For Europeans the real story regarding Hillary as SoS is not about a private server or emails.

[snagglepuss]

snip

"...the real story is how the State Department under Hillary Clinton was fully in the loop of the CIA running a rat line of smuggled weapons through Benghazi (so conveniently close to the US consulate), out of Libya and across Turkey straight to “moderate rebels” of the al-Qaeda-linked jihadi variety operating in to-be-regime-changed Syria. This, the real story, complete with bold elements of war crime, destruction of international law and flagrant abuse of power, has simply vanished. Just like those Hillary Clinton emails the State Department is “unable to locate”.



http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/12/hillary-clinton-the-conveniently-negligent-queen/

[tonyt53]

1. On an email list from the RNC, I see.

[snagglepuss]

2. What you smokin?

[Yurovsky]

7. The HRC paid trolls are posting as fast as they can...

Trying to look legit...

[QC]

17. Given the poor language skills and minimal knowedge

of U.S. politics, I'm wondering if she outsourced the operation to her friends at Tata.

[Fawke Em]

3. I've heard Counter Punch called many things.

But right-wing isn't one of them.

[truedelphi]

14. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^n/t

[Raster]

6. How dismissive. I've been to the Counterpunch site. I do not see the RNC bias.

I do, however, see several articles and postings calling bullshit on the Clinton smarm. Kill the messenger, perhaps?

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Even if this were true, was Hillary in charge of the CIA?

[Yurovsky]

8. Nice try but it's still on her...

I guarantee you that she knew exactly what was going on. Or is she clueless only when being in the know might land her in prison? That sure seems to be her typical excuse...

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. How about "the fog of war" argument?

....I didn't think so.

You guys are tougher than the Fox news round table.

[truedelphi]

13. "I am Hillary Clinton, and I approved this message."

"So vote for me in November because I am the candidate who has experience, unless you mean about the times that my State Department screwed up, or when my close friends who I got approved of as superdelegates screwed up, or when money laundering at the CLinton Foundation involved something to do with State Deparment matters, and then, well, believe me, I knew [h2]nuttin!"[h2]

[Jitter65]

24. How so? The male misogynists running the CIA kept her out of the loop on many things.

She has been fighting this inside battles all her career. If they keep Obama out of the loop just imagine how much they kept from Hillary.

[tk2kewl]

15. seems she's never in charge of anything when it goes south

thats the reply i consistently get on Libya from you guys too, even though she twisted Obama's arm and he later regretted it

[The_Casual_Observer]

18. Libya was/is a real mess. Hillary should have tried to put a stop to it.

Even I knew what was going to happen there. Has her thinking on this ever been explained?

[IdaBriggs]

19. Bill got $500k from the Foreign Minister two days after Benghazi

while Blumenthal was looking to profit from "business opportunities" (not kidding) there.

Follow the cash straight to the Clinton Foundation....

[The_Casual_Observer]

20. That is very sad news. Libya has turned out very badly.

I protested this on DU in the day, but was shouted down.

[snagglepuss]

21. I knew about Blumenthal's vested interests but not about Bill's payout.

Was this reportedly widely?

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Good God

Sandersism spinning off into the twilight.

[truedelphi]

11. If the Benghazi situation was "out of the loop" and a clandestine

Operation, then that explains why the AFB in Italy would not come to their aid when their pilots were requested to help!

Nothing else explains it. It certainly is not an impossible flight situation - Syria is just a hop and skip away from Italy via jet plane.

[pdsimdars]

12. the more you know . . . . . . . .

the more infuriated you get.

[Samantha]

22. I have read about this shipment of arms through Benghazi for Syrian rebels

and found it shocking. There was much more detail in what I read than what is reported here. I think it (the email) must have been in the Anonymous dump.

The Ambassador was aware of the shipment, according to the email. It was a highly illegal move, viewed as a felony. The approval was acquired for the shipment, but at the last moment the approval was retracted. The arms were shipped anyway. The document I read said half of the arms ended up in the hands of al-Qaeda and the other half went to the Embassy for shipment to Syria. All of the arms were supposed to go to the Embassy, but there was for lack of a better term a breach within the breach.

Sam

[riderinthestorm]

23. K&R. I don't prioritize the covert arms dealing in Benghazi over her emails or pay to play

I think it's all bad...