Outgoing Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton demonstrated that she has all the credentials to run for President in 2016. Clinton sat down with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren for a one on one interview and promptly blamed Bush for the lack of funds to secure the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Although there was little hope that Greta would ask Hillary any questions of substance in the interview or press her on her evasive answers, she did manage one general question about the attack on our consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the destruction of the facility and the death of Ambassador Stevens, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, and Sean Smith. Van Susteren lobbed a perfect softball pitch to Clinton with her question about Benghazi: âNumber one is in light of whatâs happened, can Americans now feel safe or satisfied that we are moving to secure all our consulates and embassies for our diplomats overseas? Instead of assuming any responsibility for being totally out of the loop on the constant requests for security for the Benghazi Consulate, Clinton responded like a true American leader: She blamed George Bush the Younger: âNow, itâs not all a question of money. I am the first to say that. You know, you have to have the right people and the right job, making the right decisions. But money is a factor. And ever since the Bush administration, our requests for security monies from Congress have not been met. So youâve had to make priority decisions. And itâs been difficult.â Sadly, the American public are the true victims of Van Susterenâs utter unwillingness to press Hillary on the issues. She didnât ask Clinton how she was able to remain unaware of more than six months of security requests from a consulate in a war zone. After Hillary echoed her employer, President Obama, and blamed Bush for the lack of funds, Greta let her off the hook and didnât ask a single question about the wasteful spending by the State Department. Since the worshipful Van Susteren was completely unwilling to ask these questions, we will have to do the job for her. Wolff Bachner: Secretary Clinton, you testified that you were not personally aware of the many complaints from Ambassador Stevens, and other State Department officials, about the lack of proper security at the Benghazi Consulate. Are you seriously making the claim that a consulate located in a nation that just experienced a violent revolution did not require extra security? A consulate in the most volatile region of the world was forced to plead for months for proper security and you didnât have an inkling that they needed enhanced protection? Are you telling us that not one person in the State Department came to you and told you that Ambassador Stevens was deeply concerned about the possibility of a terrorist attack on the consulate? Are you telling us you were unaware that militant Islamists were trailing Ambassador Stevens for months and had openly published death threats against him on Facebook and other well known Jihadi websites? Websites that we certainly expect the State Department to monitor on a full time basis to better protect our diplomats and the nation. Hillary Clinton: (still waiting for an answer) Wolff Bachner: Secretary Clinton, you testified under oath and blamed the Bush Administration and Congress for not meeting your funding requests. Are you seriously telling the American people that when you establish a consulate in one of the most dangerous places on the planet, a country overrun by heavily armed Islamist militias, you do not have contingency funds to provide proper security? Are you actually saying that the State Department, which allocated over one billion dollars to fight global warming, lacks the funds to protect our diplomats? If you lacked the funds to properly protect a consulate in a war zone, why did your budget planners allocate $100,000 to send three comedians on a tour of India and spend 85 million dollars on an Embassy we will never use? You spent almost six million dollars to preserve cultural sites in 100 foreign nations, but you lacked the funds to protect American diplomats in Libya. Hillary Clinton: (still waiting for an answer) The ability to âBlame Bushâ seems to be an important trait for any Democrat who has the ambition to seek the highest office in the land. The ability to evade a direct answer on any and all questions is also high on the list of desirable qualities for Americaâs leaders. Hillary performed flawlessly in front of the Congress, and by doing so, she is now being touted as the front runner for 2016. Apparently waving your fists in the air while refusing to directly answer questions, and placing the blame on others, is a quality that many Americans appreciate in their Presidential candidates. If Hillary Clinton is the Democratic Candidate for President in 2016, we can only hope the voters remember this conversation between the Secretary of State and a United States Senator. Sen. Ron Johnson: âA simple phone call to people in Benghazi would have established immediately that there was no protest. Why wasnât that known?â Hillary Clinton: (Shaking her fists in the air) âWith all due respect, what difference at this point does it make?â Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/502647/hil...ecure-benghazi-consulate/#Z2V4xOSoJGvylmLB.99
WASHINGTON (AP) â Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is leaving office with a slap at critics of the Obama administration's handling of the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. She says they don't live in an "evidenced-based world" and that their refusal to accept the administration's statements is regrettable. Now THAT is rich. She and the rest of Team Obama come up with some wild ass story about a video being responsible while completely ignoring the evidence, but it's everyone else who doesn't live in a "evidence based world". Talk about being self deluded. I would say that bump to the head has really taken it's toll, but living in delusion has been at the core of Hillary's life. I mean, how else do you show your face in public after defending your cheating husband time and time again.
Hillary seems to think everyone has problems witht he facts but her and the rest of Team Obama. OK, Hilly, here are the facts: The embassy was attacked three times before 9/11 with no response. The embassy was in a "war zone" sufficiently volatile to close other embassies and get the Red Cross to retreat. We refused to. 9/11 isn't just another date. Repeated requests for help were in some cases rejected and in other cases ignored. Four Americans died unnecessarily. The Administration trotted out a story about a spontaneous demonstration causing the attack which they knew at the time that was not the case since they watched the attack live. The Administration continued to push the same lie 5 days later, 10 days later, and two weeks later using a variety of people from a UN Ambassador to a White House spokesperson to Vice President to President. We have no problem accepting the fact that everyone involved is either incompetent or willful liars.
She keeps talking about a lack of money but at the time of the attack on Benghazi the State Department had $3 Billion sitting in its security expenditures account.