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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: o2bfree

The story I’m reading is that Ambassador Stevens was supposed to be taken hostage, and BHO2 was to be a hero in ordering him freed, winning accolades for the rescue.

That is why no one came to those four American’s rescue. It was a set-up.

It is also why the White House was dazed and confused by the actual events. It wasn’t intended to be a bloody sacrifice, just a taking of prisoners.

So the White House is pointing fingers every-which-way. They’re responsible for the killings, for conspiring with a branch of Al Qaida, and it has literally expoloded in their faces.

BHO2 isn’t smart enough to have thought of this one. More likely, it is something dreamed up by Valerie Jarrett.


181 posted on 10/15/2012 8:23:39 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Whatever BO and Axlegrease have on the Clintons is a doozy. Bill and Hill kiss his skinny a#4 24/7. Kinda funny. One day the evil surrounding them will bring them all down. Whatever they are covering up for each other is massive.


182 posted on 10/15/2012 8:27:01 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Nachum

I really don’t believe O and B did not know. I am Very shocked Hill would agree to be the scapegoat. Either she’s been strong armed or she must believe in their ‘greater cause’ - which I highly doubt. Hill has already invested too much in her career to take the fall for someone she doesn’t even like. This story gets stranger every day.


183 posted on 10/15/2012 8:37:50 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: arrogantsob

She is a movie producer who worked on a movie about the 2008 election. In that capacity she hobnobbed with the big democrats, and the big Hillary dems are the ones she says told her all this stuff. She says she heard Bill Clinton say from his own mouth that he knows Obama is not eligible. There’s another gal who has said the same things. Can’t remember the name off-hand, but if I’m remembering correctly both these gals have signed affidavits attesting to these claims.

The system is flawed in that it does not allow the little people to hold the corrupt people in the system accountable between elections. Right now law enforcement claims they don’t want to politicize law enforcement but they are ALL politicizing it - folks like Nifong, Ronnie Earl, and Fitzgerald by prosecuting politicians when there is no evidence, and folks like every AG in the dad-blamed place because they have evidence of felonies but don’t want to pursue it because the crooks are politicians.

The legal department of the Nebraska Secretary of State told me that even if Bob Bauer, Antonio Villaigarosa, and Alice Germond were rotting in jail, convicted of perjury and fraud for the Certification of Nomination they signed, the SOS would STILL have to put the name on the ballot because the statute doesn’t specifically state that the Certification had to be LAWFUL (non-perjurious and non-fraudulent).

I asked the NE Treasurer’s office if taxes have to be paid with lawful money, and it just so happens that the tax statute does use the term “lawful money”. I’m wondering if all the statutes about licensing particularly state that the license or certification has to be LAWFUL. Or if it specifically states that fees have to be paid with LAWFUL money. The whole idea is that unless every jot and tiddle about the circumstances are spelled out in the law, these crooked lawyers will claim that the law means nothing. Unless the law says exactly who, when, where, and how something is to be enforced, nobody can do anything to enforce it.

I better stop there. I could be at it all night if I tried to explain why I say that the system is broken. The point about the above is this: unless the laws give you and me specific authorization to do something about these do-nothing bureaucrats, we’re stuck with whatever they want to do. Period. The laws be darned. Congress and the czars have shown us that on the macro level, and it’s the same at every level of government.


184 posted on 10/15/2012 8:45:00 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: arrogantsob

Yea, well ...Their candidates can come out of no where fast. But, I think it won’t happen again. Americans don’t want anymore mystery candidates.


185 posted on 10/15/2012 8:45:06 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Clyde5445

Excellent!

GOOD to see you!


186 posted on 10/15/2012 8:50:07 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: maggief
As Secretary of State she is responsible for what happens in the embassies and consulates. However, the Secretary of State carries out the policy wishes and instructions of the President.

There was clearly a policy of a very low security profile in Libya. That consulate was effectively defenseless. The important question is who instituted the low security at the consulate in Benghazi? Was it Hillary or the White House? The consulate in Libya had repeatedly asked for more security and it was denied by the State Department. What was the motive for denying this essential protection? Was this the policy of The State Department or was the State Department complying with policy from the White House?

Then there is the matter of lying by the White House and the State Department, that will not go away.

187 posted on 10/15/2012 8:58:49 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: maggief

What does this mean? Is she going to get a pay cut? Is she going to have to rub Michelle’s bare feet each night for a year? Is she going to be fired or resign for incompetence?

This is meaningless drivel. If she is not firing people or being fired, then she must be blaming the dead guys.


188 posted on 10/15/2012 8:58:49 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: petitfour
What does this mean? Is she going to get a pay cut? Is she going to have to rub Michelle’s bare feet each night for a year? Is she going to be fired or resign for incompetence?

You are correct. If she is "truly" taking responsibility for a FUBAR of this great magnitude the logical thing to do is apologize for the failure and resign. If she is "truly" responsible and does not resign within 24 hours she should be fired by the President.

She has not mentioned resigning and the President has not mentioned firing. I do not know what the deal is, but Obama and Hillary CUT A DEAL.

189 posted on 10/15/2012 9:08:03 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: FredZarguna

That is probably a brilliant read of the situation.


190 posted on 10/15/2012 9:44:52 PM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: HollyB

“Americans don’t want anymore mystery candidates.”

Oh, I agree.


191 posted on 10/15/2012 9:48:01 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: FredZarguna

No I am not dreaming and would prefer to be wrong. I would welcome her as the RAT candidate but her Sell-By date has passed. No matter what Bill does or doesn’t do. Her chance has gone.

Who does she have “favorability” with? Men? NO!! Women? Married - NO. Young - NO. Some Left wing women, yeah but they are getting older and will count for less tomorrow than they do today. I would doubt that Black Men would even vote for her.

Tied as she is to this administration, forget about it.


192 posted on 10/15/2012 9:54:30 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: butterdezillion; null and void; PhilDragoo

Bettina Viviano says that when killing Bill’s good friend Bill Gwatney and Rep Stephanie Tubbs in turn (right after they each agreed to present a petition challenging Obama’s eligibility at the 2008 Dem Convention0 didn’t work to stop the Clintons, the Obama handlers threatened to kill Chelsea, and that worked.

We know the on-air reporters and talk show hosts on at least 3 cable news networks and at least 2 radio syndicates were told that if they or their guests mentioned Obama’s eligibility problems their career would be over and the lives of they and their loved ones were in doubt.

Those who say that so many people would not be able to remain quiet about something this big have not absorbed the things that some of us here have been on the front lines observing for the past 4 years. The HI state registrar confirmed to AZ SOS Ken Bennett that Obama’s HI birth certificate is legally non-valid and the online image is a forgery (which was also confirmed to KS SOS Kris Kobach) - and we can’t find anybody who will report anything except the exact opposite.

I put nothing past Obama’s handlers. They are liars. They are killers. They are evil. George Soros has openly said that he doesn’t want the US to win the “war on terror” because then the US and capitalism will be strong, and he believes that he has to rid the world of those 2 great evils (America and capitalism) since he is GOD. And we thought Ahmadinejad was crazy - and that deterrence is futile when you’re dealing with somebody that crazy. Ahmadinejad’s got nothing on Soros - they are both evil men who believe they are either Allah’s servant or GOD HIMSELF.

And our system is totally compromised. I could talk far longer than anybody here has the stamina to listen, about just how badly our system is compromised. The people in positions of responsibility and power are lawless and they answer only to lawless thugs.

Breitbart had courage. Breitbart called Joe Arpaio to find out what evidence Joe had concerning Obama’s posted birth certificate and told Joe that the evidence was good. Less than 5 hours later Breitbart was dead, and the autopsy performed never even CHECKED for signs of covert assassination. The same day - the day of Arpaio’s first press conference - Rush Limbaugh received what he understood as a death threat, with reference to 2 famous assassinations.

We’re talking Al Capone here, except that the Soros-Obama machine has the full power of government, military, the intelligence agencies and operatives, and the media in its hands. And it has united the world forces of communism and Islamism in a battle against America and capitalism.


Post of the year.


193 posted on 10/15/2012 9:57:24 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: butterdezillion

Sorry but I do not believe people are babbling about murders to strangers.

Clinton knows that The Disaster was not a Natural Born citizen no matter where he was born. It is wrong to concentrate on the birth certificate rather than the non-citizen status of his father. There will be no way to prove where The Disaster was born.

There is no possible political system that would allow “little people” such recourse as you wish for nor should there be in reality. They are called “little” for a good reason, having little influence on events. This is the best there is. It even provides too much influence to the “little” people because in reality they do not really CARE about this corruption and accept it almost without limit from Democrats.

Nevertheless, if those voters who slightly care were not so gullible and easily deluded much of the corruption you despise would be controlled.

The People get the system they deserve in the long run.


194 posted on 10/15/2012 10:05:03 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: maggief
Post #195, someone probably already has this. The buck stops with Obama, not her.

Don't let this snake squirm out of the hold. He needs to answer for this. Hillary was in the South Pac playing with grass skirts. Just like Obama to be hiding under one.

195 posted on 10/15/2012 10:22:45 PM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: maggief

Besides he’s imprisoned the producer; dhimmi/jizya/bow alert!


196 posted on 10/15/2012 10:24:04 PM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: butterdezillion

This is the only remedy:

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams

(By “gallantry” he meant illicit sexual affairs btw.)


197 posted on 10/15/2012 10:24:11 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: mwl8787
He probably didn't, and he probably has no idea how to react. The earlier speculation was that BJC went to Greg Craig to see what legal jeopardy HRC might be in now that the White House had clearly set her up to take the fall. But what if, instead, he went to make sure she had no legal issues if she preempted the pResident? Greg Craig would be the person to ask if the umbrella of Executive Immunity would continue to protect Hillary if she took a position that the pResident claimed was false.

Now, what can 0bama do? He was setting her up, and rather than let the blame hang in the air for a few days, she's admitted she was "guilty." But then, he's still on the hook for the cover-up, and she's not running for anything this year...

198 posted on 10/15/2012 10:47:07 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Joe Biden, giving new meaning to the term "Fantasy Football.")
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To: arrogantsob
http://www.gallup.com/poll/154742/hillary-clinton-maintains-near-record-high-favorability.aspx
199 posted on 10/15/2012 10:49:53 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Joe Biden, giving new meaning to the term "Fantasy Football.")
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To: FredZarguna

Polls of “adults” with no break out of D/R/I convince me of nothing. Hillary will look much worse in four years. The last four years have not been kind to her. I doubt the next four will be either.


200 posted on 10/15/2012 10:58:36 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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