Hillary lied; innocent Libyans and Americans died.
To justify an illegal ouster of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, Hillary Clinton falsely claimed the Libyan leader was planning genocidal attacks against his domestic enemies, an investigative report in the Washington Timessuggests.
Documents and audio recordings examined by the newspaper suggest the former U.S. secretary of state had no clear plan for how to deal with the Libyan crisis she created and whether the lawlessness and chaos she spawned in that country led to the deadly Muslim terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.
Clinton was secretary of state on that terrible day. Despite her disastrous tenure at Foggy Bottom which saw Muslim irredentist movements gain ground in North Africa and the Middle East, she continues to be the early frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. She resigned as secretary of state in early 2013, paving the way for the utterly undistinguished then-Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to take over as chief public cheerleader for the Obama administration’s pro-Islamist campaign.
When that fateful 3 a.m. telephone call her 2008 TV ads warned about finally came, Mrs. Clinton snoozed on through it, allowing a comedy of errors consisting in part of incompetence and arrogance to dictate the U.S. government’s bungled response to Benghazi. Clinton and her fellow Obama White House officials lied over and over again about the catalyst for the attack, refusing for weeks even to call it a terrorist attack.
Instead Clinton blamed the Benghazi attack on an obscure U.S.-based filmmaker who made an anti-Islam movie trailer just about no one saw. Officials told anyone willing to listen that a spontaneous demonstration sparked by Muslim anger over the video had magically materialized in a city blanketed by al-Qaeda flags and that within hours this supposedly organic melee had claimed the lives of four Americans, including J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya. Bowing to Shariah law, Clinton had the filmmaker imprisoned on a flimsy legal pretext, America’s First Amendment be damned.
U.S intelligence did not concur with Clinton’s public rationale for invading Libya, a military action that was never approved by the United States Congress, according to the newspaper report. She had claimed Qaddafi was planning to commit acts of genocide aimed at liquidating his regime’s detractors. But intelligence operatives “had come to the opposite conclusion: that [Qaddafi] would not risk world outrage by killing civilians en masse even as he tried to crush the rebellion in his country.”
Citing secret Libyan intelligence documents, the Washington Times reports that Libyan officials were worried back in 2011 that weapons were being directed to NATO-supported rebels with ties to al-Qaeda.
“The reports included a 16-page list of weapons that Libyans supposedly tracked to the rebels from Western sources or their allies in the region,” according to the newspaper. “The memos were corroborated by a U.S. intelligence asset familiar with the documents as well as former top [Qaddafi] regime official Mohammed Ismael.”
“NATO has given permission to a number of weapons-loaded aircraft to land at Benghazi airport and some Tunisian airports,” the intelligence report stated. Libyan officials said they were worried that the weapons and training provided to the anti-Qaddafi rebels would spread in the region and find their way to Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city.
A year later, the Benghazi attack took place, leaving four Americans dead. Stevens was tortured before he died and his dead body was dragged around town by Islamist savages. In an increasingly familiar, grim ritual of Islamofascist humiliation, Stevens was reportedly sodomized by his Islamist captors, just as Qaddafi was by his Islamist captors.
More than a year before the Benghazi attack, several U.S. officials so distrusted then-Secretary Clinton’s judgment on the Libyan situation that they opened their own secret diplomatic channels with the Qaddafi regime, leaving the State Department out of the loop.
In mid-2011 Libyan officials and a Pentagon operative informed Ismael that they were thinking about seizing some of Qaddafi’s frozen assets and directing them to the rebels fighting against him. The report further suggests U.S. ally Qatar played a major part in shipping weapons to the Libyan rebels, a role Qatar adamantly denies.
“The Qataris have spent more than $100 million on this, and they have an agreement with the rebels that the moment you rule Libya you pay us back,” Qaddafi’s eldest son, Seif, told then Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in a conversation recorded in May 2011.
UNBELIEVABLE CLINTON SCANDAL!!!!!
Folks should underastand that such scandals are likely known as well documented rumors in Congress and it is likely that most Congressmen were aware. But it is in the nature of corrupt legislatures that opposition parties protect each other until the establishment decides its time to go… that time is recogniziable when all the scandals hidden for years by the press start to appear… that time may be now for Clinton but we should wonder why Rubio, Cruz, Sanders, Kasich were “clueless”?
Its funny how the electorate focuses on petty issues and misses the big ones.
@ babushka:
@ Keli-A:
@ woolymammoth:
@ Bear Klein:
http://forward.com/opinion/335805/never-again-means-taking-cue-from-protesters-and-confronting-donald-trump/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_MainList_Title_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Daily%202016-03-14&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20Monday-Friday
Both Fox and CNN posted that information.
On a related topic.
The republicans, if they get in, want to tackle the deficit.
They will look to cut funding and support to all third parties.
That means, keep the money at home. Spend the money at home for the Military, for Security.
That deficit attack will hurt Israel. And it is why Obama told Netanyahu to make a deal now, while he, Obama, is in power.
Once again, 3 billion non-jews, and we have the USA’s president helping Israel to obtain American discounts for purchases. Cruz would support Israel, and Rubio, but you can rest assured that Trump will not, and Hillory will not. Sandors, would support Israel.
lsatenstein wrote: “By the way, Obama’s ratings in the poles has escalated.” Now I need some mind bleach.
@ lsatenstein:
Trying to see things from your POV
I am afraid I have some bad news.
You have a terminal case of Rectal-Cranial Inversion.
@ lsatenstein:
@ lsatenstein:
Ok, be that way.
Hillary belongs in Prison not the White House!
@ lsatenstein:
You are seriously funny!! You said
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You said Israel erred ,
Do you realize if an Israeli goes to Lebanon they will either be killed or put in prison at best! So what in this world are you talking about?
You say you are a Jew. Great are you and your family moving to Israel so you can contribute to the Jewish Nation and help Israel perfect itself?
And yet again, it is Mandy Patinkin time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8y-qy9N01I
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.. She resigned as secretary of state in early 2013, paving the way for the utterly undistinguished then-Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to take over as chief public cheerleader for the Obama administration’s pro-Islamist campaign.
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I am a Jew, I am perhaps one of 16million in the world. There are a billion Muslims, a billion Chinese and a billion Indians.
Should the United States of America, ignore a billion Muslims? Are Jews always perfect, that is, we never make mistakes (like leaving Gaza), or by not engaging in trade with Lebanon, allowing Iran to take over Lebanon?
We Jews are very vocal minority, we are the tip of the tail on the dog, and we are quite successful at steering the dog. But when it comes to business, 8.5 million Israelis doing business with the USA is not the same as the combined 1billion Chinese, 1billion Arabs or 1 billion Indians.
I think the author is very demeaning of a great president. A president whose Republican congress completely blocked Obama from implementing anything truly favorable to Israel and to Americans. A congress that stopped his gun laws to force registration, a congress that wants to undo general affordable healthcare, a congress that wants to undo “anti-polution”.
And if Trump gets in, Narcissism ignores family ties. Israel will not be better off. I say that with a Republican President, both the American people and Israel will be worse off.
The best universally representative governments exist are where there are checks and counter checks as in a parliamentry system.
By the way, Obama’s ratings in the poles has escalated. It did not happen because of love, it happened because the people now recognize his efforts and his deliverables to the American people.
The Koch brothers have put 860million US dollars into the pot to defeat the Democrats. The Koch brothers want to maintain their coal empire. They want the USA as it was in the 1920’s, no polution controls and big profits. So much has been spent by them over the past years to harm items of law good for the people. I fear for Canada and Israel, for if the Republicans get in. No more free trade or even fair-trade.