There is much to unpack in these comments by former Secretary of State/Permanent Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton.
Clinton is asked, “If you could change the outcome of any event that occurred while you were secretary of state, what would it be?”
Hillary answers, “Oh, it would certainly be the attack on our facility in Benghazi and the loss of two State Department personnel and two CIA contractors from the terrorist attack, and the terrible consequences to that.”
Clinton’s delivery is flat, without emotion, despite the fact that her department’s repeated rejections of requests to beef up security at the facility — which Clinton does not call a consulate anymore — played a starring role in the disaster.
Clinton does not acknowledge that she or any of her close associates got anything wrong.
Clinton does not acknowledge that she engineered the so-called Accountability Review Board so that she would never be held accountable for what happened in Benghazi.
Clinton does not acknowledge that she, President Obama and Ambassador Susan Rice falsely and with malice aforethought blamed the attack on a YouTube movie and pivoted from that to attack Americans’ basic free speech rights, for the sake of running out the clock and winning an election.
Clinton stood before the bodies of the four slain Americans and lied about why they died. Clinton told their surviving family members that a movie cause their loved ones to die. Clinton could have changed what happened to them, by either granting their requests for more security or by getting them out of Libya when it was obvious that they were in grave danger as the country deteriorated into Islamist influence. Clinton left them there, without enhancing their security, because she and the Democrats wanted to sell the false idea that al Qaeda was “on the run” so they could win an election.
But what difference, at this point, does that make?
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