Why was the right wing so up in arms over the Benghazi attack?

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  1. modernpaladin

    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Or logic. Burning such an asset sends an unproductive message to other assets, unless said asset had turned into a liability.
     
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    House Benghazi report faults military response, not Clinton, for deaths

    House Republicans investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, have found no new evidence to conclude that Hillary Clinton, secretary of state at the time, was culpable in the deaths of four Americans, according to the committee’s final report released on Tuesday.

    The 800-page document released by the Republicans on the House select committee on Benghazi brought to a close a fiercely partisan, two-year, $7m investigation that included interviews with more than 80 witnesses. The report reveals new details about the night of the attack and concludes that the Obama administration failed to recognize the possibility of it happening.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/28/house-benghazi-report-clinton-attack-military

    As I said earlier, Clinton was the presumptive Dem nominee for prez so of course the Repubs keep pounding away.

    A top House Republican was accidentally honest about the Benghazi investigation
    https://www.vox.com/2015/9/30/9423339/kevin-mccarthy-benghazi
     
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    TOG 6 Well-Known Member

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    Hillary sighed, people died.
     
  4. TomFitz

    TomFitz Well-Known Member

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    I was going to respond, but I decided it was not worth it.

    You made my point.
     
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    Starting in March 2012 requests for additional security were sent to the State Dept and apparently ignored. In early August the State Dept astoundingly REMOVED Security teams from Benghazi despite the repeated requests for more. During the Benghazi hearings Hillary Clinton blurted out "What difference does it make". If she was referring to 4 Americans being dead, including the first American Ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979, in that narrow scope she was correct we can't bring them back to life. The real problem is the breakdown in leadership to such an extent, our people in Benghazi were asking for more security and got LESS security and died because of it. While we can bring back those 4 men, we can make sure that something like this never, ever happens again.
     
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    Pred Well-Known Member

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    Everyday? Really? Or are you watching the same clips or over and over again and you don’t even know when any of it happened.

    Democrats lie about it every day as well except in the the extreme direction. It’s NOT a lie that different people are more or less susceptible but Democrats aren’t making that clear. They’re making stupid people think everyone is equally in danger. They’re NOT.
     
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    I believe he was referring to the fact that the right wing were looking for reasons to blame the entire attack even the planning of the attack on Obama and Clinton.

    There were over 50 attacks that were worse than Benghazi killing more Americans under George w bush and the GOP said nothing about them because it wasn't a black man who's sitting in the white house when it happened
     
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    Unsupportable nonsense.
     

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