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Joe Klein Clears Hillary on Benghazi: CIA 'Should Be Able to Protect Themselves'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 10/20/2015 6:02:50 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

This could be the worst whitewashing since Tom Sawyer suckered people into helping him with that fence . . . On today's Morning Joe, Joe Klein cleared Hillary of responsibility for American deaths in Benghazi, and blamed the CIA.

According to Klein, "this really was a CIA station there, not so much a consulate, and those guys should be able to protect themselves in most circumstances." Klein doesn't think Hillary should even be called to testify: "this is something that does not rise to the level of the Secretary of State." He suggested instead that David Petraeus be hauled before the committee.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; clinton; hillaryclinton; joeklein; whitewash

1 posted on 10/20/2015 6:02:50 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: ColdOne; AmericanCheeseFood; netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; ...

Joe Klein’s despicable attempt to shift the blame for the Benghazi deaths from Hillary to the CIA.

Guaranteed engine-starter ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 10/20/2015 6:04:24 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

STAND DOWN mean STAND DOWN.

Air support was not permitted to fire upon the attackers.


3 posted on 10/20/2015 6:06:24 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oh, well if Joe Klein says so...


4 posted on 10/20/2015 6:08:08 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hillary is saying that there have already been umpteen investigations.

NONE of them brought the nature of her server or other details to light.

Will witnesses to the attack be permitted to testify this time?

Most importantly, will Hillary be UNDER OATH to tell the truth and NOT DECEIVE Congress?


5 posted on 10/20/2015 6:09:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Hillary's testimony on Benghazi be under oath? Baseball players were tried for perjury.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I am hoping Trey Gowdy has some great questions for her.

AND DON’T LET HER MAKE AN ‘OPENING STATEMENT’


6 posted on 10/20/2015 6:09:37 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sanders and Klein snorting the party lines. Hillaryous.


7 posted on 10/20/2015 6:10:01 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: a fool in paradise
“Hillary is saying that there have already been umpteen investigations.”

Yes, and there were umpteen women who claimed your husband had relationships with them and some who said he assaulted them. Those were all dismissed until one of them kept a piece of evidence that prevented deniability. Umpteen women claimed Bill Cosby drugged them and sexually assaulted them, and those were also ignored until the weight of the evidence accumulated to the point it was no longer possible to dismiss it. Sometimes it takes persistence to bring the privileged to justice.

8 posted on 10/20/2015 6:28:41 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And it was the STATE DEPT that Stevens asked for more security. And it was the STATE DEPT that denied more security. And it was the STATE DEPT that had to have issued the stand down order. How could this NOT be the responsibility of the STATE DEPT and the SEC of STATE??


9 posted on 10/20/2015 6:45:09 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

American politics is grossly short of guillotines.


10 posted on 10/20/2015 6:51:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And Joe Klein’s military credentials are what?


11 posted on 10/20/2015 6:55:15 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: originalbuckeye
And it was the STATE DEPT that Stevens asked for more security. And it was the STATE DEPT that denied more security. And it was the STATE DEPT that had to have issued the stand down order. How could this NOT be the responsibility of the STATE DEPT and the SEC of STATE??

Answer: "Republicans! Gun control! Government shutdown! Global warming!"

See?

12 posted on 10/20/2015 7:06:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So is he saying our ambassador is CIA? How about the regulations about security for our ambassadors in hot beds of terrorists,Hillary said she sent her friend Stevens there,WHY?
To be slaughtered? Hey Klein,why don’t you do some real work and find out why Hillary was sending American Stinger missiles to al-Qaeda terrorists in BEnghazi which were used to shoot down American Helicopters. Maybe that’s why you don’t want her to testify,the American people to find out


13 posted on 10/20/2015 5:52:02 PM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Thanks a bunch, Joe, but if we want an idiot opinion on anything we'd go right to the top.
We'd ask Odumbo.
14 posted on 10/21/2015 7:54:46 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Maybe Klein would like to tell us why the CIA had a compound and 50 people in Benghazi?


15 posted on 10/21/2015 7:59:27 AM PDT by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: originalbuckeye; governsleastgovernsbest; 2ndDivisionVet; All

How does the State Department issue stand down orders to the CIA? And how attentive was Petreus, as head of CIA, when he was busy messing around with those Islamic beauties in Florida? The pro Republican Washington Times article below speaks of a chaotic scramble at the Libiyan CIA offices that day.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/14/stand-down-cia-benghazi-team-clash-led-controversi/?page=all


16 posted on 10/22/2015 12:04:47 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Gee, I thought our Ambassadors were under the Domain of The United States State Department.

Carolyn Kennedy, Ambassador to Japan is a CIA Agent?

I knew it!

I just heard her Grandpa Joe is in Cold Storage, right next to Walt Disney.


17 posted on 10/22/2015 12:13:53 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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