The New Yorker’s Robin Wright spoke this week with Dr. Anne Stevens, Ambassador Chris Stevens’ sister, about whom she holds responsible for the terrorism that claimed his life.
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On Sept. 11, 2012, Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith, a State Department information officer, were killed in an attack on the main us diplomatic compound in Benghazi by a mob of militia fighters who had been incited by an American-made video deriding the Prophet Muhammad.
There was also internal discord, which led to a former investigator for the committee, Bradley F. Podliska, a major in the Air Force Reserve, filing a lawsuit alleging that he was sacked for trying to conduct a thorough investigation into the attacks while superiors wanted to focus on the private email server. Mrs. Clinton referred to the video a couple of times in her public statements. And a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed Trump leading Clinton in a few issue areas, including terrorism and homeland security, which respondents said that he would handle better by a margin of 44%-39%.
Along with the State Department and the military, the CIA missed the looming threat despite warnings and wrote faulty intelligence reports after the attack, according to the report. Her GOP adversary Donald Trump was assessed as honest and straightforward by 41 percent in the survey, while 25 percent viewed Clinton that way. It did update the general belief among Republicans (and other Clinton-bashers) that the former secretary of state will be indicted any day now, an article of faith which has survived some 8,000 days since Bill Clinton was sworn into office in 1993. But the House report released Monday about that night and its aftermath contains details that ought to concern Americans who care about political accountability.We learn from the report that the day after Mr. Stevens became the first American ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979, President Obama chose to skip his daily intelligence briefing. In a phone call with the Egyptian Prime Minister, she said the Benghazi attack “had nothing to do with the film”. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t.
Hillary Clinton has responded by saying “it’s time to move on”.
Rather than offering a straight answer, Gowdy said that he doesn’t own any bumper stickers or t-shirts with the slogan and that reporters should really read the new report for themselves to find the answer.
“I believe what you say actually matters”. USA TODAY’s Paul Singer says the investigation produced little more than talking points for both sides. “So I do think before I speak”.
In his speech, Trump said Clinton “spread death, destruction and terrorism everywhere she touched”.
The NRA ad also hits as House Republicans on Tuesday released the results of their two-year investigation of the attack in Libya.
The most recent, by the Select Committee on Benghazi, discovered in the course of its review that Clinton had used a private email server to conduct official business while running the State Department.
And it questions whether justice ever was served for the attacks, saying only one man – Ahmed Abu Khatallah – has been indicted and brought to the U.S.to face charges in the attacks despite nearly four years passing.
Despite strong criticism of the American administration, the report contains no shots at Hillary Clinton, who was a State Secretary at the time.
We also found out that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and all politicians everywhere try to present the best possible version of events to the public. She’s never come up with a sufficient explanation of why she did this in the first place (saying that Colin Powell and Condi Rice has done it some extent just isn’t good enough a response).
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US intelligence received no advance warning of attacks.
