Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in her book that when she heard that Ambassador Chris Stevens had been murdered in Benghazi, her heart immediately went out to the family.
The emails we’ve FINALLY gotten to see show a very different version of this “heart” Hillary claims to have.
Her first and foremost concern was for when the State Dept would break the news.
Plus, she got Ambassador Stevens’ last name wrong.
Hillary Clinton has claimed she did not discuss classified information on her private, unsecured, non-government email accounts.
May 22, 2015 – The State Department says she definitely discussed Benghazi on these unsecured accounts and that at least one of the e-mail contained classified information.
Clinton is rationalizing that AT THE TIME, that information was not (yet) classified.
Uhhhhh, yeah, EXCEPT it’s normal for sensitive information to only be classified down the road a piece.
PLUS, all government officials know that sensitive information must neither be discussed on non-government email systems nor disclosed publicly until such time as it is deemed NOT sensitive.
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that on February 11, 2015, it uncovered documents from the U.S. Department of State revealing that top aides for then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, including her then-chief of staff Cheryl Mills, knew from the outset that the Benghazi mission compound was under attack by armed assailants tied to a terrorist group. The documents were produced as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State ((No. 1:14-cv-01511). The documents make no reference to a spontaneous demonstration or Internet video, except in an official statement issued by Hillary Clinton.
September 17, 2014: The House Select Committee on Benghazi opened its hearings with Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy [R-SC] vowing to pursue the facts wherever they lead. This brief bit of testimony by Todd Keilis very, very telling.
Sept 17, 2014: Todd Kiel at House Benghazi Committee Hearing [:53]
After the bombings of embassies in 1998, new regulations were created for high-risk diplomatic posts like the one in Benghazi. Facilities are assigned specific designations which then dictate which level of security is to apply. Responsibility for implementing security regulations belongs to the Undersecretary for Management, a post that is currently held by a career diplomat named Patrick F. Kennedy (no relation to the political clan).
Security practices expert Todd Keil said during his testimony to the House Benghazi Committee last Wednesday that, prior to the assault, Undersecretary Kennedy changed the security designation for the Benghazi facility to “Special Mission Compound.” This designation is unique to the Benghazi consulate. IOW, it’s made up. As such, there are no regulations dictating what security Kennedy was required to maintain there.
I am firmly convinced that the real plan in Benghaziwas to set the stage for the 2012 version of the sadly expectable “October Surprise” Democrats seem to plan for every election. I believe that the security at the Benghazi compound was purposely denuded as part of an agreement between Obamacrats and Muslim terrorists to invade the unprotected consulate and kidnap Ambassador Stevens.
I think Obama’s negotiations were then supposed to dominate October headlines and result in the release of high-level Muslim leaders from GITMO and a landslide victory for Barack “I Saved the Ambassador” Obama on Election Day.
What other scenario could possibly explain a high-risk consulate that was BEGGING for MORE security having their existing security REDUCED from 30 to 9 in the last few weeks immediately prior to the assault? What other scenario could possibly explain why the nearby Americans with guns were told THREE TIMES to sit on their hands while our consulate was under armed assault?!
While Undersecretary Kennedy seems to have been complicit in this putrid scheme, I am inclined to believe that SecState Clinton either blackmailed or threatened him and that he caved only because he was assured that the consulate staff would come to no harm. Why do I think this? Because he is not a party hack. He is a long-time career diplomat who has worked in the Middle East and was very likely acquainted with, if not actually old friends with Ambassador Stevens and other Americans working in Benghazi.
So let’s suppose that Undersecretary Kennedy has decided to do the dirty. He’s still a career diplomat who actually follows the rules. (In 2008, he barred his staff from attending Obama campaign rallies.) And he’s a long-time government employee who knows that, if the poo hits the fan, he’d be the most likely scapegoat. The made up designation is exactly the kind of bread crumb that an expert like Todd Keil would notice. Maybe Kennedy hoped it would give him some credibility should he need to convince the PTBsthat he was not a willing participant.
Asked whether he had ever lied to the media, Jay Carney stated, “The answer is no.” That, of course, was a lie. Here are just a few of Carney’s biggest lies:
In April, an email from deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes dated September 14, 2012, emerged in which Rhodes explicitly stated that then-UN ambassador Susan Rice should say the “protests are rooted in an Internet video.” Carney said the email was not about Benghazi.
In mid-May 2014, the American Legion called the resignation of top VA health official Dr. Robert Petzel “a continuation of business as usual [because] Dr. Petzel was already scheduled to retire this year.” Carney said the American Legion had praised VA for making Petzel retire.
As late as October of 2013, Carney stated (again), “The fact of the matter is, if you had insurance on the individual market prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, and you have that plan today, you can keep it, you’re grandfathered in forever. No matter how crummy the plan is.” After Politifact named this the 2013 Lie of the Year, Carney said no one had ever seriously made that claim.
NOTE: This is a good analysis of the timeline of the attack and the cover-up. CAVEAT: So far as I have been able to discern, the photo he used of “Ambassador Stevens being dragged through the streets” is not Ambassador Stevens. I posted this information in the comments at the video.
Americans killed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, attack on May 12, 2003: Nine American defense contractors killed.
UNLIKE BENGHAZI: Prior to the attack, the State Department issued numerous warnings of a potential attack. Afterwards, Bush immediately condemned it as a terrorist attack. And the attackers were all killed.
Americans killed in Karachi, Pakistan, attack on March 2, 2006:One American diplomat killed instantly.
UNLIKE BENGHAZI: It was all over with one bang. There was no 8-hour-long siege featuring a U.S. President and his Secretary of State who could not be located. Also, it was not in a recent war zone where an approaching 9/11 anniversary made it a prime target. The embassy had not requested extra security or, having asked for more security, had existing security removed. Nearby service personnel were not told to sit on their thumbs while Americans were under siege. And no one lied or said it was anything other than what it was … a terrorist attack. And the attacker (suicide bomber) was killed instantly.
Americans killed during Benghazi, Libya attack on September 11, 2010: Our Ambassador, a staff member and two soldiers who defied orders to stand down.
WHY BENGHAZI MATTERS:
Prior to the attack, the ambassador begged for additional security due to increased threats and one actual attack on the compound that might have been a practice run for breaching the wall.
The State Department removed rather than added security.
During the attack, nearby armed Americans were repeatedly ordered to stand down.
For weeks afterwards, Obama and his staff blamed the attack on a protest over a YouTube video.
When evidence proved they had known from the start it was a terrorist attack, Obama claimed he’d always said so, which was a blatant and glaring lie.
When asked under oath by a Congressional Committee what she knew and when she knew it, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton screeched, “What difference does it make?!” This is the same Hillary Clinton who got fired from the Watergate investigation for exceeding the law in her efforts to get Nixon impeached for lying to Americans about what he knew and when he knew it.
The White House switched to “It was a long time ago” and “It’s a fake scandal” and “Republicans only care about Benghazi because RAACISM.”
Left-wing apologists created a deceptive list of other embassy attacks that allegedly “proved” Republican hypocrisy.
The attackers have not only never been capture, so far as the public knows, our people aren’t even looking for them.
No Americans were killed in these attacks under Bush (listed alphabetically by country): Greece (Athens) 2007 (Jan 12); India (Calcutta) 2002 (Jan 22); Indonesia (Denpasar) 2002 (Oct 12); Pakistan (Karachi) 2002 (June 14); Pakistan (Karachi) 2003 (Feb 28); Saudi Arabia (Jeddah) 2004 (Dec 6); Syria (Damascus) 2006 (Sept 12); Turkey (Istanbul) 2008 (July 9); Uzbekistan (Tashkent) 2004 (June 30); Yemen (Sana’a) 2008 (Mar 28, Sept 28; 2d attack: One American fatality was reported by news but this was an error). No Americans were killed in these attacks under Obama (listed alphabetically by country): Afghanistan (Herat) 2013 (Sept 13); Egypt (Cairo) 2012 (Sept 11); Pakistan (Peshawar) 2010 (Apr 5); Turkey (Ankara) 2013 (Feb 1); Tunisia (Tunis) 2012 (Sept 14); Yemen (Sana’a) 2012 (Sept 14).