The Logical Extension is this: Hillary Clinton LIED in testimony.
And she should, at minimum, be fired, impeached or even tried criminally.
From the WashingtonTimes.com:
House Republicans have concluded that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was responsible for cutting security at the consulate in Benghazi ahead of last year’s attack there, and that the administration lied about why it downplayed terrorism as the cause of the assault.
A new report — the result of months of investigation by five different House committees — says there was plenty of intelligence that presaged the attack, but the State Department and President Obama failed to heed the warnings or give the Defense Department the authority to respond to such an attack.
In the most damning finding, House Republicans said Mr. Obama and his team lied about the attacks afterward, first by blaming mob violence spawned by an anti-Muslim video, and then wrongly saying it had misled the public because it was trying to protect an FBI investigation.
“This progress report reveals a fundamental lack of understanding at the highest levels of the State Department as to the dangers presented in Benghazi, Libya, as well as a concerted attempt to insulate the Department of State from blame following the terrorist attacks,” the GOP investigation concluded in its 46-page report.
These are what I would call “facts in evidence.” And yet, what is the bottom line? It is this:
Four Americans are dead:
- J. Christopher Stevens,
U.S. Ambassador to Libya - Sean Smith, U.S. Foreign Service
Information Management Officer - Glen Doherty
- Tyrone S. Woods
And yet Hillary Clinton shrieked back to her critics: “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. If it was because of a protest or if it was because guys out for a walk decided to go kill some Americans. What difference does it make?”
As I wrote here, Secretary Clinton, it makes all the difference in the world. You ignorant — I can’t even write a word, now, appropriately describing your venality, your decadence, your arrogance, your caustic dismissal of four American deaths.
Yet, despite this information being out for two days now, do you see the information splayed across the front pages of newspapers or on the various television channels?
No. They have purposely ignored the report.
The terror attack on a U.S. outpost in Libya was preceded by security cutbacks authorized at the “highest levels” of the State Department, and the Obama administration’s explanation in the immediate aftermath of the fatal assault was altered to protect the agency, House Republicans said in a report on the issue released Tuesday.
The 43-page report is the work of five House committees and concludes that decisions to scale back security at the Benghazi, Libya, outpost went all the way up to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Ladies and gentlemen, you can’t get any more clear or succinct than that. And yet, most American’s haven’t a clue that a damning finger is now officially indicating that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LIED under oath.
And, further damning:
A Republican aide told Fox News that Rice’s script was “altered” to protect the State Department for the inadequate security.
A source told Fox News the leaders of the House committees on Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, Judiciary and Oversight have seen the emails about changing the talking points but are still trying to acquire them.
But the final point:
Clinton, testifying before Congress in the final weeks of her tenure, took responsibility for the department’s missteps and failures leading up to the assault. But she insisted that requests for more security at the diplomatic mission in Benghazi didn’t reach her desk, and reminded lawmakers that they have a responsibility to fund security-related budget requests.
A LIE. An out-and-out bald-faced LIE.
And guess what?
She will skate and Obaka will skate and the Demorats will skate. Because we no longer have a media willing to support the country in which in resides.
We are Rome writ large and moribund.
BZ
What consequences will Hillary face for this?
I don’t think she will suffer any consequences. Some kind of backroom deal was made with Bill Clinton, I suppose. Elitists and statists, one an all. It a vessel of excrement, the odor of which we cannot abide.
She will be running in 2016… That is what she’ll get.. .
This piece is very well written and executed. I found the pdf of the report and downloaded it to save.
I still ask the question: why do we, the people, allow the Democrats to operate under a different set of rules than the Republicans? If the Secretary of State was Republican, who specifically doesn’t matter, a call for gallows would be shrieked from atop the Capitol Bldg.
For a great part, because the American Media Maggots don’t just tolerate abuse at the hands of Leftists but call for it.
The press is totally, thoroughly corrupt in the US and cannot be trusted. It is no wonder their newspapers are dwindling. Who trusts them?
BZ
Yep, they’ll ALL walk, and suffer NO penalty… And the families will never know closure! It’s the Dems way…
Thew problem is half of the USA is on FOOD STAMPS, and therefore will NOT bite the hand that feeds them. Period.
Get rid of this and maybe the populace will respond sensibly.
Till then, this horde of leeches will control politics.
And that, sir, is a HUGE problem. The parasites have discovered they can VOTE themselves more Free Cheese.
BZ
It was obvious from the beginning that that Benghazi was a huge cover-up and Obama still got elected. Odds are not bad at all that Hillary will be the next POTUS and I blame the people who vote (also those who don’t vote) in this country. We should have already come to the point where the people see through the media bias and have more morality than just taking their “free cheese”.
The problem is reality: the demographics tell it all.
When the number of parasites outnumber the hosts, there is doom.
Simple as that.
BZ
My solution is illegal, therefore only the left will find it acceptable. Yet, if one on the right enacts the solution, it will be treated with more vitriol and press that the entire Benghazi clusterfuq. If one on the left executes the solution, it will be swept under the rug AND blamed on the right.
And that is, as BZ is wont to point out, the crux of the issue. The DEM and the Dems are so intertwined you cannot tell where one ends and another begins.
Cary, the American Media Maggots will readily carry ANY Leftist water any distance, under any circumstances, for any reason.
BZ
Where’s the kindling? Is “The O” tuning a violin? Yup, Georges Santayna was right, and we get stuck repeating Rome.
Can I please play the part of the Visigoths this time? I am tired of playing the Romans and losing.
No kidding. You, as an American Taxpayer, have been sacked so many times you think you’re made of burlap.
BZ
Think of a tree completely full of mistletoe.
No leaves.
Welcome to the USA.