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Clinton: 'I take responsibility' for security ahead of Benghazi attack
CNN ^ | October 15, 2012 | Elise Labott

Posted on 10/15/2012 5:01:35 PM PDT by maggief

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"I take responsibility" for what happened on September 11, Clinton said in an interview with CNN's Elise Labott soon after arriving in Lima, Peru for a visit. The interview, one of a series given to U.S. television networks Monday night, were the first she has given about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

Clinton insisted President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are not involved in security decisions, Clinton said.

"I want to avoid some kind of political gotcha," she added, noting that it is close to the election.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beghazisecurity; benghazi; hillarysfault; impeachnow; libya; soshillary; waronterror
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To: maggief

So he is such a **feline nickname** that he’ll let a woman take the fall for him, or worse, put her up to it? I don’t think the women of this country will like this, much less the men over, say, 40 years of age (or younger if raised traditionally). That’s an AWFUL LOT of voters, or am I wrong?


141 posted on 10/15/2012 6:09:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: LaybackLenny

1) he is not;
2) he probably frequents the men’s room at Ft. Marcy Park.


142 posted on 10/15/2012 6:11:08 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: maggief
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the buck stops with her when it comes to who is to blame for security ahead of a deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya."

Cute.

Questions still remain.

When did she first become aware that the Consulate was under attack? Others in the State Department were following the incident in real time. Was she?

Within the first 24 hours, State knew that this was a terrorist attack, and that it had nothing to do with the video. Was she aware that this was the assessment of her own Department, and did she share that assessment?

Did she make the White House aware of the State Department assessment of the incident? If so, when?

Did she direct Susan Rice to appear on the talk shows the following Sunday to blame the incident on the video? If not, who did?

Why, in the face of over 200 reported violent incidents, did she refuse the repeated requests for additional security?

Was this in furtherance of some Administration policy regarding the "Arab Spring", or was this solely her own call, based on her own assessment of the security situation in Libya?

And, of course, whose idea was it to blame the incident on the video in the first place?

143 posted on 10/15/2012 6:12:24 PM PDT by Palmetto Patriot (2010 All Over Again. Make it happen. Get Busy!)
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To: RummyChick
She took the fall- now she will go off to be the President of Yale prisoner in a gilded cage. She can later run for President if she wants never run for office ever again.

Fixed it.

144 posted on 10/15/2012 6:13:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: maggief
Wow...

THIS IS HUGH !

145 posted on 10/15/2012 6:14:37 PM PDT by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: mass55th
The first I recall hearing about ‘the video’ was from tweets sent by the State Department’s Libyan Embassy on 9/11 before the attack.
146 posted on 10/15/2012 6:16:03 PM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: milagro

I worked for General Haig in Iowa when he briefly ran for the White House in 1987-88. He meant that as a warning to the Soviet Union and China, not as a grab for power, but of course, the press used it as a cudgel.


147 posted on 10/15/2012 6:17:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: maggief

Obama is not responsible for anything that happen the first day of elementary school to date.
He’s just that pure and good.
If you don’t believe me ask the media.


148 posted on 10/15/2012 6:20:25 PM PDT by Leep (Forward! to serfdom)
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To: butterdezillion

It is not our system which is flawed but the people who live in this country. Without their corruption this corruption would not last.

Who is Bettina Viviano and how would she know anything like that claim?


149 posted on 10/15/2012 6:20:32 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: Java4Jay
Those ‘tweets’ had to have been pre-approved before sending
150 posted on 10/15/2012 6:21:21 PM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: maggief

So much for all the postings on here that the Clintons were going to put it to Obama


151 posted on 10/15/2012 6:21:39 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: maggief

It’s not over until Hillary Sings.....La la lah lalala laaaaah. She’s just warming up!


152 posted on 10/15/2012 6:22:25 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then.)
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To: onyx

“Then RESIGN, Hitlery.”

That was my frist thought as well.

Great minds think alike. :)


153 posted on 10/15/2012 6:24:12 PM PDT by Clyde5445
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To: onyx

She won’t resign because she knows the weak-kneed GOP house won’t call her to testify under oath. For some reason they are afraid of her.


154 posted on 10/15/2012 6:24:36 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: maggief

Blood on her hands just like her husband in Mogadishu.

Jail the bitch.


155 posted on 10/15/2012 6:25:32 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: FredZarguna

Hillary’s political career is over. She is already too old and fat and it will only be worse in four years.

In fact, the RATs are SooL for a viable candidate for ‘16. No young stars in the pipeline.


156 posted on 10/15/2012 6:25:40 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: BenLurkin

And you’re resigning in Peru or something?


157 posted on 10/15/2012 6:26:31 PM PDT by FryingPan101 (2016 looms)
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To: henkster

The Clintons now have tens of millions of dollars. Money is not an issue.

This is a Clintonian modified limited hangout. It makes Obama look weak before the debate (war on women!). More significantly, it shrewdly dumps the cover up onto Obama.

I doubt very much that Barry cleared this interview or move by Hillary.


158 posted on 10/15/2012 6:31:32 PM PDT by mwl8787
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To: BenLurkin

(heard inside the DNC strategy room)

Blame Bush (wait a minute.....),

Blame Romney (oh, that may not work....)

Oh, yeah ,I GOT IT! Blame Hillary!....

(We may be on to something there....)


159 posted on 10/15/2012 6:32:25 PM PDT by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: tennmountainman

That isn’t true.


160 posted on 10/15/2012 6:33:00 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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