't change those facts.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; clinton; hillary; is; liar; libya; lyingliarlies; video
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I agree with that. As for the cover-up, he’s up to his schnozz in it.


41 posted on 10/22/2015 2:29:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: MNJohnnie

And never has been.


42 posted on 10/22/2015 2:33:54 PM PDT by sport
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To: Servant of the Cross

All they had to do was play a couple of Youtube videos of her doing exactly what she testified she didn’t do, and then handcuff her and perp walk her right out of the committee room.

Fortunately for her, as usual, her opponents are Republicans.


43 posted on 10/22/2015 2:35:08 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Cantor-ize every last one of them.)
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To: MNJohnnie
Trust me, the liberal democrats are going to believe it. Because that is what they WANT to believe. They want to believe it because they truly HATE republicans out of hand. Proof of anything else means nothing to them and is easily dismissed. They see Hillary as a victim of a "partisan witch hunt". That's the current meme and they're buying into it hook line and sinker.
44 posted on 10/22/2015 2:35:24 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: EternalVigilance

It would appear that Secretary Clinton didn’t do anything when our team in Benghazi was killed.

She didn’t care and still doesn’t. It’s all political to her.

Yea Hillary, we want your ilk to be in charge.


45 posted on 10/22/2015 2:39:44 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Servant of the Cross

who are you going to believe....me or your lying eyes????


46 posted on 10/22/2015 2:45:45 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Bullish

We know she lies and is corrupt. And the people on the left know she lies and is corrupt. But that’s what they want, so they will rave about her performance.


47 posted on 10/22/2015 2:54:13 PM PDT by henkster
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To: Bullish

Remember when Slick marched his cabinet out onto the WH lawn in front of the cameras—from the little Reichs and Shalalas to the moose-like Janets—to express their faith in the Bent One?
They all confidently backed his story by stating that President Clinton could not have had sex with that woman/diddled Monica in his office ... because they didn’t think there was any evidence.

Same with SOS Clinton, with the difference being—no one’s fighting over a microphone to swear to the country what she’s not lying over youtube videos, the e-mails, the false public statements and all the other things that Trey Gowdy is going to urge be put in a bill of indictment against her.


48 posted on 10/22/2015 3:18:25 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

HRC can’t be exposed: she is America’s choice forever more.


49 posted on 10/22/2015 3:18:46 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: tumblindice

I had forgotten about that useless Clintoid Cabinet, hardly any of whose names I can recall.


50 posted on 10/22/2015 3:19:46 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Carl Vehse

Monica’s ex-boyfriend’s wife is still America’s choice even as late as 2016!


51 posted on 10/22/2015 3:20:27 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Bullish

The ill-informed American people may not even believe in HRC’s testimony, but they are with her forever no matter what!


52 posted on 10/22/2015 3:21:40 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: MNJohnnie
You and I see that.....but the rest of Americans?

Nope.

Clueless.......................

53 posted on 10/22/2015 3:24:42 PM PDT by Osage Orange (The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Umm, don’t we have RECORDED audio and video of her specifically blaming said video???

They should have had it ready and cued up to run when she denied it.

Are these clowns completely incompetent? They need to prepare like this and FORCE her to answer for her crimes.

But, they’ll let her blatant lies go uncountered


54 posted on 10/22/2015 3:30:57 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Theodore R.
"Monica’s ex-boyfriend’s wife is still America’s choice even as late as 2016!"

HilLIARy is the choice of hell-spawned traitors in America, not the choice of true Americans.

55 posted on 10/22/2015 3:43:11 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Servant of the Cross
I used those words deliberately, not to ascribe a motive to every attacker but as a warning to those across the region that there was no justification for further attacks,"

God, mean-old right-wing monster Republicans! Can't I just run and rule America in peace without all these stupid questions? You keep attacking me, you're going to lose those precious moderate and independent voters!

56 posted on 10/22/2015 3:48:21 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
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To: MNJohnnie

True but has our side asked why hillary sent a well known gay Chris stevens to an assignment that almost assured his death due to the way Islam treats gays? I don’t think it will come up


57 posted on 10/22/2015 3:49:20 PM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepuplic:Land of the Freem because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon ok)
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To: Servant of the Cross

It depends on what the meaning of “because” is?


58 posted on 10/22/2015 3:49:42 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: TigersEye

When will carter Ham testifify and all the others who were told to stand down


59 posted on 10/22/2015 3:51:07 PM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepuplic:Land of the Freem because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon ok)
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To: tumblindice

How dare he insult Dear Reader.


60 posted on 10/22/2015 3:51:45 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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