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9 New Revelations from the Benghazi Committee Hearings
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[/] by Joel B. Pollak22 Oct 20150 [/] http://j.mp/0Bengh9revs
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The
media declared that she “won” because she largely retained a
placid demeanor. The Democrats declared that she won because they had
already decided her political survival mattered more than the truth.
Yet
there were nine key revelations that emerged from the Benghazi
committee.
1.
Hillary Clinton told the prime minister of Egypt on Sep. 12, 2012
that a video was not responsible. It is now clear beyond any doubt
that Clinton knew the Benghazi attack was carried out by a terror
organization, not because of a spontaneous demonstration. As Rep. Jim
Jordan (R-OH) stressed repeatedly, we now know that what Clinton told
foreign governments and what she told her daughter were different
from what she told the American people.
2.
Ambassador Chris Stevens did not have Clinton’s personal email
address, but Sid Blumenthal did. After stressing how deeply Clinton
cared about her friend, and mourned his loss, it was striking to hear
her admit that he did not have her private email address, but that
Blumenthal–who had been denied a post at the State Department–did,
and was her most frequent email correspondent. The contrast struck
even some liberal observers as important.
3.
Clinton and the State Department broke the law in failing to sign a
waiver for security at Benghazi. Rep. Susan Brooks (R-IN), who was
outstanding throughout, forced Clinton to admit that she had not
complied with the Secure Embassy Construction and Counterterrorism
Act of 1999 (SECCA), passed after the embassy attacks in Kenya and
Tanzania in 1998. Clinton’s extremely weak defense is that the
consulate at Benghazi was “temporary.”
4.
Clinton believes that Chris Stevens was joking when he asked about
security at the Benghazi compound. It was certainly the hearing’s
most bizarre moment: “Well, Congresswoman, one of the great
attributes that Chris Stevens had was a really good sense of humor
and I just see him smiling as he’s typing this because it’s
clearly in response to the e-mail down below talking about picking up
a few ‘fire sale items from the Brits’,” she told Brooks. The
“fire sale items” were barricades left behind by the British, who
were leaving Benghazi because it was unsafe.
5.
Contrary to her claims to have done “everything” possible,
Clinton decided not to send help to Benghazi. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland
(R-GA)’s gentle manner was disarming, his questions exemplary. And
he forced Clinton to admit that she decided not to send the FES
[Foreign Emergency Support] team to rescue Americans in Benghazi.
6.
Clinton solicited intelligence from Blumenthal but claims not to know
where he was getting it. After he dismantled her claim that emails
from Blumenthal had been “unsolicited,” committee chair Rep. Trey
Gowdy (R-SC) asked Clinton whether she knew Blumenthal’s sources.
She says she did not, but had to admit she was careful to remove his
name from emails sent on to the White House. If Blumenthal’s source
was the late CIA official Tyler Drumheller, as Eli Lake and Josh
Rogin suggest, Clinton may have broken the Espionage Act, as Ace
explains.
7.
Clinton has no explanation for why she installed a private server,
and failed to reveal its existence. At first, Westmoreland appeared
to go easy on Clinton, saying that her private e-mails were not a
problem–her server was. Then he asked her whether she had revealed
the server to her own attorneys before they met in August with the
State Department: “Did you tell them you had a private server at
that time?” Clinton could not answer clearly.
8.
Clinton believes that “90 to 95 percent” of her emails were on
the State Department email system. Even if that were true, it leaves
out hundreds of emails. Regardless, Gowdy countered that the State
Department could not verify that claim when he checked it with them,
and that less than one percent of her emails were on the system.
Clinton later said that she had turned over every email she had–but
of course the problem is that she had them.
9.
After all this time, Clinton still blames a YouTube video for the
Benghazi attacks. “Congressman, I believe to this day the video
played a role,” she told Jordan. She and the Democrats repeatedly
stressed the video’s role in demonstrations elsewhere, such as
Tunisia (which happened Sep. 14, three days later). She did not want
to admit what the evidence clearly showed–namely, that she lied–so
she tried to spin a context in which the lie made sense.
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