Clinton has perjured herself before the House Committee and likely committed numerous felony acts by mishandling classified information through unsecured email transmissions
This is the admission from Hillary Clinton to Rep. Martha Roby in her testimony to the House Select Committee on Benghazi October 22, 2015. Amid her expert dancing around substantive answers, what emerged was culpability in the lack of action to either secure or extract the embassy team from Benghazi.
Revealed facts include the 600 requests for additional security in less than a year, beginning with the previous ambassador, Gene Cretz, who was afterward posted to Ghana. The newly confirmed ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, had more than 20 urgent requests included in that total (83 from May to September) and, although Secretary of State Clinton acknowledged that she "knew exactly" what was transpiring in Benghazi, she did not allocate resources to the embassage protection. Instead, Clinton delegated the whole issue to "security professionals," evidently in order to wipe her hands of the situation. Plausible deniability is the accepted term among the political class avoiding responsibility.
It was brought forth that, despite the escalating peril of the mission, for some reason Stevens did not have direct access to Clinton and was shoved off on the security professionals while Sidney Blumenthal had unlimited contact with the secretary. During the testimony, Clinton repeatedly noted that the ambassador had protection supplied by five trained individuals, though, in her responses she included in that number three who were added from another agency to perform the duty.
Rep. Mike Pompeo noted that the head of Ansar al Sharia, Mohamed al Zahawi, met with Wissam ben Hamid who was associated with mission security. On the day of the attack, Stevens cabled that ben Hamid (whom another agency identified as affiliated with Al Qaeda in August) had met with the Benghazi mission officials to discuss their security two days previous. Pompeo asked the secretary if she knew that her people had been meeting with an al Qaeda operative discussing security issues, "wittingly or unwittingly."
Her answer? "Since we didn't have ongoing personnel in Benghazi, I don't know to whom you are referring." A wholly unsatisfactory response considering the Benghazi mission was unofficial (and thus unrecognized as requiring a waiver to deny further security) and reliant on Libyan nationals to supply additional security. What Pompeo brought forth was the strong possibility of the attack being engineered from the inside.
But why? Not a single answer was forthcoming from the former Secretary of State who preferred to continue giving credence to the debunked blame placed on an inflammatory video. And this, even after she sent emails to her family and had conversations with the Libyan president and Egyptian prime minister admitting that the attack was an act of terrorism conducted by likely al Qaeda operatives.
Clinton displayed consistent disdain, boredom and arrogance
The only conclusions that can be reached is that either Secretary Clinton was in the dark about occurrences in Benghazi, which could not be the case as she stated that she "knew exactly" what was going on there... or, that she was incompetent in her post... or that she did not care what was transpiring... or that she fully understood not only the danger for her personnel but that she had reason to ignore Stevens' pleas for additional security.
One other choice bit of information that has been uncovered since the hearing is that the ambassador had indeed requested the closure of the mission and to be extracted. Yet Clinton repeatedly testified that she deferred to Stevens' superior understanding of the mission's safety and that he had not requested extraction.
Throughout the whole 11-hour testimony, Clinton displayed consistent disdain, boredom and arrogance with every republican questioner. When fawned over by democrat representatives, the self-satisfied smile was unabated. In truth, despite Representatives Smith and Sanchez apologizing for the grueling grilling by Clinton's obvious enemies (all republicans), they suggested that the former secretary should not be submitted to such draining circumstances.
Should she be elected president, Clinton would need a good deal more stamina when a real crisis occurs than what's necessary to ride out a congressional hearing. Oh, wait, she was serving in one of the most important cabinet offices when she failed to adequately respond to a crisis where her charge, Ambassador Stevens, and three other courageous men were murdered in an intricately engineered attack on an unsecured mission. A mission that Clinton appears to have virtually ignored for a grander scheme, which was possibly to obscure the illegal trafficking of arms through Libya to the "rebels" in Syria. And it has all led to naught but a swamp of Islamic State proliferation from Libya to Syria that is spreading throughout Europe and knocking on America's door in the form of "refugees."
There can be no other conclusion than Clinton has perjured herself before the House Committee and likely committed numerous felony acts by mishandling classified information through unsecured email transmissions. The facts make it clear that Hillary Clinton cannot be trusted to serve in any office of government, let alone that of the Presidency.
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This is the admission from Hillary Clinton to Rep. Martha Roby in her testimony to the House Select Committee on Benghazi October 22, 2015. Amid her expert dancing around substantive answers, what emerged was culpability in the lack of action to either secure or extract the embassy team from Benghazi.
Revealed facts include the 600 requests for additional security in less than a year, beginning with the previous ambassador, Gene Cretz, who was afterward posted to Ghana. The newly confirmed ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, had more than 20 urgent requests included in that total (83 from May to September) and, although Secretary of State Clinton acknowledged that she "knew exactly" what was transpiring in Benghazi, she did not allocate resources to the embassage protection. Instead, Clinton delegated the whole issue to "security professionals," evidently in order to wipe her hands of the situation. Plausible deniability is the accepted term among the political class avoiding responsibility.
