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DonViejo

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Wed Jun 29, 2016, 08:24 AM Jun 2016

Ambassador's sister: I don't blame Clinton for Benghazi

The sister of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, said she doesn't blame former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for what happened.

"It is clear, in hindsight, that the facility was not sufficiently protected by the State Department and the Defense Department. But what was the underlying cause? Perhaps if Congress had provided a budget to increase security for all missions around the world, then some of the requests for more security in Libya would have been granted. Certainly the State Department is underbudgeted," Anne Stevens told The New Yorker.

"I do not blame Hillary Clinton or Leon Panetta." Stevens said they were "balancing security efforts at embassies and missions around the world. And their staffs were doing their best to provide what they could with the resources they had," she said.

"The Benghazi Mission was understaffed. We know that now. But, again, Chris knew that. It wasn’t a secret to him. He decided to take the risk to go there. It is not something they did to him. It is something he took on himself."

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/285277-chris-stevens-sister-i-dont-blame-clinton

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