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Never forget: Hillary’s Benghazi legacy of failure and deception
https://www.americanthinker.com/ ^ | September 10, 2025 | Kevin Finn

Posted on 09/10/2025 8:25:56 AM PDT by bitt

Every year, as we approach 9/11 we say, “Never forget”. Tomorrow, 9/11/25, we remember two vicious attacks on our country: one here on the continental U.S. and the other on our embassy in Benghazi. Much will be written about the former, I would like to briefly discuss the latter.

The Benghazi attack exposed a sordid chapter in American foreign policy, one marked by negligence, obfuscation, and a stunning lack of accountability from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The assault on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya, which left four Americans dead, was not just a tragedy but a case study in bureaucratic incompetence and political spin. The evidence paints a damning picture of Clinton’s leadership, or lack thereof, and her administration’s desperate attempts to dodge responsibility.

On September 11, 2012, Islamic militants stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, exploiting woefully inadequate security. The attack wasn’t a spontaneous riot over an obscure YouTube video, as the Obama administration — including Clinton — initially claimed. It was a coordinated terrorist assault by a group tied to al-Qaeda. According to Fox News, the attackers used rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, overwhelming the lightly guarded compound. A nearby CIA annex, where Doherty and Woods were stationed, became a secondary target. Despite desperate calls for help, no significant military rescue was launched. A small team from Tripoli, including Doherty, arrived too late to save Stevens and Smith. The Pentagon later admitted forces were not positioned to respond effectively, a logistical failure that falls squarely on the State Department’s shoulders.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 13hours; benghazi; bumpsintheroad; hillaryclinton; whatdifference
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1 posted on 09/10/2025 8:25:56 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 09/10/2025 8:26:11 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: bitt

Well, Hillary’s answer was , what difference does it make? Remember that?


3 posted on 09/10/2025 8:28:22 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And then she tried to blame it on some stupid video.


4 posted on 09/10/2025 8:29:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Got away with it.


5 posted on 09/10/2025 8:30:33 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: bitt
With so much occurring on 9/11, from Benghazi/HRC to "911", also be mindful of something noteworthy the day before... to hide prior to this eventful day.

Sept 10, 2001, Secy of Defense Rumsfeld tells us $2.3T is missing. If that's not a clue to anybody suspicious of 9/11 being an inside job, I don't know what is.

6 posted on 09/10/2025 8:31:50 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: dfwgator

Well, “they” are POd that another video showed up too. The one out of North Carolina. I really despise these entities.


7 posted on 09/10/2025 8:31:52 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: bitt

Hillary was our worst Sec of State.
Only his excellency Kerry could even come close to her.

Totally incompetent!


8 posted on 09/10/2025 8:38:18 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: bitt

It was hardly just about Benghazi. It went far beyond that.

Hillary and Barack’s Libya adventure (and the chaos in Syria caused by their transferring of Libyan weapons to Al Qaeda Syria), broken open the gates of mass muslim migration to Europe, the consequences of which are playing out big-time to this day.

its marxist, globalist social-engineering on a mass scale.


9 posted on 09/10/2025 8:41:37 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Got away with it.

And then she had the balls..... er.... the gall to run for president.
10 posted on 09/10/2025 8:41:38 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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To: bitt

Don’t excuse Obama either.


11 posted on 09/10/2025 8:48:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: AZJeep

Madeline Albright? Cyrus Vance? There are a number of nominees...


12 posted on 09/10/2025 8:50:32 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: bitt

George W. Bush was not an outstanding leader but America’s downfall accelerated with his defeat and Clintøøn’s election in 1992.


13 posted on 09/10/2025 8:52:31 AM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: adorno
And then she had the balls..... er.... the gall to run for president.

Her followers - fanatics? - were and still are impervious to all the facts of her venality, corruption, incompetence, greed ,and megalomania.

14 posted on 09/10/2025 8:52:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: lightman

It accelerated when Bush replaced Reagan, he undid everything Reagan did.


15 posted on 09/10/2025 8:53:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lightman
George W. Bush was not an outstanding leader but America’s downfall accelerated with his defeat and Clintøøn’s election in 1992.

Bush I was a victim of Ross Perot's candidacy and a pre-internet MSM that was gaga over the Clintons. And Clinton did not receive a majority vote in either 1992 or 1996. Yet the media crowed and crowed about the Clintons popularity over the entire two terms.

16 posted on 09/10/2025 8:56:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: C210N
Agree! And for those who don't read the original article; "Adding to the mess, there were questions about the murky role of Stinger missiles in Libya. After Gaddafi’s fall, the U.S. was reportedly involved in a covert operation to recover those weapons from Libyan militias. Stevens’s mission in Benghazi may have been tied to this effort, placing him in a volatile city with minimal protection. The lack of transparency about this operation was neither confirmed nor denied by the State Department and only fuels suspicion of deeper incompetence or worse."

And perhaps part of the rational for the huge lies and cover up was not recovering those weapons, but selling them to al-Qaeda.

I don't remember when it happened, might have been while Bill Clinton was in office, and searching I came up empty. But there was a mystery SAM or some sort of missile weapon found setup along a highway in plain view somewhere around DC. Clearly a message from someone, completely erased as best I can tell. Might be totally unrelated, and might be around flight 800.

17 posted on 09/10/2025 9:03:46 AM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (GO Tigers)
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To: bitt

Ms Hillary regrets they’re unable to lunch today.
Madam, Ms Hillary regrets they’re unable to lunch today.
The four men that she let down
Were slaughtered in Bengazi town.
Madam, Ms Hillary regrets they’re unable to lunch today.

When the mob came and got them and threw them in the street,
Madam, They knew well the fate they were going to meet.
They were beaten and bloodied and bound,
Stripped naked and dragged on the ground.
Madam, Ms Hillary regrets they’re unable to lunch today.

Ms Hillary regrets there was nothing that she could do.
Madam, Ms. Hillary regrets there was nothing that she could do.
The reports she got through the night
Were vague and confusing and slight.
Madam, Ms Hillary regrets they’re unable to lunch today.

Ms Hillary regrets she kept the army away.
Madam, Ms Hillary regrets she kept the army away.
So comrades watched four comrades die,
From a distance, but not at their side.
Madam, Ms. Hillary regrets they’re unable to lunch today.

Ms Hillary regrets the truth must die with them.
Madam, Ms Hillary regrets the truth must die with them.
Because after the night they died
Dawned the day Ms Hillary lied.
Madam, Ms Hillary regrets the truth must die with them.


18 posted on 09/10/2025 9:05:45 AM PDT by fredmann
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To: PGR88
its marxist, globalist social-engineering on a mass scale.

As is the soaring crime rates nurtured, promoted, facilitated by those Dem-controlled locations that wish to defund the police, abandon traditional incarceration and bail policies, and currently refuse federal LE assistance.

The nation actually faces a threat, and the immediate goal is chaos and government reaction that can be dramatically overstated.

See, for instance, K.Harris and her offer to make bail for the bomb-throwers.

As yet, none of the conservative talking heads, or for that matter none or very few of the R politicians want to put a name on it.

19 posted on 09/10/2025 9:06:11 AM PDT by frog in a pot
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To: bitt

Ahhh! Derr Hilderbeast? aka the “Witch of Benghazi”.

ECHOES OF BENGHAZI PART ONE
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3280465/posts

From Wayback Machine:

http://www.fixbayonets.me/2015/03/echoes-of-benghazi-part-one.html
https://web.archive.org/web/2018*/http://www.fixbayonets.me/2015/03/echoes-of-benghazi-part-one.html

http://www.fixbayonets.me/2014/03/benghazi-reveal-part-two.html#more
https://web.archive.org/web/2018*/http://www.fixbayonets.me/2014/03/benghazi-reveal-part-two.html#more

http://www.fixbayonets.me/2014/03/benghazi-reveal-part-three.html#more
https://web.archive.org/web/2018*/http://www.fixbayonets.me/2014/03/benghazi-reveal-part-three.html#more

http://www.fixbayonets.me/2014/03/benghazi-reveal-part-four.html#more
https://web.archive.org/web/2018*/http://www.fixbayonets.me/2014/03/benghazi-reveal-part-four.html#more


20 posted on 09/10/2025 9:09:23 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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