On September 13, 2012, — one and a half days before
Obama aide Ben Rhodes sent an email advising UN Ambassador Susan Rice
to blame the Benghazi attacks on a protest over an anti-Muslim Internet
video — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the identical language
embedded in a statement about the attacks.
The congruence of the two word-for-word statements suggests, at the
very least, a close coordination between and White House and Hillary
Clinton to deceive the American people about the true nature of the
attack in Benghazi. And it may also be evidence that Hillary Clinton
engineered that decision immediately following the attacks. Was the
cover-up Hillary’s idea? The emails beg the question. Now Congress must
investigate and decide what the answer is.
Based on newly released emails, we know that Hillary Clinton was
informed sometime before 9:45 on September 12, 2012 that the Benghazi
attack was made by terrorists, not spontaneous protestors. Despite this
information, she continued to publicly contradict that assessment and
instead blamed the murder of the four Americans, including Ambassador
Chris Stevens on a phantom protest
Why would she do that? In order to deflect criticism away from the
State Department’s inadequate security in Benghazi and to help the
President perpetuate the myth that he had Al-Qaeda “on the run” as part
of his election propaganda.
Look at the two statements:
Here is what Hillary said in her statement on the morning of September 13th about the attacks:
“…Let me state very clearly… that the United States Government had
absolutely nothing to do with this video. We absolutely reject its
content and message…This video is disgusting and reprehensible…There is
no justification, none at all, for responding to this video with
violence.”
Her language found its identical echo in the email sent by Rhodes
36 hours later on the afternoon of September 14th. Rhodes wrote:
“We’ve made our views on the video crystal clear. The United States
Government had nothing to do with it. We reject its message and its
content. We find it disgusting and reprehensible. But there is no
justification at all for responding to this movie with violence.”
The language is virtually identical. Here it is line by line:
Hillary: “Let me state very clearly that the United States Government had absolutely nothing to do with this video.”
Rhodes: “We’ve made our views on the video crystal clear. The United States Government had nothing to do with it.”
Hillary: “We absolutely reject its content and message.”
Rhodes: “We reject its message and its content.”
Hillary: “The film is disgusting and reprehensible.”
Rhodes: “We find it disgusting and reprehensible.”
Hillary: “The film is no justification, none at all, for responding to this video with violence.”
Rhodes: “But there is no justification at all for responding to this movie with violence.”
From the moment of the attack, Hillary was the first government
official to link it to the Internet video. She continued citing the
unrelated video for several weeks — long after the State Department knew
otherwise.
In a statement issued at about the time she spoke to President
Obama at 10 PM on September 11th, while the attacks were still going on,
she blamed them on the video:
“Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to
inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States
deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of
others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very
beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any
justification for violent acts of this kind.”
So, from the outset, it may have been Hillary who injected the idea
that the video caused the attack. Then, it appears, that it was her
language that Rhodes copied in instructing Susan Rice on how to handle
the issue during her appearances on all the Sunday talk shows.
But Hillary knew that was not the case. Because at 9:45 on the
morning immediately after the attack, Assistant Secretary of State Beth
Jones sent an email to Hillary Clinton reporting on a conversation she
had with the Libyan Ambassador in which she told him that terrorists
were responsible for the attack. There was no mention of any protest,
demonstration, or video.
According to former CBS News correspondent Sheryl Atkinson, the email is labeled “Libya update from Beth Jones” [and says]:
“When [the Libyan Ambassador said his government suspected that
former Qaddafi regime elements carried out the attacks, I told him the
group that conducted the attacks -- Ansar al-Sharia -- is affiliated
with Islamic extremists."
Later, Hillary's State Department requested that the talking points
to the Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Sharia be deleted as well
references to CIA warnings about terrorist threats in Benghazi in the
months preceding the attack."
Nuland warned, in an e mail that describing Benghazi as a terrorist
attack and alluding to the previous warnings the State Department had
gotten from the CIA about the imminence of such attacks: "could be
abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not
paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either?
Concerned …”
When Nuland was dissatisfied with the deletions made in the talking
points, she protested: “These changes don’t resolve all of my issues or
those of my buildings leadership,” a likely reference to Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton.
So the decision to blame the video may have not originated in the
bowels of the State Department or in the White House, but it may have
stemmed directly from the Secretary of State herself. Hillary Rodham
Clinton.
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