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riversedge

(69,710 posts)
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 09:08 AM Jun 2016

JUST IN: House Report Exonerates Hillary Clinton For Benghazi, Exposes Republican Witch-Hunt

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 Clinton’s 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 attack’s success on their own shoulders. In 2011, a year before the attack, Clinton herself had warned that the embassy budget cuts were “detrimental to America’s 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.........................

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JUST IN: House Report Exonerates Hillary Clinton For Benghazi, Exposes Republican Witch-Hunt (Original Post) riversedge Jun 2016 OP
Something isn't made clear PJMcK Jun 2016 #1
And the full committee's report was released PJMcK Jun 2016 #5
As we knew all along. Unfortunately, the FBI investigation continues. morningfog Jun 2016 #2
The FBI is not, and was never investigating the Benghazi matter Chasstev365 Jun 2016 #3
FBI has been focusing on Clinton Foundation? tia uponit7771 Jun 2016 #4
Aspects of it, yes. Chasstev365 Jun 2016 #8
Do you have a source for that? thx in advance uponit7771 Jun 2016 #9
I can't do links from my phone, but here you go: Chasstev365 Jun 2016 #10
Multiple sources are available for you without waiting ... via Google. JudyM Jun 2016 #12
I know the FBI was not investigating Benghazi. I didn't suggest otherwise. morningfog Jun 2016 #6
The FBI is investigating Benghazi? NCTraveler Jun 2016 #7
Did I say that? No. morningfog Jun 2016 #11
Got it. Benghazi was the topic. NCTraveler Jun 2016 #13

PJMcK

(21,916 posts)
1. Something isn't made clear
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 09:16 AM
Jun 2016

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)
5. And the full committee's report was released
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 09:38 AM
Jun 2016

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.

Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
3. The FBI is not, and was never investigating the Benghazi matter
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 09:36 AM
Jun 2016

Rightly or wrongly, they have always been focused on email security and the Clinton Foundation.

Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
8. Aspects of it, yes.
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 09:43 AM
Jun 2016

I am not pronouncing guilt; just stating what the FBI investigation is looking into.

Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
10. I can't do links from my phone, but here you go:
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 09:56 AM
Jun 2016

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

 

morningfog

(18,115 posts)
11. Did I say that? No.
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 09:56 AM
Jun 2016

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.

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