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I am glad this report is out now instead of later. We need to focus on problems of today.
JUST IN: House Report Exonerates Hillary Clinton For Benghazi, Exposes Republican Witch-Hunt
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/06/27/just-house-report-exonerates-hillary-clinton-benghazi-exposes-republican-witch-hunt/
By Colin Taylor
Posted on June 27, 2016
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has stoically weathered a ceaseless storm of slander swirling around her, victim of a Republican witch-hunt aimed solely at derailing her chances of winning the American presidency. But she may finally have some vindication, as this morning, a House of Representatives report from the Select Benghazi Committee was published definitely exonerating Clinton from the absurd charges that she bears the blame for American deaths in the 2011 terrorist attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi by the radical militant group Ansar al-Sharia, and declares that it is long past time for the Select Committee to conclude its work.
The report provides conclusive evidence that the Clinton State Department granted the many requests for extra security made by the embassy embodied, debunking the false narrative circulated by right-wing conspiracy theorist radio hosts and most recently by presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, who claims that Ambassador Stevens and his staff in Libya made hundreds and hundreds of requests for security. They were desperate. They needed help. Hillary Clintons State Department refused them all.
The truth is that House Republicans cut the funding for embassy security by $128 million in fiscal 2011 and $331 million in fiscal year 2012, placing the blame for the attacks success on their own shoulders. In 2011, a year before the attack, Clinton herself had warned that the embassy budget cuts were detrimental to Americas national security and House Republicans ignored her warnings.
The report goes further and details twenty six unique points slamming their own committee on Benghazi for squander[ing] millions of dollars in a partisan effort to attack a presidential candidate. The Committee has been conducting its business without a set budget, without a set plan operation, of purposefully withholding information in order to implicate Secretary Clinton, of fabricating false allegations against Secretary Clinton and then cherry-picking evidence with obvious bias in order to make those allegations appear valid, and of using political threats in order to bully other Departments into complicity.........................
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)The report was issued by the Democratic members of the select committee. In other words, the Republicans will spin it as a partisan defense of Secretary Clinton.
I'm happy to see this report but I don't think it will change the GOP's narrative.
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)This story is somewhat confusing. According to the New York Times, the full committee has released its report as well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/politics/hillary-clinton-benghazi.html?_r=0
Unsurprisingly, there's lots of criticism by the Republicans of Secretary Clinton and President Obama but none of it comes close to the dishonest narrative the Republicans have been peddling all along.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Rightly or wrongly, they have always been focused on email security and the Clinton Foundation.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)I am not pronouncing guilt; just stating what the FBI investigation is looking into.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)1. The Atlantic 06/2016: A Primer on the Scandals of Bill snd Hillary Clinton
2. The Washington Post 2/23/2016: Foreign Officials gave Millions to Foundation while Clinton at State
JudyM
(29,122 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)This is the first I have heard of it.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)MY point, for those who have trouble understanding, is that this does little to put the real problem behind her. We knew the Benghazi witch hunt was nonsense from the outset. She was never at risk there.
The FBI investigation has always been the only true risk. And it remains. Hope that helps your understanding.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)You were going in a different direction. Understood.