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Hillary Clinton Blames “Imperfect Information” for Lack of Security in Benghazi

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On January 27, 2014 @ 2:03 pm In The Point | 64 Comments

What exactly is the “imperfect information” part? Ambassador Stevens and RSO Nordstrom repeatedly asked for security upgrades and were denied. The State Department employee responsible for this denials has gotten a promotion for covering for Hillary.

There were repeated warnings of Al Qaeda activity. Benghazi was a city controlled by Islamist militias linked to terrorist groups. Other diplomats and diplomatic facilities had been attacked and even the Benghazi mission had been attacked previously.

Ambassador Stevens’ last cable talked of threats from the militias that were supposed to provide security and warned of increasing violence.

What was imperfect or ambiguous about this exactly?

”From April to June, Libya also witnesses an increase in attacks targeting international organizations and foreign interests,” Stevens wrote, describing attacks on a United Nations official in Benghazi, International Committee for the Red Cross buildings in Benghazi and Misrata, and IED at the mission in Benghazi, and RPG fired at the British Ambassador’s convoy, and an attack on the consulate of Tunisia.

But no, after blaming a YouTube video and jailing the filmmaker, Hillary Clinton is now blaming “imperfect information”.

“My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi,” Clinton said when asked to identify “do-overs” of her time as America’s top diplomat, during her keynote appearance before the National Automobile Dealers Association in New Orleans.

“It was a terrible tragedy, losing four Americans, two diplomats, and now it’s public, so I can say two CIA operatives. Losing an ambassador like Chris Stevens, who was one of our very best and had served in Libya and across the Middle East and spoke Arabic,” she said

“I mean, you know, you make these choices based on imperfect information,” she said. “And you make them to, as we say, the best of your ability. But that doesn’t mean that there’s not going to be unforeseen consequences, unpredictable twists and turns.”

Unforeseen? Really?

An American diplomatic facility without proper structural security or security personnel coming under attack on September 11 in a Muslim city where Al Qaeda groups operate openly and control entire areas is not unforeseen.

It’s not some sort of surprise twist ending like a diplomatic facility being overrun by Al Qaeda terrorists… in Brussels.

An American diplomatic facility without proper security being attacked on September 11 in Libya is the least unforeseen event in all of human history.


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