Perspective: Hillary's Benghazi Interview

 

Last Thursday, October 22, 2015, the Benghazi House Committee interviewed Hilary Clinton for 11 hours on public television to determine what she knew about the event that occurred on September 11, 2011. The Media in general reported that Hillary sailed through the 11 hours unscathed, and nothing new was learned. For the most part that is true, but here are some new and significant findings.

 

1. We learned that Hillary was a major player in getting us into Libya in the first place. During the interview it became clear that Hillary instigated and participated in the implementation of the plan to topple Gaddafi the President of Libya and that she very much wanted it to be known that she was a major player.

 

2. After Gaddafi was killed, Libya was a no mans land. Ambassador Stevens and his staff sent 600 requests to the State Department for help, all of which were denied. In the interview, Hillary stated that these requests never came to her attention. None of her staff were fired, and she claimed that she did not have the authority to fire anyone.

 

3. Eleven O’clock the night of the attack Hillary e-mailed Chelsea stating that two of our personnel were killed by al Queda terrorists. She also e-mailed the Premier of Egypt with the same message, adding it was not the film. This indicated that she and as well as most of those involved knew that very night that it was an al Queda attack, which was subsequently verified. The real Benghazi story is the cover up by the Administration. Hillary simply fell in with the Administration’s narrative that the attack was instigated by the video.

 

That Hillary is a liar is confirmed by the e-mails, that she is an incompetent manager is confirmed by her claiming she never knew of the 600 requests for help. These subordinates report to her. Six hundred is a huge number. Imagine her asking her subordinates “what is new”? What would they have told her? Now, remember no one was fired, and Hillary claimed in the interview that she did not have the power to fire anyone.

 

In no way did the Committee require 11 hours to determine what she knew. Moreover, politically that would have best been done behind closed doors. What was accomplished was to show case Hillary’s political acumen.

 

In pursuit of the cover up part of the the Benghazi story, the Committee still has the Secretary of Defense, General Petraeus and other top ranking personnel to interview to determine who created the video story and why no help was sent to the four Americans the night of September 11, 2011.