Hillary: I'm Not Lying, So the Benghazi Families Must Be
By Guy Benson
TownHall.com
According to four separate family members of the Americans slain in the September 11, 2012 terrorist assault on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton privately blamed the attack on an online anti-Islam video. She did so days after she knew, according to her own words, that the deadly raid "had nothing to with the film. It was a planned attack -- not a protest." The Benghazi families' memories are consistent and specific, with one account of the interaction having been recorded in a journal at the time:
Asked point blank whether these accounts are true
last month, Hillary
said "no,"without
a substantive follow-up. She doubled
down when
pressed further in New Hampshire over the holidays:
Hillary Clinton, a confirmed
liar who's deeply
distrusted by
voters, claims that all four of these grieving
relatives aren't telling the truth about what she
said to them on September 14 -- back when the White
House was still
peddling the
video myth in public. Indeed, Hillary included a heated reference to
the film in her speech at the casket ceremony that
day, in the context of discussing the
broader upheaval across the region. Somebody is lying.
Hillary asserts that it isn't her, leaving only
one, highly implausible option. She tries to soften
her clear implication that Tyrone Woods' father, Sam
Smith's mother and uncle, and Glen Doherty's sister
are liars by suggesting that perhaps they were just
too "emotionally distraught" to summon accurate
recollections. This is insulting. Of course they
were very upset, but the idea that they all
misunderstood her in the same exact way -- and that
one of them took inaccurate contemporaneous notes
about the interaction -- is ludicrous. The little
nugget that some of them didn't know that their
murdered relatives had been working on behalf of the
CIA is pure, cynical misdirection; that information
was classified at the time, and had zero bearing on
whether they may have been confused about what she
told them face-to-face at a private meeting.
Lastly, Clinton's line that all of her information
at the time came from the intelligence community is
also flat-out wrong. The former acting director of
the CIA has
testified under oath that
the US intelligence community never tied
the Benghazi attacks to the Internet video. And
former CIA director David
Petraeus has stated that
the US government ascertained that the Benghazi
massacre was a coordinated act of terrorism "almost
immediately." State Department documentsand Hillary's
own virtual paper trail affirm this. The Secretary
of State understood the truth, with clarity. She
shared it with her own daughter and with foreign
diplomats, while serving up a fiction to the
American people, including heartbroken family
members of the deceased. I'll leave you with word
of another Benghazi document
dump that
you may have missed on New Year's Eve:
Benghazi Committee:
Staff is currently reviewing nearly 2,500 new
pages of documents received from the State Dept this
morning, including Patrick Kennedy's emails.
12:15 PM - 31 Dec 2015
Remember, this tranche of emails was only released due to a court order, along with thousands of additional documents Hillary Clinton's State Department never turned over to other Congressional committees that probed the terrorist attack. The Obama administration claimed that all relevant information had been provided years ago, and Democrats have assailed the current investigation as redundant and partisan -- yet the Benghazi Select Committee is just now receiving these emails from Patrick Kennedy, a high-ranking Clinton subordinate at the center of this and several other controversies. In fact, State officials are saying that are so many previously-unreleased, relevant documents in need of review that they were unable to fully comply with the federal judge's orders on time.