Top State Department Official: Hillary’s People Covered Up “Damaging Documents”

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This is big and the media will go on ignoring it.

Sharyl Attkisson left CBS so she could cover stories like this. Once again we have a top State Department official going on the record about misconduct and once again the media will erect its blank wall of silence.

As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants were part of an operation to “separate” damaging documents before they were turned over to the Accountability Review Board investigating security lapses surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

According to former Deputy Assistant Secretary Raymond Maxwell, the after-hours session took place over a weekend in a basement operations-type center at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. This is the first time Maxwell has publicly come forward with the story.

At the time, Maxwell was a leader in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), which was charged with collecting emails and documents relevant to the Benghazi probe.

He didn’t know it then, but Maxwell would ultimately become one of four State Department officials singled out for discipline—he says scapegoated—then later cleared for devastating security lapses leading up to the attacks. Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were murdered during the Benghazi attacks.

Maxwell goes on to describe the session. He’s a State Department professional and African-American. He was a strong Obama supporter. He certainly doesn’t have anything to gain now by talking about it. He has a great deal to lose.

The ARB was already a scam because it was a case of the fox investigating the case of the henhouse, but even worse Hillary’s people made sure that the board would only see what they wanted it to. This multilevel paranoia is very indicative of Hillary’s mindset.

“She told me, ‘Ray, we are to go through these stacks and pull out anything that might put anybody in the [Near Eastern Affairs] front office or the seventh floor in a bad light,’” says Maxwell. He says “seventh floor” was State Department shorthand for then-Secretary of State Clinton and her principal advisors.

“I asked her, ‘But isn’t that unethical?’ She responded, ‘Ray, those are our orders.’ ”

And the media also has its orders.

Several weeks after he was placed on leave with no formal accusations, Maxwell made an appointment to address his status with a State Department ombudsman.

“I told her that ‘My name is on TV and I’m on administrative leave, it seems like it’s about me.’ Then she said, ‘You’re not harmed, you’re still getting paid. Don’t watch TV. Take your wife on a cruise. It’s not about you; it’s about Hillary and 2016.”

  • Pete

    It’s not about you; it’s about Hillary and 2016.”

    I would rather have Petraeus than Hillary. I know he is not perfect, but he is eminently more qualified.

    Hillary is just a political gold digger. G-d Help Us!

    • truebearing

      Petraeus was a fool for accepting the job at the CIA. They set him up for a fall so his political future was ended. He would be better than Hillary. I’d be better than Hillary and I don’t even know whwere to buy reset buttons.

      Hillary better buy a reset button that includes one of those memory erasing devices they use in “Men In Black.” Benghazi has become as sticky as congealed blood.

      • cheri

        Staples. Staples has the reset buttons.

      • Pete

        Petraeus’s political career ended, when political people found out about his affair (or when he began his affair (depends on what people do when they find out)).

        All they had to have is enough information so he could not deny it.

        If he would have been a candidate in 2016 or 2020 and they did not like his politics, they would have trotted it out.

      • Gold Stars

        My dog would be better than Hillary. He is both smarter and better informed! Not to mention, more trustworthy!!!

  • truebearing

    Maxwell is black, eh? That will complicate the smears slightly. I guess the racism charge won’t work. Better go with sexism, with a side of Islamphobia.

    So now we learn what we always knew…but the statute of limitations has run out. The leftist media has adopted an expiration date on truth…to be determined based on political needs.

  • Erudite Mavin

    Hear about this on FOX.
    Won’t hold by breath waiting for ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC to report this further Benghazi cover up

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      • Gold Stars

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  • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

    This is damning – or would be, if the media were actually doing journalism.

  • Libslayer

    The media is criminally complicit in the massive coverup of the real story of four Americans killed due to the callous treachery of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
    This would end any republican career and they would serve jail time.
    And they would deserve it.
    But democrats get away with murder, literally, and the obamedia clams up.
    Sickening all around.

  • worldwatchman

    WHEN will the government finally be brought to justice? Just because your name is Clinton, Obama or Holder doesn’t mean you’re above it