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Clinton confidante at center of Benghazi damage-control tied to probe of suspected diplomat crimes
The Washington Times ^ | June 13, 2013 | Guy Taylor

Posted on 06/14/2013 5:52:46 AM PDT by don-o

A longtime confidante of Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton who reportedly played a key role in the State Department’s damage-control efforts on the Benghazi attack last year is also named in accusations that department higher-ups quashed investigations into diplomats’ potential criminal activity.

Cheryl Mills, who served in a dual capacity in recent years as general counsel and chief of staff to Mrs. Clinton as secretary of state, was accused of attempting to stifle congressional access to a diplomat who held a senior post in Libya at the time of the attack.

Now she has become the closest member of Mrs. Clinton’s inner circle to have her name appear in an internal State Department Office of Inspector General memo at the heart of this week’s scandal.

The memo, believed to have been based on anonymous complaints from rank-and-file agents in the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security that arose during a 2012 inspector general’s review of the bureau, has sent shock waves through Foggy Bottom since becoming public Monday.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; cherylmills; hillary; statedeptscandals

1 posted on 06/14/2013 5:52:47 AM PDT by don-o
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To: MestaMachine

ping


2 posted on 06/14/2013 5:53:49 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

Here comes another promotion.


3 posted on 06/14/2013 5:55:48 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: don-o

Cheryl Mills has been helping Bill and Hill bury embarrassing skeletons since their days together in Arkansas. I’ll bet they have paid her well over the years to keep shoveling their.......waste.


4 posted on 06/14/2013 5:56:12 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: don-o

I wonder if the CIA has an enemies list?


5 posted on 06/14/2013 5:57:23 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: don-o

Cheryl Mills was also the Bimbo Eruption fixer and enforcer during the Clinton Presidency and the prime architect of the Nuts and Sluts propaganda offensive.

She was also at the focal point of a number of other scandals of that era.

Kind of makes one nostalgic for the old days.


6 posted on 06/14/2013 5:58:44 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: don-o

So is this Chicago Thugs taking out Hillary..or CIA making it rough for Obama.

I can’t keep track


7 posted on 06/14/2013 6:01:00 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: don-o
Now she has become the closest member of Mrs. Clinton’s inner circle to have her name appear in an internal State Department Office of Inspector General memo at the heart of this week’s scandal.

This week's scandal. Doesn't that speak volumes about the Obama Administration?

8 posted on 06/14/2013 6:01:37 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: rdcbn

I thought Betsey Wright was to Gov. Clinton.


9 posted on 06/14/2013 6:04:14 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Cowboy Bob
I wonder if the CIA has an enemies list?

You could investigate and ask, but since people around DC don't seem to "know" what's going on in their organizations, or "remember", you probably won't find out.

They used to, though. JFK found out.

10 posted on 06/14/2013 6:06:45 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Jesus, Please Save America!)
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To: RummyChick

I saw her on FNC the other day.. she just oozes slime and guilt.


11 posted on 06/14/2013 6:10:33 AM PDT by txhurl (RNC 'voter suppression': attempting to limit each voter to ONE vote!)
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To: freekitty

It took a village to manage the scandals back then and both were members of that particular village.


12 posted on 06/14/2013 6:15:27 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: don-o
When will the media ask why the survivors of Benghazi are held in secret locations and given secret identities so they couldn't be contacted?

...oh

13 posted on 06/14/2013 6:21:35 AM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep one hand on my shoulder and the other over my mouth.)
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To: rdcbn

cheryl mills is a soul-less, integrity-absent, morals-challenged, guiltless degenerate...therefore, a perfect clintoon employee. Also, she is the perfect DIMocRAT.


14 posted on 06/14/2013 6:23:40 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...
It's a damn ping pong game. state, whitehouse, state, whitehouse. Never ends.

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


15 posted on 06/14/2013 6:40:41 AM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: MestaMachine

They are dancing around the real issue, WHERE was Barry and what was he doing after leaving Panetta in the “dark” that afternoon with NOTHING for him to order for the military. He is said to call Killary around 10pm, to screw up the damaging talking point that was presented to poor Rice!!!


16 posted on 06/14/2013 12:40:29 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Ya think!?

*popcorn time*


17 posted on 06/14/2013 12:41:58 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: freeangel; MestaMachine

She will suddenly show up on the white House staff as a NSC member along with Susan Rice and the recent addition Mueller (sp?).


18 posted on 06/14/2013 1:02:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: All; kcvl; Marine_Uncle; TigersEye; justa-hairyape; onyx; MestaMachine; NormsRevenge
Deputy CIA Director Resigns

Post #11

Per Shannon Bream

Deputy CIA Dir Michael Morell - played key role in crafting #Benghazi “talking points” - announces ‘retirement’ effective August 9th

Also from post #40 by kcvl :

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The 100 pages of e-mails showed a disagreement between David H. Petraeus, then the director of the C.I.A., and his deputy, Michael J. Morell, over how much to disclose in the talking points, which were used by Susan E. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, in television appearances days after the attack.

Mr. Morell, administration officials said, deleted a reference in the draft version of the talking points to C.I.A. warnings of extremist threats in Libya, which State Department officials objected to because they feared it would reflect badly on them.

Mr. Morell, officials said, acted on his own and not in response to pressure from the State Department. But when the final draft of the talking points was sent to Mr. Petraeus, he dismissed them, saying “Frankly, I’d just as soon not use this,” adding that the heavily scrubbed account would not satisfy the House Democrat who had requested it.

“This is certainly not what Vice Chairman Ruppersberger was hoping to get,” Mr. Petraeus wrote, referring to Representative C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, which had asked Mr. Petraeus for talking points to use with reporters in discussing the attack on Benghazi.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/us/politics/e-mails-show-jostling-over-benghazi-talking-points.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

19 posted on 06/14/2013 1:14:16 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Looks like the game plan is to protect Hillary’s chances of running in 2016.


20 posted on 06/14/2013 1:57:10 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......)
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