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Hillary Clinton offered up thanks to the four U.S. citizens who died after the Benghazi consulate was stormed on September the 11th.


'Today we bring home four Americans who gave their lives for our country and our values,' said Clinton. 'To the families of our fallen colleagues, I offer our most heartfelt condolences and deepest gratitude.'


Clinton said the rage and violence aimed at American missions was prompted by 'an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with.'


Clinton praised Sean Smith and ex Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods as someone who she knew personally.


'He had the hands of a healer as well as the arms of a warrior, earning distinction as a registered nurse and certified paramedic,' said Clinton of Woods.


Clinton also hailed the other ex-Navy SEAL, Glen Doherty. 'He, too, died as he lived, serving his country and protecting his colleagues.'


The Secretary of State said Stevens, 'won friends for the United States in far-flung places,' and thanked his parents, who were at the ceremony, for the 'gift' that Stevens was.


Clinton and Obama both spoke of how the four men lived their lives — and how their mission would go on.


'This work, and the men and women who risk their lives to do it, are at the heart of what makes America great and good," Clinton said. 'So we will wipe away our tears, stiffen our spines, and face the future undaunted.'



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Obama-Clinton-pay-tribute.html#ixzz2kMUgPjag
 
As soon as it was revealed that U.S. diplomatic offices in Benghazi, Libya, had been attacked on the Sept. 11, 2012, leaving four Americans -- Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith with the U.S. Foreign Service, Glen Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods -- all dead, questions arose over how it could have been allowed to happen.


Obama administration officials initially gave differing explanations, and the ensuing political firestorm over what they knew, and when, is still raging.


In early May, three "whistleblowers" appeared before a congressional committee and gave accounts of the events preceding, during and after the attacks that differed from previous administration responses.


May 17, 2013: Several Obama administrations who were in key positions during the consulate attack acknowledged to Sharyl Attkisson that a range of mistakes were made both that night and in subsequent messaging to Congress and the public, but they insisted those missteps reflected "incompetence rather than malice or cover up."


"We're portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots," said one Obama administration official who was part of the Benghazi response. "It's actually closer to us being idiots."


May 15, 2013: The White House released some 100 pages of internal emails showing how the CIA talking points originally referenced al Qaeda's links to the attack in addition to at assessment that it may have been "spontaneously inspired" by the Cairo protests. After revisions, however, the al Qaeda references were removed.


Obama said in a White House press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron. "What we have been very clear about throughout was that immediately after this event happened, nobody understood exactly what was taking place during the course of those few days."


May 12, 2013: Thomas Pickering, former UN Ambassador, who along with former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, prepared the Accountability Review Board report on the State Department's handling of the Benghazi attacks says he didn't think it was necessary to interview former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "because in fact we knew where the responsibility rested."


May 11, 2013: CBS News reports details of approximately 100 interagency government emails, sent on Sept. 14 and Sept. 15, regarding the content of the talking points on the Benghazi attacks. The talking points were revised numerous times before Susan Rice used them on political talk shows on Sept. 16.


May 8, 2013: In much-anticipated congressional testimony, three U.S. officials who were stationed in Libya during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks deliver emotional accounts of the events and their aftermath. They renew criticism against the government for allegedly issuing stand-down orders to special forces who they claim could have assisted in the response, arguing that such forces could have mitigated the attack's damage had they been promptly deployed.


Speaking publicly for the first time since the attacks, Mark Thompson, the acting deputy assistant Secretary of State for counterterrorism; Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya; and Eric Nordstrom, former regional security officer in Libya, provided perhaps the most detailed public record of what, from their perspectives, happened on the night of September 11, and what might have been done differently.


May 6, 2013: CBS News reports more details from Hicks' private testimony in which he claimed a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks was forbidden from doing so.


April 30, 2013: The attorney for a whistleblower on the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, said the Obama administration was impeding efforts to allow her client and other whistleblowers to speak.


April 23, 2013:In an interim progress report on the Benghazi attacks, five House committees call former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other high-ranking State Department officials responsible for reducing security levels at the consulate, contradicting the testimony Clinton gave before Congress. Clinton approved security reductions at the consulate. In her testimony before Congress in January, Clinton said, "With specific security requests they didn't come to me. I had no knowledge of them."


White House and senior State Department officials attempted to protect the State Department from criticism by altering accurate talking points drafted by the intelligence community. For instance, the report says that, after a Sept. 15, 2012 meeting, administration officials removed references to the likely participation of Islamic extremists.

The report also contradicts administration claims that the talking points were changed to protect classified information. None of the email exchanges reviewed ever mentioned a concern about classified information.


Feb. 13, 2013: U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on the "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and said those who have accused the Obama administration of a cover up in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi are "dead wrong, and they are in fact doing a disservice to those we lost."


She defended her initial characterization of the Benghazi attacks as an outgrowth from a spontaneous protest, telling Stewart: "I shared the best information that our intelligence community had at the time, and they provided the talking points that I used." She admitted, "they were wrong in one respect, we learned subsequently, and that is that there wasn't, in fact, a protest. Asked why she was selected to brief the talk shows on that particular Sunday, Rice explained, "Secretary Clinton, who had been asked originally to do it, felt that she didn't want to."


Feb. 7, 2013: Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testify before Congress. Asked by Senator Lindsey Graham if he was "stunned" that Clinton was unaware of an August cable from slain Ambassador Chris Stevens saying the consulate wouldn't be able to withstand a coordinated attack, Dempsey said he was "surprised."


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57584252/benghazi-timeline-how-the-probe-unfolded
 
Dec. 19: One State Department official resigned and three others were put on administrative leave after independent review of security lapses at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.


The State Department's chief of security Eric Boswell, resigned, while his deputy Charlene Lamb, an official in the Near East Division that oversees Libya, and another remain on the payroll but were put on leave.


Career diplomat Thomas Pickering, who ran the review board that produced the report, said: "Frankly, the State Department had not given Benghazi the security, both physical and personnel resources, it needed."


Dec. 31: A bipartisan report from the Senate Homeland Security Committee points fingers at the State Department, Pentagon and White House for failing to recognize and respond to security risks at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi before the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.


The report, titled "Flashing Red," finds that the Defense and State departments hadn't assessed the availability of U.S. agencies to respond in Benghazi "in the event of a crisis.



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57584252/benghazi-timeline-how-the-probe-unfolded
 
In an interview with CBS News' Margaret Brennan, Clinton first acknowledges that the State Dept. considered using outside assets to rescue those under siege in Benghazi but decided against it:


"Well we considered everything and, um, we did as you know send additional assets from Tripoli. But it was a fast moving, very difficult assault to try to figure out. As you know, the assault on the post ended, there was a gap of time, then the assault on the annex, um, so everybody who had any responsibility was scrambling very hard to figure out what more could be done."


Clinton said they did not send assets from outside Libya "partly because of the difficulties of trying to do that."


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57584252/benghazi-timeline-how-the-probe-unfolded
 
In the weeks before his death, Stevens sent the State Dept. several requests for increased security for diplomats in Libya.


No outside U.S. military help was sent to Benghazi despite the presence of a major naval air base in Sigonella, Italy, less than one hour's flight away. Unarmed Predator drones were moved to fly over Benghazi during the attack.


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57584252/benghazi-timeline-how-the-probe-unfolded
 
Lt. Colonel Andy Wood, who headed the Site Security Team in Libya, said U.S. diplomatic personnel in Libya repeatedly requested increased security, but the State Department in Washington DC denied those requests.


Wood said his team and a six-member mobile security deployment team were pulled from Libya in August, and that two other MSD's also left between February and August.



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57584252/benghazi-timeline-how-the-probe-unfolded
 
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is, well, kind of facing a ratings slump nowadays, along with dear leader Barack Obama.


Politico, of all places, trumpeted the information out, perhaps to rally sympathy for the Benghazi-beleaguered former First Lady:


Hillary Clinton, in addition to President Barack Obama, is facing declining approval numbers, a poll shows.


Clinton has lost a majority of public approval, according to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey.


Most importantly, the hit in approval ratings came from sensitive demos:


The poll also highlights that Clinton is losing support among younger voters, independents and even within her own party.


She dropped 15 percentage points since April among 18- to 34-year-olds.


Additionally, her approval rating among independents fell.


Clinton’s approval among Democrats also fell by 12 points in the most recent poll.


Although some may say this is irrelevant since the 2016 elections are so far away, Hillary is a well-known commodity, the Benghazi story broke over a year ago and the ghosts are still lingering over her already thin record of actual accomplishments.



But as any true believer might join Hillary in saying: What difference does it make?


http://www.ijreview.com/2013/11/91540-hillary-rodham-clinton-hits-ratings-slump-obamas-approval-still-record-lows/
 
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is, well, kind of facing a ratings slump nowadays, along with dear leader Barack Obama.


Politico, of all places, trumpeted the information out, perhaps to rally sympathy for the Benghazi-beleaguered former First Lady:


Hillary Clinton, in addition to President Barack Obama, is facing declining approval numbers, a poll shows.


Clinton has lost a majority of public approval, according to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey.


Most importantly, the hit in approval ratings came from sensitive demos:


The poll also highlights that Clinton is losing support among younger voters, independents and even within her own party.


She dropped 15 percentage points since April among 18- to 34-year-olds.


Additionally, her approval rating among independents fell.


Clinton’s approval among Democrats also fell by 12 points in the most recent poll.


Although some may say this is irrelevant since the 2016 elections are so far away, Hillary is a well-known commodity, the Benghazi story broke over a year ago and the ghosts are still lingering over her already thin record of actual accomplishments.



But as any true believer might join Hillary in saying: What difference does it make?


http://www.ijreview.com/2013/11/91540-hillary-rodham-clinton-hits-ratings-slump-obamas-approval-still-record-lows/
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Even so, she still beats all likely Republican candidates by a very significant margin.
 
I could give a rat's ass if folks on the right question her qualifications. They get a chance to nominate their candidate, and we get a chance to nominate ours. In November of 2016, we'll see which one the country likes best. I'll be prepared to live with the electorate's choice, but my guess is that the right will still be whining about Benghazi or Whitewater or Obama's birth certificate when they lose that election like they did the last two.
 
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