Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has joined other former members of the Obama team in criticizing the president’s Middle East policy and his handling of the Benghazi attack.
In an interview with Bill O’Reilly this week, Panetta said he always thought the assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, was a terrorist attack and told the president this as soon as reports came into the Pentagon.
And yet, the president, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice proceeded to blame a sophomoric anti-Muslim video in their public statements and televised appearances.
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