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Fact Check: Clinton’s Benghazi chapter has holes
Fox News ^ | May 31, 2014 | Catherine Herridge

Posted on 05/31/2014 3:45:40 PM PDT by don-o

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In the limited excerpts published Friday from Clinton’s Benghazi chapter, the former secretary of State continued to defend the administration from what she termed a “political slugfest.”

Specifically, she defended the flawed explanation -- used by then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice five days after the attack -- that an obscure anti-Islam video fueled a protest gone awry in Benghazi.

"There were scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives," Clinton wrote, according to Politico. "It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video.It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were. Both assertions deny not only the evidence but logic as well."

Further, she reportedly wrote that Rice relied on existing intelligence in making her statements.

But former CIA deputy director Mike Morell, who now works for Clinton's principal gatekeeper Philippe Reines at the D.C. consulting firm Beacon Global Strategies, testified in April that it was Rice who linked the video to the Benghazi attack. Morrell, who still faces allegations he misled Congress over the so-called talking points, said the video was not part of the CIA analysis as Clinton seems to suggest.

Morell told members of the House Intelligence Committee that Rice’s claims about the attacks evolving from a protest were “exactly what the talking points said, and it was exactly what the intelligence community analysts believed.”

However, he said: “When she talked about the video, my reaction was, that's not something that the analysts have attributed this attack to."

An independent review of more than 4,000 social media postings, conducted by a leading social media monitoring firm in December 2012, also found the YouTube video was a non-event in Benghazi.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazicoverup; benghazigate; benghazisecurity; benghazitimeline; benghazivideo; benrhodes; herridge; hillarybenghazi; jaycarney; libya; susanrice
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To: don-o

She’s a congenital liar.


41 posted on 05/31/2014 8:32:02 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“The liberals, if they were intellectually honest,”

Liberals are freaking weasels.


42 posted on 05/31/2014 8:43:10 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: blueunicorn6; WildHighlander57; Old Sarge; null and void; Velveeta; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; ...
It is a fact that Hillary and Obama knew immediately that the video had nothing to do with the attack in Benghazi. So, why did they make that commercial apologizing to the Moslems?

Because they were told to. It was part of the surrender deal at Benghazi that Obama agreed to. The Al Qaeda boys are smarter than Hillary and Obama gave them credit for. Treason is where United States citizens provide aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States.

The money missing from the State Department and the American weapons mysteriously shipped into Libya and left unguarded so they could be “stolen” is providing aid.

But the Al Qaeda boys wanted to ensure that Hillary and Obama violated the “comfort” part, too. So they told Hillary and Obama that they had to make and air that commercial apologizing to the Moslems.

Think about it. Why did it HAVE to be Hillary and Obama in the commercial? It is because Al Qaeda wanted to have Hillary and Obama by the short hairs, and they do. She is literally fighting for her life. Treason is punishable by death. If she was smart, and I don’t think she is, she’d cut a deal with Gowdy tonight.

35 posted on ‎5‎/‎31‎/‎2014‎ ‎6‎:‎49‎:‎45‎ ‎PM by blueunicorn6

43 posted on 05/31/2014 9:19:35 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT

Bump


44 posted on 05/31/2014 9:22:41 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: blueunicorn6; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
See post #35!

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

45 posted on 05/31/2014 9:38:10 PM PDT by null and void (Fascists never think they're fascists. They just think everybody should obey them.)
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To: don-o

The attack did not occur because of any Libyan’s views of the video, whether from seeing it directly or by hearing about it. It, the video, was never the cause as much as anyone in Libya or anyone in the Obama administration offered it as an excuse. The attack occurred because it was planned and that planning did not need the convenience of the video to excuse it.

Billary and Obama’s acceptance of any credibility for the video as a cause is the erroneous and warped acceptance of a fellow traveler - one who is less informed than those who are really in charge and because they are less informed, and they know it, they accept - out of ignorance - what those really in charge claim.

Those really in charge of the attack were Libyan Islamists and the world-wide anti-western radical Islamist movements do not need any central international headquarters to all be speaking on the same page, whether they be armed Islamist militants and terrorists, the Islamist leaders of many Middle East nations, including many so-called “friends” of the U.S., and western academics and foreign policy wonks who have bought hook line and sinker the Middle East Islamist myths about what’s wrong with the world and who is responsible - the west.

Billary-Obama have been fellow travelers of the geopolitical line of the Islamists - “the west” is too intolerant of Islam and THAT is the source of Islamist anger toward the west.

Once the world-wide Islamist view wanted to use the video as the excuse for the well planned attack that needed no excuse, their fellow travelers in the west, Billary & Obama included, accepted what they were told to believe and it fit Obama’s entire apology outreach to Islam.


46 posted on 05/31/2014 9:51:03 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: okie01
I have also noted the total silence of General Petraeus. He as the former head of the CIA knows everything. It is obvious he is being blackmailed.

If Petraeus has already been fired for diddling his biographer, what else could they possibly have on him?

I do not know. I do know if what he knew supported Obama's version of Bengazhi he would have been put forward day after day after day to support Obama's narrative.

As head of the CIA he also knows all the truth.

Why and the hell is he not front and center for testimony?

47 posted on 05/31/2014 10:49:13 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: TigersEye

bkmk


48 posted on 05/31/2014 11:03:30 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: LucyT

I read somewhere that it was our side that sent the video to Egypt along with our sincerest apologies trying to stir something up and even that failed.Also we ran adds all over the mid- East apologizing for the video but no one took the bait.


49 posted on 06/01/2014 2:58:41 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: cpdiii

I sometimes wonder if we ever knew who the real Petraeus was or is?


50 posted on 06/01/2014 3:01:12 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: LucyT

Might as well toss Barrack’s February take on the mystery into the mix. That’s Ben Barrack.

http://shoebat.com/2014/02/15/clintons-bushes-got-u-s-islamic-mess/


51 posted on 06/01/2014 3:06:34 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: cpdiii

He values the life of himself or his family members ?


52 posted on 06/01/2014 3:09:33 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: don-o
Too many cats out of too many bags. Of course, FReepers know that the video piece is small beer in relation to the actual depth of the atrocity that has been perpetrated.

Not to mention that she is actually viable for a Dim run for the WH - God help us to not help her....

53 posted on 06/01/2014 3:16:49 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: rodguy911

I don’t care what Hitlary wrote in her “book”, she will do what ever she can to cover up for both her and odumbo’s failures to protect our people who were in harms way.

I truly hope Gowdy can get the facts out and bring both her and odumbo down.


54 posted on 06/01/2014 4:21:58 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: MurrietaMadman

Wow what a piece brilliant,thanks for thelink.! This was a much clearer analysis of Mena than I had read in the past.Well done.


55 posted on 06/01/2014 5:14:59 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: DaveA37
NO question. Perhaps that's why zero is on a campaign to look as good as possible before the inevitable hearings. The prisoner swap,getting rid of conseki etc. etc.anything to look good before Gowdy does his thing.Lots riding with Gowdy right now.
56 posted on 06/01/2014 5:18:00 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: rodguy911

If I were Gowdy, I would be EXTRA CAREFUL what I ate, where I went and what ever I was doing. He has certainly made himself a large target for those that would do him harm and we all know who that might be.


57 posted on 06/01/2014 5:21:35 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: null and void

Like you graphic. Post 35 makes no sense at all. The simple reason that O and Hill made the commercial is simple....he because he are one and she because she will do whatever she can to be president. NO ONE will EVER charge either of them with treason.

Treason also requires utterances and those haven’t been made.

Sorry for me it is a bridge to far.


58 posted on 06/01/2014 5:29:56 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: WildHighlander57

You’re welcome.


59 posted on 06/01/2014 6:22:02 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: cpdiii
USA Petraeus, David H.Chairman, KKR Global Institute

BIlderberg official participation list

60 posted on 06/01/2014 8:26:35 AM PDT by opentalk
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