Posted on 10/24/2012 8:43:36 PM PDT by bd476
Ed Klein: Bill Clinton ‘Urging’ Hillary to Release Benghazi Documents That Would ‘Exonerate’ Her, Destroy Obama’s Re-Election Hopes
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:48pm by Jason Howerton
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered additional security for the U.S. mission in Benghazi ahead of the terrorist attack but the orders were never carried out, according to “legal counsel” to Clinton who spoke to best-selling author Ed Klein.
Those same sources also say former President Bill Clinton has been “urging” his wife to release official State Department documents that prove she called for additional security at the compound in Libya, which would almost certainly result in President Obama losing the election.
Appearing on TheBlazeTV’s “Wilkow!” on Wednesday night, Klein told host Andrew Wilkow that Bill and Hillary Clinton have been having “big fights” for “two or three weeks” about the issue, according to his two sources on Clinton’s legal counsel.
While Bill Clinton wishes his wife would “exonerate” herself by releasing the documents that show she wasn’t at fault for the tragic security failure in Libya, the secretary of state refuses to do so because she doesn’t want to be viewed as a traitor to the Democratic party.
On Glenn Beck’s radio show earlier on Wednesday, Klein said his information comes from two “very good” sources.
Wilkow pointed out the obvious, that the Obamas and the Clintons have a “very behind the scenes, tense relationship” — to put it lightly.
“I said to you last night, and I think I stand corrected, that it seemed like Obama out-Clintoned the Clintons,” Wilkow said. “But Clinton seems to have gone along with all of this because he knew that Hillary would be exonerated in the end.”
He then asked Klein whether he thought Clinton would resign over the Libya scandal and expose the truth.
“No,” the author said immediately. “I can’t imagine that she would resign. It would bring down the entire administration. [Obama] would lose the election and she would be essentially blamed by the left-wing base of the party.”
“She will not be tarred with the blame for bringing down this administration,” Klein added.
In an exclusive interview with TheBlaze, Klein confirmed that Bill and Hillary Clinton have been engaging in “heated discussions” where the former president has urged his wife to “release the documents that would exonerate her.”
He reiterated that Clinton has refused to do so because she fears she would look like a “Judas,” or a traitor, in the administration and it might hurt her chances for a presidential nomination in 2016.
If the claims turn out to be true and Clinton did suggest more security be sent to Benghazi, it is appropriate to ask: why didn’t it happen?
Klein said Clinton’s request for beefed up security would have to go through CIA special ops and or the Pentagon.
“But none of that would happen with the National Security advisor to the president of the United States Tom Donnellan going to the president and saying, ‘We want to send reinforcements to Libya because our ambassador is in jeopardy,’” Klein explained.
Ultimately, he indicated the ultimate authority would have been President Obama.
Wilkow and Klein also discussed what role Obama’s closest advisor, Valerie Jarrett, played in the Benghazi cover-up.
By Obama’s own admission, Klein said, the president never makes a big decision without first consulting with Jarrett.
“We have to assume that Valerie Jarrett, who is also by the way hooked into the Chicago campaign…that she was part of this cover-up in the White House.”
He continued: “The CIA got cables, the Department of Defense got cables, the NSA got cables during the attack on Benghazi, in addition to the emails that have since been made public. We know that there are cables that we haven’t seen yet, confirming the State Department cables that this was an al-Qaeda linked attack.”
These new revelations, following Tuesday night’s explosive report that 300 to 400 national security officials received emails detailing the Benghazi terrorist attack as it was happening, raise fresh questions about the truth behind the Benghazi attack.
The emails revealed that the Libyan radical Islamic group Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility for the attack just two hours after it began. White House officials told CBS News that an unmanned Predator drone was sent over the U.S. mission in Libya, providing Washington with a live feed to the chaos that unfolded.
“300 to 400 national security officials received emails detailing the Benghazi terrorist attack as it was happening”
These guys have to testify. Get an independent prosecutor now.
I don't think Bill really wanted to speak for him at the convention. And, I don't think Hillary likes working closely with Obama. She is happy with the distance between them. She will have to defend herself if she wants to run in the future.
This is a zero-sum game for the future of the democratic party.
It only matters who survives, not how weakened you are, as long as your enemy is dead.
They’re dribbling the info - there’s no way Hillary will fall on the sword for Jarrett let alone Obama.
However, since her current campaign debt is down from owing $25 million and now only owes $100,000 to Mark Penn, Doug Schoen and Michael Berland for campaign consulting, she could afford to turn on Obama.
Hillary is a pathological liar. I would not put much weight in what she says.
It wasn’t that long ago she was blaming the video for the attack. This is all
Just rope-a-dope, a diversion.
She knows what SHE did to Vince Foster. Same could happen to Chelsea, meaning “Breitbarted”???
These people are very screwed and calculated!!!
“she doesn’t want to be viewed as a traitor to the Democratic party.”
These Dems never heard of putting country before party.
They have absolutely no SHAME!
Power Mongers and Traitors All!
She needs to resign and then march into Darryl Issa’s committee room and swear herself in. Like Jack Ryan did in Clear and Present Danger.
Her only hope of salvaging her political career is to come clean. Obama will destroy her if she doesn’t make the first move.
Many times
I wouldn’t hold my breath as she stood alongside Obama repeating his lies. If there are files that would exonerate her they could arrange for them to be leaked just as the recent memos have been leaked. There are ways around it and the Clintons are very adept getting information out there.
I disagree.... I think Hillary would cross him.... makes sense... if he wins, at the end of the next 4 years, the country will be a total mess and weary of anyone associated to Obama.... so likely that the 2016 election would be won by a Republican. So let Obama lose now, so that Hillary could run 2016.
For some reason Issa and the GOP are afraid of her.
Maybe she still has copies of those FBI files. She should have been the first to be put under oath.
Hillary would rather be a traitor to the USA than to the rat party.
She’s true to form isn’t she - subjecting herself to endless humiliation for the sake of her so called husband and the rat party. And now she’s rewarded with pretending to be the United States Secretary of State.
It seems to me that the failure to protect our people in Benghazi is simple politics. Obama did not want to upset the Muslim Brotherhood by inserting US military in a rescue attempt. Obama has decided to back the Brotherhood and keeping on their good side was, in Obama’s mind, worth the lives of the four Americans. He may have been further influenced by the fact that the Ambassador and his guard were white.
As much as can’t stand Slick Willie he is right. This would be a politically astute move for Hillary. The party would not blame her, Obama is going to lose anyway and if she brings him down harder, less crap on the party is probably what they will think. He can be the sacrifice. They can spend the next 4 years blaming it on Obama. Come on Hillary do it, or at least leak those documents through someone else. Leave them lying on a desk somewhere.......
Man Up Hilary! Do the right thing now!!
As much as I’d like to believe it, this sounds like a huge CYA for all parties involved in the coverup.
1. Provides Hillary cover from charges of incompetence by spreading a rumor that she asked for more security.
2. Allows Hillary to look good with the socialist party by making her appear fiercely loyal to the point of falling on the sword.
3. Bill gets cover by simply being able to deny the story.
4. Obama gets cover by also being able to deny the story and to continue to allow Hillary to take the heat.
An attempt to make lemonade out of lemons.
It would be great if I was wrong.
Hopefully she’ll do the right thing and stand up on her own two feet.
You got that right. This was the perfect storm.
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