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‘Umm. Ooops.’: The Top 5 Answers to Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Question of ‘What Difference…Does It Make?’

Jan. 23, 2013 3:52pm Mytheos Holt

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced down Sen. Ron Johnson and asked exasperatedly, “What difference at this point does it make” why the attacks in Benghazi happened, she must have known it would spur controversy.

Even if she didn’t, it has. Specifically, a whole host of right-leaning commentators have leaped at the chance to answer Clinton’s entirely rhetorical question. Below are the 5 best responses from those commentators.

#5. Redstate blogger Moe Lane

Top 5 Answers to Hillary Clintons Benghazi Question

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“It matters because – contra Hillary Clinton’s tacit attitude, and frankly, contra Barack Obama’s tacit attitude, too – the US government exists for the benefit of its citizens, and it is responsive to the desires and opinions of its citizens. Not the other way around. When one of our people gets killed, the government has no right to hide the reason, despite how personally or professionally embarrassing that the reason might be. And it is especially important that American voters be told what is actually happening, because – and this will be a shock to the Democratic party, I’m sure – American foreign policy is ultimately supposed to be reflective of the will of the American electorate.”

#4. Columnist Debra J. Saunders

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“There’s a big difference between a 9/11 attack that stems from a protest, some guys out for a walk, and a concerted terrorist attack on an American mission. If it was just a protest or guys out for a walk, the U.S. response and efforts to prevent a repeat must be very different than the reaction to a planned, armed attack to kill an American ambassador and staff. If it’s a protest or a rogue attack, routine security changes must occur. If it was a planned terrorist attack — and I think we know it was — Washington has to re-think its assumptions.”

#3. Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin

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“It doesn’t matter if the administration lied? Umm. Ooops. That will make the anti-Hillary ads if she runs in 2016. The New Media and conservative Republicans pounced. But more important has been Clinton’s acknowledgement as to how dangerous and widespread al-Qaeda is in Northern Africa. This is directly contrary to the Obama-Hagel meme that we have decimated al-Qaeda and really don’t need that big military any more. Clinton in essence just told the president his idea that we have ‘peace in our time’ is crazy talk. Perhaps Clinton should be brought in as a witness in the Chuck Hagel secretary of defense hearings. By the Republicans.”

#2. National Review’s Eliana Johnson

”Clinton’s dismissal of the impetus behind the attack also stands in stark contrast to nearly everything senior officials of the Obama administration said publicly about it in the days that followed, including both the president and Clinton herself — that is, when the administration was blaming the attack on a YouTube video. In opening remarks for a strategic dialogue with Morocco — video below — which occurred four days after the Benghazi attack, Clinton said, ‘There is no justification, none at all, for responding to this video with violence. We condemn the violence that has resulted in the strongest terms.’ The idea that the cause of the attack should now take a backseat to other concerns seems all too convenient. “

#1. Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey

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“Well, gosh, I can think of a few reasons why it matters. First, it mattered enough for the Obama administration to send Susan Rice to five different Sunday talk shows to insist that the sacking was a spontaneous demonstration of anger over a months-old YouTube video, while saying that there was ‘no evidence’ that it was a terrorist attack.[...] It also matters because Barack Obama at the time had been bragging about crippling al-Qaeda while on the campaign trail.[...] There’s also the matter of Barack Obama’s intervention in Libya and his undeclared war against Moammar Qaddafi.”

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Comments (98)

mikegrv8
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:30pm
The questions remain: Why was the ambassador in Benghazi in the first place; why was he meeting with the Turkish Pro-Counsel? The president gave the order to stand-down! Generals are fired or quit. Pertinent questions are not being asked and stonewalling is the SOP for even the soft questions. Is there a protocol that when personnel are questioned by congress that they are provided with those questions beforehand? Hillary seemed to reference pages in her notes readily as she responded.

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- mingfurecon
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 12:47am
  They were running guns through Turkey to help the rebels. This administration is the most criminally corrupt in the history of this nation. They think they can get away with murder.
  
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- jblaze
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:33am
  It was staged! Every one of the Dems questions a has been played out!
  
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- Enchanted
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:12am
  a question I have is why would hillary clinton send a man who was gay into an environment where his presence would be considered a provocation? talk about poking the bear. (no pun intended)
  
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- americansfightingforcommonsense
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:00pm
  They needed to hand over a diplomat that could be traded for the Blind Shake! Chris Stevens was to be that trade. Then they could say that it was a necessary deal made to get back an Ambassador. He wasn’t supposed to die, they just couldn’t get him out of they house soon enough before he died from the smoke.He was not shot he was suffocated.
  
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iwan60
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:20pm
What difference does it make? Hilliary is an incredibly brilliant woman. She asked a profoundly great question. She’s absolutely right. It made no difference at all. Not now and not at the time. That’s the question that should have been asked to Obama when they excused the actions of the terrorists by blaming the video. She’s right. Think about it. What difference did it make on why our embassy was attacked and why our people were killed.
Yet instead of a response to the action or ordering a counter attack to try to rescue our people, they acted liked alqueada’s mouth piece and condemned a video over and over again, for almost 2 weeks on various news programs. Hilliary is right but she asked the question too late. They essentially justified the attack by blaming the video over and over again. The real question now is why did they spend so much time trying to justify the action of the terrorists? Why did it matter? Were they saying that some how the attack was justified because a private citizen posted a video on youtube?
It seemed to matter a great deal to the administration then. Why I wonder?

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- tyuchic
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:33pm
  what difference does it make? the difference is you, Hillary (“named after Sir Edmund Hillary”, before the fact), tried to convince us at the initial outset what the difference was, by saying it was one thing when it was something else, and now you want to say what difference does it make? that’s what we’re trying to figure out you self-aggrandizing, loathsome piece of tag-along want-a-be, poltroon! you’ve been a lying, self-promoting, despicable human being who takes enjoyment out of stepping on people since you were at rose law firm, and you’ve only gotten worse! you’ll get away with this, like everything else you’ve gotten away with in the past, but at least a good percentage of people know what a low-life you really are. live with it. we have to. let the others bask in your make-believe after-glow.
  
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- OlderCowGirl
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:21pm
  In the months prior to the 9/11 Benghazi attack, Hillary was partying it up royal instead of being a professional Secretary of State. She got lax. Hillary lived and breathed on power. She got lazy. Hillary partied and left the dirty work to her staff.
  
  Also, in the months prior to the 9/11 Benghazi attack, Obama was golfing and vacationing and campaigning for 2nd term. And he also got lax and lazy. Visits to the “View”…hob-nobbing with Hollywood…etc.
  
  Then the enemy does what it always does: rub salt into the wound….another day of 9/11. In my opinion: both the President and Sec. of State began blaming someone else, anyone…
  
  It’s called “redirect the attention to something/someone else”. But the very vain, egotistical, prideful people don’t realize that we’re not that dumb. We know the truth. And you will get away with it.
  
  But God does not forget. And neither do we. REMEMBER BENGHAZI !!
  
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brigott
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:53pm
What difference does it make if a mentally disturbed thug takes a gun into an elementary school and kills students and teachers? Apparently enough difference that we suddenly need to strip American citizens of their Constitutional rights.

What difference does it make if our citizens are savaged and brutally murdered in Libya? It should make the difference between an inept administration’s re-election and their being thrown out on their ears.

My blood boiled when I saw her “what difference does it make” response!

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- braddock66
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:24pm
  And MSNBC is bragging that the republicans were put in their place. And how they attacked the most popular political figure in the country. AND LOST!!!! WOW WHAT a DIFFERENCE!!!
  
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- Silversmith
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:57pm
  Why is this administration still in office? All of this, in comparison, makes Nixon’s transgressions look pretty tame, and yet he was impeached. So who is sitting on their hands? Get moving!!
  
  Silversmith
  
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dumpsterdog
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:49pm
why does she think that the meeting was called?

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ghostlyspirit
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:46pm
I wish i was there just taken a stroll down the park or where ever it dont matter. then Hillary of all people sits right on the bench with me and I thought the God’s handed me heaven they truly were pleased with me at this day cuz i took this gift sitting by me and told her What Difference Does It Make ? she shook her fist and told me Four people died and I said dont speak you pig . The God’s covered the sky dark then opened and I said to Hillary Now Five are dead !! I said to myself as i thanked the God’s for restoring my faith. What Difference Does It Make ? Right? Bless the Four that matter and never will I forget what happened to such beautiful people and Great Americans !!! lol
http://WWW.GODANDSPIRIT.COM

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Hepcat
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:40pm
Does it matter if the first 9-11 attack was by Islamic terrorists or just some guys out for a plane ride?

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cassandra
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:38pm
XYLL get off this site we like comments from people that have brains

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RaydocX
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:18pm
Madam Secretary… the how and the why matter.
if you honestly expect to include in your ‘possibles’ a group out walking around as cause, you may be trying to prove you are inept and unable to think critically, but that does not absolve you and the administration of guilt in at least the later deaths of the last two Americans…

go out to an army training base, madam secretary… watch how a morter is deployed and utilized. it is a Crew Served Weapon… even if you have one laying around at the house, you cannot just use it because you feel like blowing up the safeway down the street. it’s presence is clear proof of an organized attack, and your choosing to ignore that renders you incompetent to serve as secretary (or president), or demonstrates you are LYING to hide a larger underlying truth that would be damaging to you or the Administration.

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@leftfighter
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:16pm
Anyone know where Shrillary made her bones in the Democrat party? Prosecuting an administration before Congress over the cover-up of a scandal that took place in the run-up to an election.

That said, here’s another answer that should make at least the top 10 list…

If it mattered that an Administration lied to the American people about a minor break-in in which no damage was done and no lives were lost but a law was boken, why does it not matter this time, when damage *was* done, lives *were* lost, laws *were* (arguably) broken …but you’re the one in the hot seat?

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- brigott
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:47pm
  You said it good!
  
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- c.parker
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 6:29am
  Just so! Wish this would have been asked. Maybe some reporter somewhere will grow a set and ask it? I know, just a dream.
  
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thegoldman
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:57pm
Now you know how they think, Just a another bump in the road…

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Golivthere
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:47pm
Well, I can think of at least 4 good reasons, Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith, and Ambassador Chris Stevens are why it matters. This administration left them in a war zone with no support. They let them die, just as surely as they pulled the trigger themselves. Then they BLATANTLY lied to the American people and the world. And Mrs. Clinton has the audacity to say “What difference… does it make now?”. It definitely makes a difference to the families; they have a right to know why their loved ones perished. We failed them. Obviously, the lives of those killed were all expendable to this administration. And undoubtably, so are the lives of every other American. There is no room for compassion, empathy, understanding, or common sense within a narcissistic entity. These people just don’t care. They are all treasonous. There is NO excuse. May God Bless the USA! We need Him now more than ever.

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- Sgt_Rock
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 1:12am
  It makes a difference to the families of those men as well. Those families have every right to know why their loved ones were abandoned, left as fodder for a failed strategy. A strategy based on a naivete of the threat and the true motivations of an enemy they refuse to recognize or identify as THE ENEMY. These people are incompetent fools, re-elected by fools.
  
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melbach
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:41pm
While the “difference” of whether the Benghazi attack was due to a protest or terror attack would not change the outcome for the ambassador and the three other Americans who died in Benghazi, it does matter whether the rest of us can believe the prepared and coordinated explanations our government leaders provide following such tragic events. If you can’t tell us the truth for security reasons, tell us that. Don’t insult us by spinning a tale of a video protest and then using our tax dollars for a PR campaign in the middle east to denounce the video and its now imprisoned maker. Truth matters! In addition, it is very disturbing that the administration seems to have trouble properly accessing the difference between terror and protest. With the help of the media, they are quick to insinuate that seniors at a Tea Party rally as potential terrorists, yet cannot bring themselves to call out the real terrorists. So, yeah, it makes a difference–both from a trust standpoint and a security concern.

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Tigress1
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:41pm
Don’t you just love the authoritarian manner that Hillary responds to the questions? It’s almost as if SHE is in charge of the hearings! Now granted a hearing is not a trial, but does every question have to be preceded with a “thank you, blah, blah, blah” or other niceties? If she didn’t LIE there wouldn’t be a need for a hearing! We would already know what happened at Benghazi.

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- Joe_The_Patriot
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:22pm
  I wonder how many chap sticks the democrats went through while kissing her @$$.. It was disgusting..
  She really ran her mouth and said alot of words without saying anything AT ALL…. Her answers were mind numbing……
  The administration is going to get away with arms trading and treason… The Teflon Don doing it “Chicago Style”…… Maybe that anti american sensation PSY can write him a song.. Then they can teach the kids the Obama Dance in school…..
  
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- @leftfighter
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:25pm
  “Now granted a hearing is not a trial…”
  
  No, but the answers at one can easily lead to the other.
  
  She should know. She was on the team that drafted Nixon’s Articles of Impeachment.
  
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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:30pm
This administration has been hiding behind lies from the day Benghazi happened…there is so much more to this deception than many of us could even think of. The cover-up remains deeper than Watergate could have EVER been and the consequences to America will be much greater than we know, but will soon come to fruition. Skuttlebut is that this will lead to WW III and this government is complicit in its manipulation. Dear God…

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:30pm
As usual, no one will EVER be held responsible for the Slaughter of four Americans in Benghazi. This is nothing more than shear entertainment and a chance for Politicians to jab at the other side. It’s all meaningless.
No one in Washington cares. No one in Washington has the Grapes to stand up to the Communists in charge. Maybe because they are ALL Communists.
I really don’t care what happens anymore.

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Tri-ox
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:28pm
Clinton and obama need to be taken into custody, and be charged with TREASON immediately.

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Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:27pm
She’s right; it doesn’t matter. Whatever caused the attack doesn’t affect how you react to it once it happens. The President and Secretary of State handled the situation properly, without overreacting in a manner that would have endangered our other vulnerable personnel all around the world, and we should be grateful for their wisdom. As for lying about it afterwards, so what if they did? The President and Secretary of State are American citizens who enjoy the same right of free speech as the rest of us. With the usual few exceptions like slander and fraud, they can lie about anything they damn well please.

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- HappyHarriet
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:40pm
  Really? HOW something happens doesn’t affect HOW you react/respond/regroup? What kind of logic are you using? I surely hope you do not have to do much thinking or problem solving, or analytical synthesis in your job, although from your convoluted, half-brained post, I’m thinking you may be one of those socialists who are on the government take, complete with your ObamaPhone.
  
  Please consider looking up a few online sources for “how to know logic when you meet it” or “how to assimilate facts and reach conclusions” – it would be good for your soul to partake of some intellectual support other than MSM sound clips.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:43pm
  Fruit punch Koolaide with grain alcohol maybe? Lay off it.
  
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- Fat Hubie
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:43pm
  They surely can lie all they want, just not on my dime.
  
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- Mudd
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:45pm
  You actually believe that? Man, Dick Nixon could have used a person like you a few years back, when this kind of thing seemed to matter.
  
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- Tri-ox
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:48pm
  @XYLLIAB_OF_THE_ZNARGHH – “The President and Secretary of State handled the situation properly…”
  
  Uh, you cannot be serious – obama gave a STAND DOWN order which led directly to the deaths of four Americans, and you think he acted properly? Hillary Clinton refused multiple requests for security at the Embassy compound – and you think she acted properly?
  
  You may be “grateful for their wisdom”- which allowed four Americans to be slaughtered, but you are certainly in the minority.
  
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- Mudd
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:50pm
  HAPPYHARRIET (and everyone else). You should read Ominous Paralles by Leonard Peikoff if you want to know why logic doesn’t matter to these kind of people. It isn’t an accident.
  
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- Canada_Goose
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:54pm
  They didn’t lie, recall that the DNI and DCI both signed off Ms. Rice’s talking points.
  So if the POTUS and State lied than whole intelligence community lied.
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:15pm
  Mudd
  Mr. Nixon and his henchmen lied about a criminal act. That has always been one of the exceptions to the right to speak lies. The President and Secretary of State failing to do something that you think they should have is not a criminal act, so they have a right to lie about it all they want, if that’s even what they did.
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:20pm
  Tri-ox
  There is no reason to believe that any action that the President or Secretary of State could have taken would have saved the lives of any of those four people. At a time when many of our embassies were under attack, in all cases but this one by unruly mobs of civilians, ordering a counterattack could have aggravated the situation in a way that would have led to the death of many more than four people.
  
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- RaydocX
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:23pm
  Bix, you are wrong… the sitaution was not handled… it was allowed to spin out of control, and then hidden away…
  
  There were SEVEN HOURS from the first attack until the last two Americans died… in that time local authorities, nearby local troops, or American intervention COULD have bee provided, and evidence indicates the surviving Americans and the last 2 to die expected it was coming, but they WERE LEFT TO DIE by your President and his henchman, Hillary.
  
  By your attitude, we need not have provided any help to the victims of Hurricaine Sandy… simply watching to see how it turned out and letting the survivors fend for themselves would have been appropriate.
  
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- RaydocX
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:35pm
  xylaphone…
  the hearing is an under oath situation.
  freedom of speech is not a license to lie…
  or if you postulate that lying is still ‘acceptable’ (a reprehensible attitude), there is the reality of consequence… at the least contempt of Congress. that’s not the sort of label for a wannabe Presidential candidate.
  
  i think you are taking your empathy for her hitting her head too far.
  
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- cassandra
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:37pm
  what planet are you from ????? it’s OK if the pres and hillary lied to the American people ? go back under your rock
  
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- Farmhand82
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:19pm
  Wow. I’m honestly going to save that I think because the whole “so what if the Pres/sec. State lied? Freedom of speech!” defense is priceless. First off, strawman. We’re arguing it is immoral and disgusting, not that lying is necessarily illegal (though it is at a congressional hearing). Second, it really doesn’t bother you at all that your government will flat out lie to you, especially in a way that seems suspiciously more about covering their asses than about national security? You sir or madam must hate living in a nation with a representative government. I bet you are one of those people who complain endlessly about how “Bush lied.” I doubt you were touting freedom of speech then.
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:31pm
  RaydocX
  Lying to Congress is illegal, but there is no proof that Mrs. Clinton has done any such thing. Some of the people commenting here seem to attach some importance to the irrelevant question of whether she has or has not lied to the public, as is her right.
  
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- Mudd
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:29pm
  XYLLIAB
  A lie to the American people – who employ the government – is a lie. It doesn’t matter if the lie is intended to cover up a criminal act, such as breaking and entering or something that “simply” resulted in the death of four people. A lie is a lie, a cover up is a cover up, I don’t care if it comes from a democrat or a republican.
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 2:13am
  Mudd
  Yeah, a lie is a lie, but people are allowed to lie when they aren’t under oath. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to vote for them, but there’s really nothing else anybody can do about it, so it’s pretty much a waste of time to have some big investigation just to determine if somebody did something that they are allowed to do.
  
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- OccamsSword
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 3:26am
  You need to be stripped have a pork chop hung around your neck and thrown to the wolves… that is basiclly what Hillary and Barry did to those guys…see how you like it …by the way you are an idiot.
  
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- smudgercat17
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 1:07pm
  Supposedly, NOT in front of a Congressional committee, UNDER OATH. Go away.
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:32pm
  Kinda like the lie, “Did you have sex with that woman?”
  
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trueamerican40
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:25pm
What is a liberal, you might ask? The Proletariats (social liberals) of Poland in the mid 1930′s knew that her neighbor Germany was building an immense military machine bent on conquest. What did they do? They sacked and reduced the size of their defenses and installed cavalry units (horses). They also cow-tailed to Hitler and even apologized to him when faced with false accusations. We all know what happened next. Open up and say ahh! America.

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Canada_Goose
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:20pm
Talk about 5 right wing straw man arguments.

The question the aptly named Mr. Johnson was asking was why State did not question the embassy evacuees immediately after the attack and communicate (via Ms. Rice) that attacks were the result of protests. To which Mr. Clinton replied that the FBI was already questioning the embassy evacuees and State did not want to interfere. State now acknowledges that attackers were terrorist’s militants and not protesters.

So what difference does it make at this time since we know the initial story was wrong?
State was trying to get information in real time without access to the people who were actually there.

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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:53pm
  It’s not whether the initial story was wrong. It’s whether the initial story was a deliberate lie.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:57pm
  Loosey Goosey
  Where did the buck stop?
  
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- Canada_Goose
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:15pm
  In order to deliberately lie you first need to know the facts which clearly they did not. They were trying to cobble together a plausible timeline of events from disparate bits of raw intel.
  
  Everyone knows the first draft is either always incomplete or entirely wrong.
  
  It doesn’t matter, most people here think that the POTUS and State are inherently evil and their first instinct was to concoct a cover up.
  
  But why would you do that if the cover-up inevitably falls apart in a matter of weeks and the election was two months away. The only way a cover up would even be possible woulbe be if State was able control the flow of information, but this happened in a chaotic environment in a foreign country which is basically just slightly above a failed state.
  
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- RaydocX
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:38pm
  you can deliverately lie without knowing the facts… confabulation is lying irregardless of the facts.
  
  as to ‘straw man’ the entire ‘it was caused by a video’ is the ULTIMATE straw dog argument, as is the ‘guys out walking around’ offered up today… true in Egypt and Libya today you might wander about with an RPG… NOT with a mortar.
  
  Straw dog arguments are the argument for the left when the facts of an issue are taken out of the confusion of the emotion and spin the Left uses to obfuscate and are plainly and simply assessed… it’s a critcial thinking tool, so it’s understanding, goose you are opposed to it… it torpedoes your position.
  
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- Farmhand82
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:31pm
  The president was still blaming the video almost two weeks later. You’re right, there may indeed be some initial confusion for a day or two but not two weeks. The reason it matters is either they were seeking to cover up something that would have looked bad on the eve of an election or they are just utterly incompetent and were willing to jump the gun and blame the video and a spontaneous demonstration without having “all the facts.” Neither of them look good. Nixon was impeached (well technically he resigned) for lying about a far less serious incident than this.
  
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- Canada_Goose
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:01pm
  Hate to break it to you , but the video did play a role in the attacks, yes it’s true there was no protest and it was an organize terror attached, but the video did contribute.
  
  Sept. 13: NY Times: “Turmoil Over Contentious Video Spreads.” The New York Times reported on September 13 that “deadly outrage in the Arab world over an American-made video insulting Islam’s founder” had “spread to at least half a dozen places across the Middle East,” including Iran, Yemen, Tunisia, Sudan and Pakistan. The article also reported that “at least five Yemenis were killed” when hundreds of protesters stormed the American Embassy in Sana, Yemen
  
  An October 15 New York Times article reported that the people who attacked the U.S. compound in Benghazi said that the anti-Muslim film prompted the attack. Furthermore, Libyans “who witnessed the assault and know the attacks” also said the video was the catalyst for the attack.
  
  Google Blocked Access To Inflammatory Video In Egypt And Libya; Government Authorities Blocked The Video In Singapore And Iran. The New York Times reported on September 13 that Google, the owner of YouTube, had blocked access to the anti-Muslim video in Egypt and Libya, and Agence France-Presse reported on September 20 that Google had blocked access to the video in Singapore. CNN later reported that government officials in Iran had blocked access to the video, while the Associated Press reported officials in Turkey planned to do so.
  
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- SLAPTHELEFT
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:07am
  It doesnt matter because obama cant bring a bunch of children to stand around him while he signs another executive order. It doesnt matter because liberals dont really care about anybody elses life, contrary to the justification for their spending and policies. It doesnt matter because liberals never demand that their reps tell the truth.
  
  It really doesnt matter because its a coordinated effort by CAIR, ISNA, and the MB to enact new anti islam laws in our country in order to promote their religion and the intolerance of ours. And the elected liberals are all too happy to partner with these subversive groups in order to take out their true enemies- Conservative, God fearing, freedom loving, gun toting, flag waving red blooded Americans.
  
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moreteaplease
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:18pm
I’d like to know why it was weeks before the FBI was permitted to even enter the compound to conduct their investigation and then once they did, they were there only for one day…in that morning and out by sundown. Maybe because, like the Vince Foster investigation, evidence had to be disposed of first and the outcome already determined for them before they even put foot to soil…the rest was window dressing.

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Max jones
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:13pm
Let’s see…..leaders with minds of children……Globalist socialism…..world powers facing financial collapse…..normalization of homosexuality …..>50.000.000 sanctioned abortions in 40 years……7 billion people on a sleigh ride to Armageddon…..wow…..Thank the Lord, OUR God, for the heads up!!

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thorkyl
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:09pm
The real reason is that she is so pompus that she thinks We the People are her sheep and will do as told. Either that or O ordered her to fall on her pencil (she does not believe in weapons)

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forthepeople
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:06pm
More rope ….and someday they will be Hung !

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- OniKaze
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:22pm
  Pardon… It’s “Hanged”….
  
  People are Hanged, (only MEN can be “hung” which has nothing to do with execution ;-) )…
  
  My Old H.S. English teacher railed me for this, and I have never forgotten…
  
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John.Galt
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:02pm
Nobody cares. Apathy rules. And soon millions will die. ENJOY THE CARNAGE, ALL YOU USEFUL IDIOTS!

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- Max jones
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:20pm
  John Galt…..Billions die…….What makes you think you’re not a useful idiot? You have some kind of ‘time machine’ or what? You are in the middle of it all, just like everyone else…..There are a lot of people who see what’s going on….what have you got to say? What are you doing or planning…..I think you are displaying a greater ignorance of the truth than your “useful Idiots”. Arrogance, in the face of disaster……
  
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Chuck7884
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:00pm
The Reason why is Governmet is held to a higher standard.

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- barber2
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:13pm
  CHUCK: Unfortunately, not this crew. They are steeped in Rules For Radicals which adheres to a very different code of conduct and ethics.
  
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- BARRYS_BEARD
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:18pm
  “a very different code of conduct and ethics”? Tell me about it.
  
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