In a conversation with Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil, detailed in an email on September 12, 2012, Clinton said based on information she had then, she believed the group that claimed responsibility for the attacks was affiliated with al-Qaeda. Surely you don’t believe it had anything to do with the election being 56 days away and that President Obama was boasting that al-Qaida was on the run. The killing of an American ambassador by the group was a political embarrassment. “I have no idea whether that would take place or not, but anybody who says they don’t want to visit the White House and spend the night is probably not telling the truth”.
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Steel and Libutti continue to socialize with Clinton administration veterans. And yes, it’s possible for political reasons that the Obama administration wanted the attacks to be spontaneous rather than a planned terrorist attack in order to appear more competent, but none of that means that Clinton acted negligently or should be criminally responsible for the deaths of four Americans.
She also promised the families of the victims she and the administration would bring the perpetrators to justice, which they never did.
Emails obtained by Judicial Watch earlier this year indicate the White House and the State Department coordinated their public messaging on Benghazi and solicited statements from friendly public officials that corroborated the YouTube explanation.
Clinton forwarded Affleck’s note to Johnnie Carson, her assistant secretary of state for African affairs, writing, “I’d like to respond to Ben Affleck”.
How could she not know about the deep security concerns from an embassy in such an actively risky setting?
Her glib response was that ambassadors to risky countries know what they are getting into. Should this level of managerial incompetence be allowed in the presidency? Hillary Clinton is a liar.
A new wave of Clinton’s emails has just been released. Ditto Hillary’s decades of mendacity, from cattle futures to “there is no classified material” on the clandestine e-mail server that she willfully hid from scrutiny for seven years.
He also had to explain to Clinton that her email client also didn’t automatically convert punctuation into emoji.
“Republicans are trying to suggest the only solution to the VA’s problems is to privatize it, but Hillary Clinton will not apologize for insisting on doing the hard work to reform the VA, rather than ending it altogether”. “And I just see him smiling as he’s typing this”.
In all, the polling amounts to a 9-point swing in opinion about Clinton’s controversial email practices from before and after her October 22 appearance before the Benghazi committee. This is the same message she relayed to the president of Libya.
“On this new berry can I get smiley faces?” she asked.
That Joe Biden withdrew from this campaign made this a bad time for Democrats.
Echoing Hillary’s lie du jour, Obama chimed in with his own lie that day: “Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths”, he declared in the Rose Garden.
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Jay Fleitman, M.D., lives in Northampton. His column appears the first Tuesday of the month.
