Thread: Hillary Sends Her Regrets On Benghazi- Benghazi was preventable. So is her presidency

Hillary Clinton Sends Her Regrets On Benghazi

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Posted 01/28/2014 06:49 PM ET

Benghazi: Hillary Clinton regrets Americans died in what a Senate panel said was a preventable terrorist attack that she downplayed. While the committee didn't acknowledge her role, it can be called criminal negligence.
What difference at this point do the regrets of former Secretary of State Clinton make, as expressed in an interview Monday during the National Automobile Dealers Association conference in New Orleans?
Not much, particularly to Charles Woods and Patricia Smith, parents of Ty Woods and Sean Smith, respectively, two of the four Americans murdered by al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists in an attack Clinton blamed on a video.
Clinton expressed no regrets for repeating the video lie to Woods in front of his son's casket as it arrived at Dover Air Force Base:
"Her countenance was not good, and she made this statement to me . .. she said we will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted," he told radio host Glenn Beck, adding that he "could tell that she was not telling me the truth."
As we have pointed out, phony scandals don't produce body bags. Smith testified before the House Oversight Committee about how President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Clinton, among other top administration officials, approached her at the casket ceremony when her son's body was returned.
"Every one of them came up to me, gave me a big hug, and I asked them, 'What happened, please tell me?' And every one of them said it was the video. And we all know that it wasn't the video. Even at that time they knew it wasn't the video. So they all lied to me."
"Oh, sure," Clinton replied when asked if there were any "do-overs" she'd undertake if given the chance. "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."
Yet Benghazi was perfectly predictable — and preventable. The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee released a report this month faulting Clinton's department for failing to anticipate the attacks despite repeated warnings.
One of those warnings came from Ambassador Chris Stevens, who also died in the attack. On Aug. 8, 2012, he signed a two-page cable that he titled "The Guns of August: Security in Eastern Libya." In it, he noted that a dangerous "security vacuum" had developed in and around Benghazi. The signs were an attempted assassination of the British ambassador, two previous attacks on the consulate itself, and attacks on the Red Cross.
An Aug. 16 cable addressed to the secretary of state reported that the State Department's senior security officer "expressed concerns with the ability to defend Post in the event of a coordinated attack due to limited manpower, security measures, weapons capabilities, host nation support and the overall size of the compound."
The cable also mentioned the consulate's Emergency Action Committee discussing "the location of approximately 10 Islamist militias and AQ training camps within Benghazi ... these groups ran the spectrum from Islamist militias, such as the QRF Brigade and Ansar al-Sharia, to 'Takfirist thugs.'"
Clinton's "imperfection information" comment is another Benghazi lie and her "unforeseen consequences" were perfectly foreseeable. She did nothing before the attack because it would destroy the administration narrative about final victory in the War on Terror, then lied about the video afterward for the same reason.
Newly declassified transcripts show top defense officials who briefed Obama on the day of the Benghazi raid describing it as a terrorist attack and telling the president so. Clinton had to know that as well, yet she's been complicit in a lie agreed upon.

The Senate Intelligence Committee said Benghazi was preventable. So is her presidency.

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