Posted on 10/14/2012 11:06:17 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
The State Department has said that it never believed the September 11th attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was the result of a protest over an anti-Islam movie - directly contracting the rest of the Obama administration.
By trying to distance her department from the inept and deceptive handling of the Benghazi attack, which left U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American officials dead, Hillary Clinton could help herself politically for a 2016 presidential run.
A dramatic new account by the State Department reveals that Stevens was locked inside a 'safe room' choking to death from diesel-heavy smoke as the building around him burned to the ground.
Alongside him was a security guard, tasked with the impossible choice between staying in the deadly room - or facing the rocket-propelled grenades and machine-guns outside.
Eventually the guard slipped through the window (cut)
No-one saw the ambassador alive again - another agent tried desperately to enter the safe-room, but could not find him anywhere.
The State Department's insistence it never bought the story - expressed by the White House and Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations - that a crude anti-Islam film made in California triggered the attack gives ammunition against Obama both to the Romney campaign and congressional Republicans.
State Department sources have said that Clinton has never forgotten that Rice, who served in her husband Bill's administration, was an early supporter of Obama. Rice has ambitions to take over from Clinton if Obama is re-elected but the Benghazi debacle could scupper her chances.
In a briefing on Tuesday, State Department officials said 'others' in the executive branch concluded initially that the attack was part of a protest against the film, which ridiculed the Prophet Muhammad. That was never the State Department's conclusion, reporters were told.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Romney will commit political suicide if he doesn't PLAY this break in the DP in front of American viewers Tuesday.
Hil is . . . well, there’s just no way out for her. I just don’t see it.
The day of the attacks I was on the phone to the only one whom I knew would get it, as so many are at the mercy of the media, and I was saying, “the AMBASSADOR was killed!”.
That is not done. And when it is done (6 times in our history of 230+ yr history) we act appropriately. It’s worse than the Challenger blowing up, when people on the streets were in a daze over a few U.S. patriots killed in the service of their country.
After Benghazi, people should have been in a general mode of reaction. But not so because of our cover up media confusing them after having brainwashed them.
Dave Letterman should have been on this the way he was that January day in 1986.
But none of that lack of reaction diminishes the FACT that four of our patriots were killed in the service of our country.
It’s where Hil separates from Bill. She doesn’t care about patriots in the service of our country. She hates the military.
Bill never had the hatred - disinvolvement and disrespect, yes- not the hatred. He know how to cover up his feelings. Perhaps he is far worse a character, Just saying she’s not as good as he regarding staying out of trouble. She hitched herself to his wagon because she recognized talent that she admired - because he was superior at this.
WE do not like it, of course.
She thought she was as good. She’s good at a lot of things in politics but not at checking her hatred of the military and of patriots.
She’s gonna have a lot of trouble over this.
She’s tone deaf.
She thinks we should all be disdainful of patriots in serviece. She thinks we’re schmucks and that everyone should regard patriots and those in service as suckers.
We don’t.
I just don’t see any way out for her.
She’s finding out NOW that those in service to the State Dept - HER State Dept- and their families expect a lot of respect and deserve it. And they are going to get respect.
Enough to bring out the truth of what happened. Every bit of it that can be found out- as ugly as it can get - that’s the kind of people patriots and their families are.a
Hil is . . . well, there’s just no way out for her. I just don’t see it.
The day of the attacks I was on the phone to the only one whom I knew would get it, as so many are at the mercy of the media, and I was saying, “the AMBASSADOR was killed!”.
That is not done. And when it is done (6 times in our history of 230+ yr history) we act appropriately. It’s worse than the Challenger blowing up, when people on the streets were in a daze over a few U.S. patriots killed in the service of their country.
After Benghazi, people should have been in a general mode of reaction. But not so because of our cover up media confusing them after having brainwashed them.
Dave Letterman should have been on this the way he was that January day in 1986.
But none of that lack of reaction diminishes the FACT that four of our patriots were killed in the service of our country.
It’s where Hil separates from Bill. She doesn’t care about patriots in the service of our country. She hates the military.
Bill never had the hatred - disinvolvement and disrespect, yes- not the hatred. He know how to cover up his feelings. Perhaps he is far worse a character, Just saying she’s not as good as he regarding staying out of trouble. She hitched herself to his wagon because she recognized talent that she admired - because he was superior at this.
WE do not like it, of course.
She thought she was as good. She’s good at a lot of things in politics but not at checking her hatred of the military and of patriots.
She’s gonna have a lot of trouble over this.
She’s tone deaf.
She thinks we should all be disdainful of patriots in serviece. She thinks we’re schmucks and that everyone should regard patriots and those in service as suckers.
We don’t.
I just don’t see any way out for her.
She’s finding out NOW that those in service to the State Dept - HER State Dept- and their families expect a lot of respect and deserve it. And they are going to get respect.
Enough to bring out the truth of what happened. Every bit of it that can be found out- as ugly as it can get - that’s the kind of people patriots and their families are.
Here she is, standing in front of the dead bodies of those killed in the attack and blames the angry YouTube mob for the violence - even though her State Department had a live video of the feed and knew there were no protests about any movie. They witnessed an organized military attack and lied about it all for political reasons.
Skip to the 16:40 mark where she once again brings up the video:
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? .... “
you mean HELLery!
It's sad but the boys at the New York Times were too busy kissing Obama's butt to look into the lies he was telling them.
Just think. Her daughter has political aspirations as well. God help us, and help rid our country of these traitorous rats.
The State Department not only denied a request for an increase in Marine Security personnel in Libya, they reduced the Marine personnel there.
Thereby the trap was set to embarrass Obama at some future attack, say on 9-11-12.
Hilly is brutal!
Marines report to State, and the CIA reports to the White House.
In the VP debate Biden said that the WH was unaware of any requests for an increase in security.
Hilly needs to shift the blame to Obama by blaming the shoddy work of the CIA, and Obama’s Foreign Policy of “Leading from Behind.”
BTW, what is the difference between “leading from behind” and “following?”
BTW, BTW, doesn’t all this remind one of the Tower of London shenanigans from the pages of the history of the Brits?
C'mon Nana. Every "safe" room has a "magic" window.
For them to make a big deal about some youtube video that virtually nobody had seen until now is the height of absurdity.
As stated above there are multiple times that video out there, WAY more "offensive" to Islam.
Why was this particular video "chosen" to be the one that supposedly outraged the terrorists?
Does anyone really think that youtube is available freely to anyone other than about 2% of that population?
Please.
If Hillary comes out of this scandal untouched, maybe you can vote for her in 2016. She is running. That’s why she and Bill are looking for ways to come out of this scandal untouched. I am sure she appreciates your support.
Hillary stood in front of 4 coffins and talked about the video. How can she distance herself from that?
Something tells me that task will be left to us.
Hillary Clinton is a complete sleaze. She is the one directly responsible for the ambassador’s death by ignoring his repeated requests for security in light of the al Qaeda threat. Obama is derivatively responsible for appointing this incompetent as well as the rest of the trash in his administration.
Yep.
She's used to this: lying about suffocation, that is.
Remember her tell-all on "first hearing" about Monica Lewinsky?
"Gasping for air, I could hardly breathe."
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Why can’t we elect someone who will prosecute the criminals he replaces? Instead of electing one who says “I think we should move forward”.
It is despicable and constantly infuriating. But like it or not, the left has won the battle for control of the press. Thanks God there is now alternative media.
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