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Benghazi attack may cloud Clinton’s legacy
WaPo ^ | 10/09/2012 | Anne Gearan

Posted on 10/10/2012 4:57:56 AM PDT by barryobi

The fatal attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya last month has become a test of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s leadership and a threat to her much-admired legacy as America’s top diplomat just a few months before she plans to step down.

Clinton was among the first Obama administration officials to publicly condemn the attack and mourn the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. But as the State Department has weathered Republican-led criticism that it misread warning signs before the Sept. 11 attack, Clinton has been far less visible.

Clinton will not appear at a Wednesday oversight hearing on the Libya attack, where House Republicans have said they will question the State Department’s security preparations and the administration’s account of the attack. The State Department will instead send a trusted career diplomat along with three security officials.

Ahead of the hearing, State Department officials provided new details about the attack while asserting that there had been no way to predict or prevent the sustained assault.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; bho44; christopherstevens; clinton; impeachnow; libya; obama; obamalegacy; soshillary; waronterror
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To: barryobi

No Way
The Bubbarina’s legacy as a brave Statesperson is engraved in stone after she dodged those bullets on the Balkan Tarmac


21 posted on 10/10/2012 5:39:03 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: martin_fierro
How those shameless hacks can continue to show their faces in public is beyond me.

Because polls have shown that she is the most admired politician in the USA and he has a sky approval rating

Talk about a country of brain washed sheep
22 posted on 10/10/2012 5:41:47 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: barryobi

“Billy hates Barry and I think may get pissed enough to try to torpedo Barry’s re-election bid”

Barry knows this, that’s why the Bus will remained parked until Nov. 7th.


23 posted on 10/10/2012 5:42:12 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: barryobi
“...cloud Cankel’s legacy.” ?
What has she accomplished ?
24 posted on 10/10/2012 5:43:35 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
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To: IronJack
“Well-respected”???? By whom?

Sad to say by the majority of the brain washed boobs in this country
Polls show he is the most admired politician in the USA
25 posted on 10/10/2012 5:44:05 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: TigerClaws

Why indeed. False flag op.

I got plenty of Bacon & Bacon-Cheddar Popcorn ready for this coming 0bummer/Klintoon-BS op...

http://store.baconsalt.com/All-Products_c_33.html


26 posted on 10/10/2012 5:44:40 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Libs, dems, unions, leftist scum & murderous muzzies - are like bacteria: attack, attack, attack!)
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To: barryobi

Which “legacy” she has so many? Maybe they are referring to the stolen FBI files, perhaps her cover up and lying about Lewinsky, possibly the cleaning up of Vince Fosters office after his suicide, or could it be......

Hillary Clinton Tells Grand Jury She Cannot Account for Records
By FRANCIS X. CLINES
Published: January 27, 1996
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Hillary Rodham Clinton testified for more than four hours today before a Federal grand jury investigating whether there has been obstruction of justice at the White House in the inquiry into the First Lady’s former Arkansas law firm.

With a nervous but determined smile, Mrs. Clinton emerged from the extensive grand jury session and declared, “I tried to be as helpful as I could in their investigation efforts.”

It’s been a long day,” she said after enduring the extraordinary event of the President’s wife being summoned to defend her veracity in the convoluted issue, known broadly as Whitewater, that has been intensifying in the opening weeks of a Presidential election year.

“I was glad to have the opportunity to tell the grand jury what I have been telling all of you,” she told a throng of reporters who had waited into the evening darkness for her to emerge from the Federal courthouse. “I do not know how the billing records came to be found where they were found, but I am pleased that they were found because they confirm what I have been saying,” she declared. She also confirmed that much of the questioning concerned the copies of long-sought billing records from her days at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., that mysteriously turned up three weeks ago.


27 posted on 10/10/2012 5:57:39 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: ken5050

Hell, she’s got Vince Foster’s BLOOD on her hands......Monica had Bill’s Presigoo on her....NOTHING stops these Clintons because their supporters have NO MORALS!!


28 posted on 10/10/2012 6:01:03 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Clinton’s legacy was ruined on March 7, 2009 when she handed Sergei Lavrov a reset button and screwed up the translation.

It was downhill from there.


29 posted on 10/10/2012 6:28:29 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz
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To: barryobi

Cloud her legacy? Nope!!! She’ll still be remembered as a lying, incompetent, POS.


30 posted on 10/10/2012 6:30:01 AM PDT by anoldafvet (One million people attended Obama's inauguration, 14 of them missed work)
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To: Scotswife

I just heard Andrea Mitchell report THIS MORNING, that the State Department is STILL claiming that the Ambassador died at the hospital after being tenderly treated by doctors.

Thank God for the internet. Lies are having trouble getting their boots on...


31 posted on 10/10/2012 6:42:49 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Maceman

Excellent comparison. And do you know whether the Stevens family has spoken out in fury at his brutal murder? The poor Kopechnes kept their mouths shut, too.


32 posted on 10/10/2012 6:46:10 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: barryobi

The Buck stops with you, Hilly. Own it and resign.

BTW, how many in the Liberal Agenda Media are calling for Hilly to RESIGN?


33 posted on 10/10/2012 6:55:50 AM PDT by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Ann Archy

Hillary looked very guilty when the Ambassador was killed.


34 posted on 10/10/2012 7:15:24 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: ncpatriot

Blood on one’s hands will make one feel guilty...even a Clinton. RESIGN NOW, HILLARY!!!


35 posted on 10/10/2012 9:33:42 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: miss marmelstein

It was nice of those bad guys to clear out so quickly so the good guys could take over and be wonderful angels of mercy right?


36 posted on 10/10/2012 11:25:49 AM PDT by Scotswife
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