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Tuesday, July 05, 2016

How the White House misled on Benghazi

New evidence obtained by the House Select Committee on Benghazi suggests the Obama administration forged ahead with a narrative that blamed the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi on a protest over a YouTube clip, despite clear and consistent signs that the violence was planned and executed by a terrorist group.

In a 48-page summary of the committee's findings that was penned by a pair of Republican committee members and made public Tuesday, Reps. Jim Jordan and Mike Pompeo argued the administration presented the public with an explanation that had little basis in fact because President Obama was preoccupied with declaring terrorism dead ahead of his reelection.

Although then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has attempted to attribute the misinformation in her early statements on Benghazi to the "fog of war," Pompeo said Clinton was among the many administration officials with almost immediate access to intelligence that indicated the attack was carried out by Islamic terrorists.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hillary should be so ashamed and should be stoned for lying to the families of those who got killed.

Anonymous said...

The fog persists... between her ears. She's not fit to be president.

Rebel Without a Clue said...

Stoning would imply Sharia Law Anon 6:34 AM and while it does sound good on the outset, it could be misconstrued as accepting Sharia punishment. I say just send her to prison and not Club Fed even though that is where she would end up.

Anonymous said...

She lied! She knows it! And everyone else knows it! Her first e-mails to family and others mentioned that it was a planned terrorist attack, nothing of a video. Of course, she claims info by the intelligence community changed in the course of time. But their info from the beginning warned of trouble brewing. The British Embassy in the area closed its doors and left. Why didn't Hillary order the same? She was hiding something going on there.