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Clinton’s role in the Benghazi fiasco and blame-shifting
The Washington Post ^ | May 21, 2013 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 05/21/2013 8:58:14 AM PDT by don-o

Passing the buck is nothing new in government. But when four Americans are dead, the secretary testified to a certain version of events to Congress, and an independent report was allegedly not independent, we are in different territory. The gross incompetence that led up to the deaths of four Americans is inexcusable, but so was the mismanagement of the State Department. Under Clinton, critical memos never reached the secretary and the steps taken after the fact look a lot like an all-out effort to shield her from blame. Isn’t it time to get her back under oath?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; clinton; corruption; democrats; hillary; mills; missiles; obama

1 posted on 05/21/2013 8:58:14 AM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o

Under oath Hillary will develop amnesia. I doubt she will remember her name.


2 posted on 05/21/2013 9:00:53 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: don-o

“Oath” means nothing to her. “What difference does it make?”

She’ll lie anyway.


3 posted on 05/21/2013 9:01:46 AM PDT by ibytoohi (What the hell has happened to my country?)
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To: don-o

Isn’t it time to get her back under oath?
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As we’ve seen before, she could care less about being under oath. She’s been lying her entire life.


4 posted on 05/21/2013 9:03:05 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Venturer
she'll get another doctor's note, excusing her from work that day...

The first time conveniently moved her to the back of the line so she had the foundations and time to build the lies that wouldn't be contradicted by the others

5 posted on 05/21/2013 9:04:48 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: don-o

Guess this is the best we can expect fro Wa Po but she lost me in the first sentence.

Four Americans multiplied were killed yesterday, More in Boston, on the Helicopter wherein the SEAL team were killed. What difference does it make? Even H! is winning on this.

They are the Embassy staff. US representatives in Libya. The Libyans know this, so do AQ, MB, Egypt, Syria and a few Americans with a semblance of basic knowledge of our government and it’s place in the world.

Foreigners are confused and encouraged by our govt’s stupidity on this and the American electorate is confused that this story won’t go away, though H! wants it to. They thought she was more powerful than that.

She is not. They haven’t fundamentally transformed America yet, and it was the Embassy staff. When will the journalists including Hannity get a clue and call it what it is and bring some proper order onto this story.


6 posted on 05/21/2013 9:07:59 AM PDT by stanne
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...
WHICH clinton? Both of them are riding this whirlwind.

Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.


Benghazi Index

7 posted on 05/21/2013 9:09:40 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: don-o
Jennifer Rubin?? who could have guessed it.

More and more...I get the sense that Benghazi will doom any chance that Hillary has for the WH in 2016...right now, I make it even money that she won't even run..

8 posted on 05/21/2013 9:16:58 AM PDT by ken5050 (Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
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To: don-o
critical memos never reached the secretary

it has been noted on a number of occasions that the hildahag will walk out of meetings to avoid culpability. Aside from that, the smartest woman on earth won't remember squat. I bet she remembers her head injury that kept her from testifying to congress early on but won't recall anything having to do with Benghazi up to that date.

9 posted on 05/21/2013 9:17:33 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: don-o

http://dailyrushbo.com/rush-hillary-clinton-sings-try-to-remember-song-parody-hilarious/


10 posted on 05/21/2013 9:17:49 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: don-o

The threat of a subpoena will probably cause another “stroke” Which will keep hildebeast incapacitated until Iowa where she will have a miraculous cure on a par with Fatima in 1917..


11 posted on 05/21/2013 9:20:20 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: ken5050

I had a horrible thought this morning. What if Hillary flips? Sounds crazy, I know, but there’s a lot of upside for her.


12 posted on 05/21/2013 9:21:00 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o
Washington Post DEMANDING Hillary Clinton get back under oath!

Wow! I mean just WOW!

13 posted on 05/21/2013 9:27:19 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: don-o

The devil (0) made her do it!


14 posted on 05/21/2013 9:31:16 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then.)
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To: don-o

Well basically it boils down to this: Hillary accidentally shoots herself in the foot and to hide her mistake she chops off her foot. But she gets an infection and faces a terminal death. Man I should write Hillary poems just like that other Benghazi whistleblower dude.


15 posted on 05/21/2013 9:38:04 AM PDT by TexGrill (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: don-o

16 posted on 05/21/2013 10:24:15 AM PDT by PROCON (Never underestimate the power of low information voters in large numbers.)
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To: topher
Washington Post DEMANDING Hillary Clinton get back under oath! Wow! I mean just WOW!

Don't get too excited - it's not the WaPo's editorial board, just their token conservative (Jennifer Rubin).

That said, I'm with Rubin in this -- I too can't wait to see Hillary put under oath.

But Issa can't be too hasty, because a lot of groundwork has to be done before that ... to wit, whistleblowers and other witnesses must be deposed first.

Once Issa has loads of sworn testimony from these people, then it will be time to put Hillary in the hot seat.

Hillary will have a very hard time saying "I don't remember," under oath and on camera, to the dozens and dozens of detailed statements and questions that will inevitably have been generated by the Benghazi witnesses in their depositions.

Oh, she will try to be evasive; but the jig will be up. Even the fawning MSM will not be able to deem her denials or her empty theatrics credible anymore.

17 posted on 05/21/2013 10:29:17 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: don-o

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/55350

... Gunrunning from Libya into Syria is a violation of international law. Furthermore, one has to ask how arming rebels in Syria would serve America’s interests because it doesn’t. Just like it didn’t serve America’s interest in Egypt or Libya where the Muslim Brotherhood has steadily gotten or is gaining power. Arms running would also explain why the Obama-Clinton regime gave “stand-down” orders and denied providing any help to Americans in peril.


18 posted on 05/21/2013 10:43:03 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk
Furthermore, one has to ask how arming rebels in Syria would serve America’s interests because it doesn’t.

That's exactly why they're arming rebels in Syria.

Just remember that The Won was raised from his mother's knee to hate freedom, to hate Western Civilization, and most of all to hate this country - if you remember all that, everything he and his administration do makes perfect sense.

19 posted on 05/21/2013 11:04:00 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Venturer

She’ll hit her head again.


20 posted on 05/21/2013 4:47:02 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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