Clinton Emails: The Benghazi Lie Continues to Unravel

 

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Corruption: The White House must cringe every time a new batch of Hillary Clinton emails is released. The Clinton campaign surely reacts the same way. The emails continue to show a pattern of deception.

Judicial Watch is performing a priceless public service by tenaciously hounding the government to open its records related to the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. The public deserves to know what the Obama administration and the Democrats' likely 2016 presidential nominee so desperately want to hide.

Judicial Watch released a new parcel of documents Monday, and they confirm both what's known and what's been suspected about the day and those that followed.

History recorded that the White House's United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice appeared a few days after the terrorist incident on a number of Sunday television news shows saying that attack, which killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was provoked by an Internet video.

It was just a few Islamic hotheads, she suggested, who took a protest over the video too far. We were assured the violence was in no way connected to President Obama's Libya policy.

Judicial Watch, however, has been combing through the emails and finds they tell a different story.

They indicate a cover-up occurred. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the documents that keep piling up "show the Obama White House was behind the big lie, first promoted by Hillary Clinton, that an Internet video caused the Benghazi terrorist attack."

"Top White House aide Ben Rhodes, Hillary Clinton, and many key Obama officials pushed others to tie the Internet video to the attacks," he said.

"It is little wonder that Mrs. Clinton and the entire Obama administration have fought so hard to keep these documents from the American people. All evidence now points to Hillary Clinton, with the approval of the White House, as being the source of the Internet video lie."

It was a lie that bloomed into a conspiracy. The new documents released to Judicial Watch show "the Obama administration engaged domestic and foreign Islamist groups and foreign nationals to push the Internet video narrative."

It appears the White House even successfully recruited the Turkish government, or at least Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, to help spread the lie.

Another email, says Judicial Watch, "evidently from the Office of the Secretary of Defense" and sent to National Security Council spokesperson Bernadette Meehan and other top White House officials, "shows that the administration took no action to deploy military assets almost five hours after the attack began."

This corroborates early and continued speculation that the men were left on their own to die.

Why would the administration want to spin this tragic incident in such a way? Why did it want to, in the words of White House operative Rhodes, "underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video"?

Because, as Rhodes said, it did not want to admit the attack was part of "broader failure of policy."

The administration knew the Benghazi attack was a terrorist act, but it couldn't dare admit it because that would call into question the Obama policy and expose as a lie the president's claim that Libya was a success.

As bad as it is for the administration and Clinton, though, it soon might get worse. The State Department has announced it will post online 3,000 pages of Clinton emails Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern time. (Yes, that's right, early enough to meet a court-imposed midnight deadline, yet late enough to go virtually unnoticed.)

What difference will they make? They could swing a presidential election, just as the lies did in 2012.