"We?ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We?ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with.?
Those words, depraved words, were spoken by then?secretary of state Hillary Clinton, with President Obama by her side, on September 14, 2012. This was at Joint Base Andrews, during the most sacred of rites: the return of the remains of Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, and Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, all slain in the line of duty in Benghazi. And all slain, it must never be forgotten, by jihadists carrying out what Clinton, Obama, and high-ranking national-security officials throughout the United States government knew full well was a planned terrorist attack, not a ?protest? run amok and incited by ?an awful Internet video.?
That obvious fact is now explicit after Mrs. Clinton?s galling testimony on Thursday before the House select committee investigating the Benghazi massacre. Not only had the siege occurred on the eleventh anniversary of al-Qaeda?s 9/11 atrocities. Not only was Obama informed in the first minutes that a terrorist attack was underway. Not only had terrorist attacks in Benghazi been threatened and executed for months. Not only were mortars deployed by trained jihadists. Not only had Gregory Hicks, the senior State Department official on the ground in Libya after Ambassador Stevens was killed, directly briefed then-secretary Clinton about the then-ongoing terrorist attack ? the same Gregory Hicks who would later testify that the anti-Muslim Internet video was a ?non-event? in Benghazi.
What Hillary Knew Besides all that, we now know that, while the siege ensued, Clinton emailed daughter Chelsea to explain that Americans had been killed in Benghazi by ?an al Qaeda-like group.? This was about an hour before Clinton and Obama consulted by phone, immediately after which the State Department published Clinton?s mendacious ?blame the video? announcement: Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation.
Yes, Clinton and Obama knew it was a terrorist attack but tried to con the country into believing it was a spontaneous response to a video. A State Department memo documents that on the very next day after her duplicitous public statement, Clinton informed Egypt?s prime minister: ?We know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. . . . It was a planned attack ? not a protest.?
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Those words, depraved words, were spoken by then?secretary of state Hillary Clinton, with President Obama by her side, on September 14, 2012. This was at Joint Base Andrews, during the most sacred of rites: the return of the remains of Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, and Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, all slain in the line of duty in Benghazi. And all slain, it must never be forgotten, by jihadists carrying out what Clinton, Obama, and high-ranking national-security officials throughout the United States government knew full well was a planned terrorist attack, not a ?protest? run amok and incited by ?an awful Internet video.?
That obvious fact is now explicit after Mrs. Clinton?s galling testimony on Thursday before the House select committee investigating the Benghazi massacre. Not only had the siege occurred on the eleventh anniversary of al-Qaeda?s 9/11 atrocities. Not only was Obama informed in the first minutes that a terrorist attack was underway. Not only had terrorist attacks in Benghazi been threatened and executed for months. Not only were mortars deployed by trained jihadists. Not only had Gregory Hicks, the senior State Department official on the ground in Libya after Ambassador Stevens was killed, directly briefed then-secretary Clinton about the then-ongoing terrorist attack ? the same Gregory Hicks who would later testify that the anti-Muslim Internet video was a ?non-event? in Benghazi.
What Hillary Knew Besides all that, we now know that, while the siege ensued, Clinton emailed daughter Chelsea to explain that Americans had been killed in Benghazi by ?an al Qaeda-like group.? This was about an hour before Clinton and Obama consulted by phone, immediately after which the State Department published Clinton?s mendacious ?blame the video? announcement: Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation.
Yes, Clinton and Obama knew it was a terrorist attack but tried to con the country into believing it was a spontaneous response to a video. A State Department memo documents that on the very next day after her duplicitous public statement, Clinton informed Egypt?s prime minister: ?We know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. . . . It was a planned attack ? not a protest.?
Read more at: Hillary Clinton, Benghazi Liar | National Review Online
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