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Dick Morris: Clinton’s Benghazi Cover-Up
The Hill ^ | Tuesday, January 28, 2014 | Dick Morris

Posted on 01/29/2014 6:22:50 AM PST by kristinn

Saying that her main regret during her years as secretary of State is the terror attack on the Benghazi diplomatic annex in Libya and the deaths of four Americans, Hillary Clinton continues her cover-up.

Even as she expresses her regrets, she pretends that the reason she did not act to beef up security at the compound, and that she lied afterward, blaming the attack on an Internet video, was “imperfect” intelligence information.

In fact, as the records released by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee make clear, she had all the relevant facts before her — and just ignored them. Here’s the text of Clinton’s remarks in her recent interview: “Oh, sure. I mean, you know, you make these choices based on imperfect information. And you make them to — as we say, the best of your ability. But that doesn’t mean that there’s not going to be unforeseen consequences, unpredictable twists and turns. ... You know, my biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi.”

“Unforeseen consequences” and “unpredictable twists and turns” had nothing to do with her failure to secure the compound or to send adequate security to protect it. Rather, she got every sort of warning from her own ambassador, the State Department, the CIA and the Defense Department. She just failed to act on them.

When you read the various pieces and bits of information she received in the weeks and months prior to the attack, it is hard to see how they could have been any more blunt or explicit in warning of the likelihood of future terror attacks in Benghazi.

According to the Senate Intelligence Committee, on June 12, 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency released a report titled “Libya: Terrorists Now Targeting U.S. and Western Interests,” citing “growing ties between al-Qaeda regional nodes and...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; christopherstevens; congenital; congenitalliar; glendoherty; hillaryclinton; liar; libya; seansmith; tyronewoods
Years ago William Safire called Hillary a "congenital liar."
1 posted on 01/29/2014 6:22:50 AM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn

I miss Mr. Safire.


2 posted on 01/29/2014 6:25:05 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: kristinn

After the lies the next phase of her denials is to somehow turn herself into a victim. Its the Democrat Way.


3 posted on 01/29/2014 6:26:58 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Safire was a devotee of the other “Clinton”, Mr. Blythe.


4 posted on 01/29/2014 6:29:01 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: kristinn

Dick Morris could actually do some good if he would respond to Democrat charges of the “War on Women” by detailing Hillary’s active role in suppressing all of Bill’s “Bimbo Eruptions.”


5 posted on 01/29/2014 6:29:24 AM PST by Maceman
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To: kristinn
Dick Morris is a strange dude. I'm never quite sure whether he is working for the Clintons or not. Like the magazine the Enquirer which was used by the Clinton's chief consul to diseminate information.
6 posted on 01/29/2014 6:31:08 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: kristinn
hillary will have real problem about her ethics against a Cruz/RandPaul ticket. They are both persuasive, informed speakers and won't be afraid to expose hillary's lapses, among them "what difference does it make" and hillary enabling hubby when he was exploiting young women who worked for him.

But, alas. One can't help but suspect that the Chamber of Commerce and globalist puppet master RINOs actually want a hillary presidency.

7 posted on 01/29/2014 6:33:49 AM PST by grania
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To: kristinn

8 posted on 01/29/2014 6:38:28 AM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

He is like Coulter, looking out for himself which causes him to bend with the wind.


9 posted on 01/29/2014 6:38:34 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: kristinn

... You know, my biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi.”

I’m sure it is, it cost her the presidency.
Too bad Hill, but good for America, and as
usual with the Clintons, some other Americans
had to pay the price.


10 posted on 01/29/2014 6:40:03 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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11 posted on 01/29/2014 6:55:06 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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