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Justice on Benghazi
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
testified at hearings before House and
Senate committees recently. The hearings
were largely tense affairs that had Clinton
on the defensive for much of the time.
In the aftermath of the attack on our
consulate in Benghazi that left four
Americans dead, including Ambassador Chris
Stevens, the Obama Administration and State
Department stuck by an unlikely narrative
that the obvious terrorist attack was the
result of a spontaneous protest over a
YouTube video that got out of hand.
The pushing of this narrative in
conjunction with the State Department’s
unwillingness to act on requests for
security before and during the attack has
caused an uproar with the right. However, in
the four months since the attack, details of
the State Department’s failings and the
subsequent cover-up have been difficult to
come by.
During the hearings, as Senator Ron
Johnson questioned Clinton, he noted that
the answer to whether or not the attack was,
indeed, the result of a protest or not could
have been ascertained by making a phone call
to a survivor of the siege on Benghazi.
To Clinton, Johnson stated,
“We were misled that there were
supposedly protests and then something
sprang out of that, an assault sprang
out of that and that was easily
ascertained that that was not the fact
and the American people could have known
that within days. And they didn’t know
that.”
Clinton then heatedly responded,
“With all due respect, the fact is we
have four dead Americans was it because
of a protest or was it because of guys
out for a walk one night who decided
they’d go kill some Americans. What
difference at this point does it make?
It is our job to figure out what
happened and do everything we can to
prevent it from ever happening again,
Senator.”
Clinton’s remark is sure to haunt her in
future years as the frustrated response,
equipped with fists pounding on the table,
signaled a desire to move on from
discussions of culpability in this whole
quagmire of governmental ineptitude and
dishonesty. This dramatic political theater
did not satisfy everyone on the hill. Three
Republican Committee Chairman are not
letting go of this issue. Rep. Ed Royce
(R-CA), Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), and Rep.
Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) are demanding answers
to critical questions that went unanswered
during Clinton's testimony. Among their
demands are a request for documentation of
security at Benghazi, video footage of the
attack, and any other material that has been
withheld related to the incident that would
help answer key unanswered questions.
At a time when Americans are demanding
answers from government and an
administration that promised transparency,
we cannot, WE WILL NOT, let this Benghazi
scandal fade away and Clinton’s desire to
gloss over details may have created more
discussion than anything else.
LET HER HEAR YOUR VOICE BY SIGNING THE
PETITION TODAY!
In memory of those lives lost,
Todd Cefaratti
Freedom Organizer
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