You can bet the following documents will be a part of the House Committee's report on Benghazi, just in time for the next election cycle. Hillary can run, but she cannot hide.

Editor's notes: all highlights (bold red or black) and paragraph highlights (i.e. "Email No. 1," etc) are mine.   

New Documents Blow Lid off Obama/Clinton Benghazi Scandal

I've always believed that the Benghazi cover-up was about two presidential campaigns:  Barack Obama's reelection campaign and Hillary Clinton's nascent [or "just coming into existence" - blog editor] presidential campaign.

Why else would Hillary Clinton personally send out lies about Benghazi within hours, and then keep on pushing these lies until the truth could no longer be ignored.  The truth about an attack by an al Qaeda group that killed our ambassador and three other brave Americans in the days before Obama's reelection would not only have put Obama at risk of losing, but also would have potentially dashed the hopes of his successor-in-waiting, Hillary Rodham Clinton.  

 

The desperation by Obama, Clinton, and their political teams must have been potent.  It was so potent that they - rather than admitting to the Islamist conflagration they caused in Libya by ousting and killing Gadhafi - preferred to ignore pleas for increased security from Ambassador Stevens; to abandon him and his colleagues to rampaging terrorists; refuse to follow up with force against those who attacked us; and to lie to the American people about the nature of the attack.

Rather than admit that it was a planned attack by a terrorist group in league with al Qaeda, the Obama/Clinton machine knowingly put out the lie that the killings were the result of a spontaneous demonstration in response to an obscure Internet video supposedly offensive to radical Islamists.  The message: don't blame us - blame those who offend Islamists (conservatives, Republicans, etc.).  Indeed, rather than sending our military to eliminate the enemy in Libya, the Obama administration arrested the poor sap who made the offending video. Strong stuff you might think.  But the most recent documents forced out of the State Department will make you think I'm being too kind to the Benghazi betrayers controlling the Executive Branch. On February 11, 2015, JW struck smoking-gun gold in another cache of documents we forced out of the State Department.  The documents show that top aides for then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, including her then-chief of staff Cheryl Mills, knew from the outset that the Benghazi mission compound was under attack by armed assailants tied to a terrorist group.  The documents we've extracted from the Obama administration only through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State ((No. 1:14-cv-01511).  Unsurprisingly, the documents make no reference to a spontaneous demonstration or Internet video, except in an official statement issued by Hillary Clinton. The JW lawsuit that uncovered this material focused on Mrs. Clinton's involvement in the Benghazi scandal: Any and all records concerning, regarding, or related to notes, updates, or reports created in response to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S, Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. This request includes but is not limited to, notes, taken by then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton or employees of the Office of the Secretary of State during the attack and its immediate aftermath. Mrs. Clinton had said she took notes on Benghazi for her recent book but suggested no one could see them.  She isn't above the law.  Congress is asleep, the media is a cheerleader, so hence, our lawsuit.  Email No. One  We haven't yet gotten Hillary's notes, but the chain of internal emails we did get [on Feb 11 of two weeks ago - blog editor] are extraordinary and track the events surrounding the terrorist attack in real time. On September 11, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Maria Sand (who was then a Special Assistant to Mrs. Clinton) forwarded an email from the State Department's Operations Center entitled "U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi is Under Attack (SBU) [Sensitive But Unclassified]" to Cheryl Mills (then-Chief of Staff), Jacob Sullivan (then-Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy), Joseph McManus (then-Hillary Clinton's Executive Assistant), and a list of other Special Assistants in the Secretary's office: The Regional Security Officer reports the diplomatic mission is under attack. Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM [Chief of Mission] personnel are in the compound safe haven. The 17th of February militia is providing security support. This email was sent about 30 minutes after the terrorist attack began!  [and had to be the first announcement of the event.  Instead of responding as if the Administration gave a damn,  Obama and Hillary IMMEDIATELY began working on a statement that would effectively refute the facts, and,  sadly,  deny the Benghazi Embassy any assistance whatsoever - blog editor].    Email No. 2  (all times are EST) On September 11, 2012, 4:38 PM, State Department Foreign Service Officer Lawrence Randolph forwarded Mills, Sullivan and McManus an email from Scott Bultrowicz, who was the former director of the Diplomatic Security Service (ousted following review of the attack), with the subject line, "Attack on Benghazi 09112012": DSCC received a phone call from [REDACTED] in Benghazi, Libya initially stating that 15 armed individuals were attacking the compound and trying to gain entrance. The Ambassador is present in Benghazi and currently is barricaded within the compound. There are no injuries at this time and it is unknown what the intent of the attackers is. At approximately 1600 DSCC received word from Benghazi that individuals had entered the compound. At 1614 RSO advised the Libyans had set fire to various buildings in the area, possibly the building that houses the Ambassador [REDACTED] is responding and taking fire.  [And what is the "DSCC?"  Well,  it's not the State Department.  Rather this memo was sent to Democrat political headquarters.  "DSCC" is defined as the following:  "The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States Senate. It is the only organization solely dedicated to electing Democrats to the United States Senate," proving,  of course,  that this developing disaster was being viewed as a political matter,  first,  and not as the historical matter it would be.  Understand that the politics of the matter almost immediately,  became the central concern,  and,  much more so for Hillary than Barack Obama - blog editor]  Email No.3 in this report  Nearly seven hours later, at 12:04 am, on September 12, Randolph sends an email with the subject line "FW: Update 3: Benghazi Shelter Location Also Under Attack" to Mills, Sullivan, and McManus that has several updates about the Benghazi attack: I just called Ops and they said the DS command center is reporting that the compound is under attack again.  I am about to reach out to the DS Command Center. This email also contains a chain of other, earlier email updates: September 11, 2012 11:57 PM email:  "(SBU) DS Command reports the current shelter location for COM personnel in Benghazi is under mortar fire.  There are reports of injuries to COM staff."  September 11, 2012 6:06 PM (Subject: "Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack (SBU):  "(SBU) Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and call for an attack on Embassy Tripoli" September 11, 2012, 4:54 PM: "Embassy Tripoli reports the firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi has stopped and the compound has been cleared. A response team is on site to locate COM personnel." Email's No. 4, 11 hours after the first reports from the Embassy  Obama is in bed,  sleeping,  at this time,  before leaving for  a political speech in Las Vegas the next morning.  He is aasleep  because he is a) a cold blooded SOB and, b) because he and  Hillary believe they have their political futures protected [blog editor] The DOS emails reveal the first official confirmation of the death of Ambassador Stevens.  On September 12, 2012, 3:22 AM, Senior Watch Officer Andrew Veprek forwarded an email to numerous State Department officials, which was later forwarded to Cheryl Mills and Joseph McManus, with the subject line "Death of Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi": Embassy Tripoli confirms the death of Ambassador John C. (Chris) Stevens in Benghazi. His body has been recovered and is at the airport in Benghazi. Two hours later, Joseph McManus forwards the news about Ambassador Stevens' death to officials in the State Department Legislative Affairs office with instructions not to "forward to anyone at this point." Hillary's 5:30ish statement and first official lie: Despite her three top staff members being informed that a terrorist group had claimed credit for the attack, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, issued an official statement, also produced to Judicial Watch, claiming the assault may have been in "a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet."   Hillary's spokeswoman orders State Department not to talk to the press at mid-night, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 hours after the first attack. Cheryl Mills asks that the State Department stop answering press inquiries at 12:11 am on September 12, despite the ongoing questions about "Chris' whereabouts."  In an email to State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland, Jacob Kennedy, and Phillipe Reines (then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Strategic Communications and Senior Communications Advisor), Mills writes: Can we stop answering emails for the night Toria b/c now [that] the first one [Hillary Clinton's "inflammatory material posted on the Internet" statement] is hanging out there. Earlier in the chain of emails, Nuland told Mills, Sullivan, and Patrick Kennedy (Under Secretary of State for Management) that she "ignored" a question about Ambassador Steven's status and whereabouts from a CBS News reporter. Think about this:  Cheryl Mills, Hillary's top aide, would rather go to bed and let hang out  . . . .   the lie that Hillary Clinton put out about the attack than tell reporters the truth about the attack, which by that time had escalated to include mortar fire.  ________________________ [Note:  the JW article goes on,  but all of the following only supports the facts established in the above,  emails.  Obama went to bed hours before the deaths of the two surviving Navy Seals,  even before the announced death of Ambassador Stevens.  There is no greater display of presidential cowardice or State Department corruption than this incident.  It is my hope that the Benghazi House Committee reported,  will be ready by the end of the year.  It needs to be an effective part of 2016 election cycle,  in view of the fact that all Democrats supported this outrageous lie.   -  blog editor]   Back to the JW report:   Another top State Department official is eager to promote a statement from Rabbi David Saperstein, then-Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, a liberal group.  The September 2012 statement condemns "the video that apparently spurred these incidents. It was clearly crafted to provoke, offend, and to evoke outrage." Michael Posner, then-Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, forwarded the statement on September 12, 2012, to Wendy Sherman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and Jacob Sherman with the note: This is an excellent statement - our goal should be to get the Conference of Presidents, the ADL etc. to follow suit and use similar language.  (President Obama nominated the left-wing Rabbi Saperstein to be Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom in July 2014.  The U.S. Senate confirmed him in December 2014.  Posner, by the way, is another far left activist installed at State by Obama.) Also included in the documents are foreign press reports establishing the cause of Ambassador Chris Steven's death as being from asphyxiation. According to the reports, doctors attending Stevens said he could have been saved had he arrived at the hospital earlier.  The Obama administration has blacked out reactions from White House and top State Department officials to news stories published on September 14, 2012.  One of the stories quoted a visitor who criticized the lack of security at the Benghazi Special Mission Compound and another headlined, "America 'was warned of attack and did nothing.'"  What was the reaction of key Obama officials to this truth-telling about the media.  They don't want you to know.  If it were helpful, it would have been released to us! Other emails list well over 20 invited participants in a "SVTC" (secure video teleconference).  The invited participants for the September 14, 2012, early morning call include senior White House, CIA, and State Department political appointees.  Details about that call, which likely documents the cover-up operation on Benghazi, haven't been produced to Judicial Watch. These emails leave no doubt that Hillary Clinton's closest advisers knew the truth about the Benghazi attack from almost the moment it happened.  And it is inescapable that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knowingly lied when she planted the false story about "inflammatory material being posted on the Internet." The contempt for the public's right to know is evidenced not only in these documents, but also in the fact that we had to file a lawsuit in federal court to obtain them.  The Obama gang's cover-up continues to unravel, despite its unlawful secrecy and continued slow-rolling of information.  Congress, if it ever decides to do its job, cannot act soon enough to put Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, and every other official in these emails under oath. Islamic terrorists connected to al Qaeda attacked the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi on the evening of September 11, 2012.  U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith were both killed. Just a few hours later, a second terrorist strike targeted a different compound about one mile away. Two CIA contractors, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, were killed and 10 others were injured in the second attack. The families of those four men deserve truth and accountability. So do those who suffered injuries and others haunted by the attacks.   So as Congress is set to acquiesce in Obama's deadly nullification of our nation's immigration laws... So as the mainstream media spends all of its time covering presidential wanna-be's with all the depth of entertainment media coverage of the Oscars... So as "Rome burns," your Judicial Watch will, alone it seems, continue with the hard work of conducting government oversight in a city otherwise bereft of it.  The Benghazi Four deserve no less. We expect more Benghazi documents over the next few months, so stayed tuned for more disclosures.   Until next week...  Tom Fitton President

Judicial Watch Lawsuit Success Forces Congress to Act on Benghazi (from my mail box).

32 share Updated for Editor's Notes: I publish these emailed updates from Judicial Watch,  as often as possible.  At the bottom of this post is a live link (I hope) that allows you to make a donation.  "Money walks while BS only talks" - as some say  (or, maybe that is only my personal  colloquialism) .  I have highlighted (in red) the real meat of this review.   Understand that JW is able to "get things done" when others, including congress,  cannot or will not.  In the case of the Benghazi cover-up and the multitude of political "stunts" associated with the cover-up,  it is JW that was able to secure  unredacted (read "harshly edited") copies of emails that take this cover-up into the White House, and,  makes Hillary look all the worse,  as Secretary of State,  along the way.  We finally have a Select House Committee because of the work Judicial Watch has done.  5, 10, 15, 20 dollars would help, I'm sure.    There is no more critical effort, politically speaking,  than the recover of our nation from the hands of the Marxist collectivists who are, now,  our Overlords.    Judicial Watch Lawsuit Success Forces Congress to Act on Benghazi  Last week in the Weekly Update we reported to you that in our continuing efforts to pierce the Obama Benghazi cover-up we had finally found the smoking gun - and started an uproar. On Tuesday, April 29, we released 41 new Benghazi-related State Department documents, and the major media immediately began wall-to-wall coverage that put the Obama administration on the defensive and led to a special House Select Committee that promises to do a better job of exposing the full story of what happened before, during, and after the deadly attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi.

We released to the public a newly declassified email showing then-White House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodes and other Obama administration public relations officials attempting to orchestrate a campaign to portray the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being "rooted in an Internet video, and not a failure of policy."

They also colluded to try to convince the public of Obama's "strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges." Other documents show that State Department officials initially described the incident as an "attack" and a possible kidnap attempt. If you watched the ongoing, remarkable coverage of the Judicial Watch expose, you will recall that the Obama administration's first response was to trot out White House press secretary Jay Carney to tell reporters not to believe their own eyes. Yes, he intoned, of course there was a memo from Rhodes - but it was not about Benghazi:  "This document was explicitly not about Benghazi, but about the general dynamic in the Muslim world at the time," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. One blogger over at The Washington Post called the Obama response to the Judicial Watch material, "the worst excuse ever" And Fox News' Brett Bair termed it "surreal": This was a surreal answer from Jay Carney. Now, this is a prep session with Susan Rice, getting ready for five Sunday talk shows. This is three days after 9/11 when four Americans, including the American ambassador to Libya, are killed. Everybody in the chain has said it's a terrorist attack, everyone in the chain is saying there's no protest. And yet this email, if we're to believe Jay Carney at the White House, had nothing to do with Benghazi ... Now, that really strains credulity, I mean it is really out there. In an explosive op-ed in the Washington Times, Judge Andrew Napolitano gave Judicial Watch full credit for getting hold of critical material that the House of Representatives had been denied by a battened-down Obama White House: The White House responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the fearless private watchdog group Judicial Watch and turned over an email about constructing the appropriate narrative response to the tragedy at Benghazi written by Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to President Obama. When investigators from the House of Representatives realized that they had subpoenaed that email and not received it, they knew that there was far more to learn about the affair than met the eye. After we broke the story, House Speaker John Boehner reacted by calling for a House vote on forming a Select Committee on Benghazi. And I issued the following statement in support of his move: I applaud Speaker Boehner's decision today to finally move toward a Select Committee on Benghazi in response to revelations from Judicial Watch. This is long overdue. Judicial Watch is pleased that its work uncovered the "smoking gun" Rhodes email that led to this important step. Five House Committees have failed for nearly two years to get to the bottom of the Benghazi mess and have been trifled with by a stonewalling administration. We stand ready to assist Congress in any investigation of this important issue. Now, this is a long time coming. Judicial Watch had been part of a broad coalition calling for Boehner to appoint a select committee for some time.  It finally took our startling disclosure, tying the White House to Benghazi lies, to push Boehner over the edge.  Congress had been denied this document, and its investigation and subpoenas had been thwarted by the Obama gang. To his credit, the Speaker of the House had had enough. But, even with all of that, we still aren't finished.  We are pleased that there is now a Select Committee but if you know Judicial Watch, you also know that we aren't going to shut down our investigations and lawsuits just because a new congressional committee has been formed. And so our battle to expose the truth on Benghazi is only heating up.  Obama Administration Benghazi Cover Up Continues Once again, taking the lead in investigating Benghazi, Judicial Watch released a 17-page draft Vaughn Index document obtained from the U.S. Department of State on May 1, which reveals how the Obama administration is still refusing to provide the full details of how top officials arrived at the now-discredited talking points released to the public following the deadly assault on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, Libya. The new documents, containing more than 50 paragraphs of justifications to withhold information, were obtained in response our June 2013 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch, Inc., v. U.S. Department of State, (Civil Action No. 13-cv-00951 (EGS)) that uncovered the Benghazi White House talking points stunner. A Vaughn Index is a document prepared by a federal agency to justify and detail the withholding of material from public disclosure.  The State Department sent the Benghazi draft Vaughn Index to Judicial Watch on May 1, 2014, in accordance with a court order of October 1, 2013. The new document seeks to justify withholding internal Obama administration exchanges about the Benghazi attack dating back to a September 11, 2013, interagency email exchange containing redactions of an opinion offered on how to respond Benghazi attack updates. Though the State Department document repeatedly describes the material as "Unclassified" or "Sensitive But Unclassified," it nonetheless justifies scores of extensive redactions and exemptions. I'm going to go through this material in detail for you because much of the media will do its best provide cover for a White House already under attack because of Judicial Watch's revelations. The majority of material in the draft Vaughn Index document pertains to "various drafts, and comments related to the drafts, of a proposed letter from United States Mission to the United Nations (USUN) Ambassador Susan Rice in response to various Congressional inquiries regarding the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, Libya." The internal debate about the Rice response apparently continued until October 30, 2012. The material obtained by Judicial Watch included the following descriptions related to redacted or exempted material: [The Vaughan Index includes the following critical docs ~ blog editor]: •    Document C05415305 is a seven-page inter-agency e-mail exchange consisting of sixteen messages between State Department and other U.S. Government officials [Rhodes, Brennan, McDonough . . .] on September 27 and September 28, 2012, with an original subject line "FOX News: US officials knew Libya attack was terrorism within 24 hours, sources confirm." Subsequent e-mail subject lines were redacted. The document was originally designated SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. The Department withheld comments, opinions and assessments related to the formulation of a media strategy with respect to an ongoing sensitive matter under Exemption 5 pursuant to the deliberative process privilege...The information withheld under Exemption 5 is pre-decisional and deliberative in nature. The release of this information could reasonably be expected to chill the frank deliberations that occur when State Department and other U.S. Government officials are formulating public responses to address sensitive issues. The material is therefore exempt under FOIA Exemption 5, 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(5), pursuant to the deliberative process privilege." •    Document C05415752 is a one-page intra-agency e-mail exchange, consisting of three messages, that is dated September 11, 2012, and bears the subject line "UPDATE: Clashes at U.S. consulate in eastern Libyan city (Reuters)." The Department withheld an opinion offered in response to an update regarding the Benghazi attack under FOIA Exemption 5 pursuant to the deliberative process privilege. •    Document C05415756 is a four-page intra-agency e-mail exchange consisting of ten messages between State Department officials, dated September 11, 2012, with the subject line "Libya update from Beth Jones." [Jones was Assistant Secretary of State to Hillary Clinton at the time of the Benghazi attack.] •    Document C05415286 is a three-page intra-agency e-mail exchange, consisting of three messages, dated September 15, 2012, between various State Department personnel. This document ... gives a readout and comments on an internal video conference held by U.S. Government officials on September 15, which discussed the security situation in parts of the Islamic world in the wake of a controversial film on the Prophet Mohammed. •    Document C05415951 is a three-page intra-agency e-mail exchange, consisting of six messages, between State Department and other U.S. Government officials, dated September 28, 2012 and originally designated UNCLASSIFIED. The subject line of the first five messages is "Statement by the Director of Public Affairs for National Intelligence Shawn Turner on the intelligence related to the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya." •    Document C05415969 is a three-page intra-agency e-mail exchange, consisting of six messages, dated September 29-30, 2012. The subject line of the messages is "Benghazi Draft Response Letter- v14." The Department withheld candid comments, opinions and assessments made during internal strategy discussions related to the drafting of an official response letter under FOIA Exemption 5 pursuant to the deliberative process privilege. •    Documents C05416026 is a two-page intra-agency e-mail exchange, consisting of three messages, dated September 30, 2012. The subject lines of the three messages are, beginning with the earliest in time, "Press Recommendation on Libya," "Draft Response - Vl 7," and "[Redacted] version of the response letter." The State Department's withholdings make President Obama's transparency pledges seem like a joke. In one of his first official acts (on January 21, 2009, President Obama issued a memorandum on FOIA that includes the following: Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears. Nondisclosure should never be based on an effort to protect the personal interests of Government officials at the expense of those they are supposed to serve. In responding to requests under the FOIA, executive branch agencies (agencies) should act promptly and in a spirit of cooperation, recognizing that such agencies are servants of the public. All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open Government. The presumption of disclosure should be applied to all decisions involving FOIA. This document is a guide to the Obama administration's Benghazi cover up.  While Congress finally tries to get its act together, while the liberal media attacks, Judicial Watch will keep plugging away in court to get at the truth about Benghazi  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Until next week... Tom Fitton President

Media begins to circle the wagons around Hillary; evidence of a Hillary run for the presidency. But there is one issue that may keep her out of the race in 2016.

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Politico,  in an obvious attempt to humanize Hillary,  pushes the sympathy button as it tries to make the case for media bias against the woman.  

The single biggest factor preventing Hillary Clinton from running for president in 2016, Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush write, is the media. 

Her relationship with the fourth estate has indeed been a rocky one. The former first lady has been excoriated—called a killer, a conman, a calculating wife and a dysfunctional leader.

Poor dear.  The associated media-montage helps to make the point that the First Lady/Secretary/Senator is,  somehow,  just as maligned in the media,  as any politician   . . . . . .   this,  in an article that frames her time as Secretary of State as "historic."  

What is not mentioned,  not even hinted at,  is her failure to accomplish a single noteworthy achievement coupled with her role in the Benghazi cover-up.  

Susan Rice was sent out to lie about the "Benghazi video" and the role the Administration pretended it played in the deaths of four men, while Obama retired to his bedroom,  and rested up for a tough day of campaigning in Nevada.  Rice was sent out,  appearing on all major Sunday talk shows,  as most of you know.  She was chosen as the spokesman/defender of State policy when,  in fact,  this should have been a job for Hillary,  as head of the State Department.  

The fact that it was Rice,  not Hillary,  is implicit evidence of the explosive nature of this pending scandal.  Rice is protected by the WH,  serving as a member of the staff.  Hillary is/was the next best hope for continuing the presidency under a Progressive/World Without Borders advocate, and,  as such,  needed to set apart from this bit of political criminality.  

What does Hillary fear the most?  Benghazi.  As such,  her decision to run for the presidency has not, yet,  been made  - in my opinion.  She needs to know how this plays out,  and, at this very moment,  as I write this post,  Benghazi appears to have reached a boiling point,  but I have thought this before.  

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State Department can’t name one accomplishment from a Clinton-run initiative

April 22, 2014 | Joe Schoffstall at Capital City Process.com

Today, the State Department was asked to name one accomplishment from a Hillary Clinton-run initiative. They could not answer the question.

“One very brief one on the QDDR (Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review). Off the top of your head, can you identify one tangible achievement that the last QDDR resulted in?” AP Reporter Matthew Lee asks State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki.

Smoking Gun: Susan Rice WAS sent out - just 8 weeks before the 2012 elections - to underscore the notion that Benghazi was not the fault of "a broader failure of [Obama] policy."

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If this email is not the "smoking gun,"  forcing rational minds to the obvious conclusion that the WH policy,  as to Benghazi,  was all about crisis management with no concern for those killed or the truth of the slaughter.  A question that you will hear,  over and over,  again,  in the coming days,  is this:  "Why was this email redacted when first submitted to Congress?  Why did it take a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, to force this Administration into giving us the email as shown,  without whole sections blacked out (i.e. "redacted")?"

Carney was asked this question as he tried to manage the bad news of the morning.  

Carney's answer,  in today's press conference,  was to claim that the memo had nothing to do with Benghazi,  that somehow (in his feeble way of thinking), this allowed for the redactions.  Of course the memo was about Benghazi,  and,  reference to the video proves the point.   

Update:  The email excerpt (there are more than 20 paragraphs in this email) is taken from a larger email from Ben Rhodes,  a member of the National Security Council,  an agency reporting directing to the Administration.  This email,  takes the scandal and, its cover-up, into the WH.