CLINTON TALKS IRAQ AND BENGHAZI WITH THE SUN ED BOARD
December 30, 2015
EXCERPT
Sun Columnist Tom McLaughlin said she told an Egyptian diplomat the Benghazi attack was planned and not a protest but that she told family members of the deceased that the attack was the result of a demonstration. He said she then told George Stephanopoulos that she didn’t tell the families the attack was a demonstration about a film.
“Somebody is lying,” said McLaughlin.”Who is it?
Clinton replied, “Not me, that’s all I can tell you.”
At the time, Clinton said, everyone was emotionally distraught. She said some families didn’t know their sons were working for the CIA or were in Benghazi. Clinton said the information she had about the attack was from the intelligence community.
“What happened is people were doing the best they could with information that was changing,” said Clinton. “The CIA wrote and approved the talking points that were used. It was also true that from Egypt to Tunisia to Pakistan, the video was the primary spark that was sending people into protesting against our facilities. All of this was happening simultaneously.”
Continuing to press, McLaughlin said three family members victims said that Clinton told him that the attack was the result of the video and or that the filmmaker should be arrested.
Clinton replied that other family members believe differently and stressed she had sympathy for all involved. “I can’t recite for you everything that was in a conversation where people were sobbing, where people were distraught, the president and the vice president, we were all making the rounds talking to people, listening to people,” said Clinton. “I was in a very difficult position because we have not yet said two of the four dead were CIA ... This was a part of the fog of war.”
In terms of the U.S. involvement in Libya, which helped over throw Libyan dictator Mpammar Gadhafi in 2011, Clinton said the administration received support from Congress, the U.N. Security Council, and European and Arab states to act in a “supporting roll.”
Clinton replied, "Not me, that's all I can tell you."
From article: Clinton talks Iraq and Benghazi with the Sun ed board http://www.conwaydailysun.com/newsx/local-news/123956-clinton-talks-iraq-and-benghazi-with-the-sun-ed-board
thanks for posting info & link, Maggie -- looking for video, Tom, thanks.
happier 2016!?