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http://nypost.com/2014/05/03/benghazi-mess-points-to-hillary-and-possibly-criminal-cover-up/ (http://nypost.com/2014/05/03/benghazi-mess-points-to-hillary-and-possibly-criminal-cover-up/)
Hillary Clinton should be worried as Benghazi coverup unravels
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
May 3, 2014 | 1:17pm
Make it go away!
That was the message of the Obama administration and their friends in the media for the past two years, and now we know why: Benghazi is the scandal they always denied it was.
Thanks to a lawsuit by watchdog group Judicial Watch, the administration last week released correspondence about the terrorist attack in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 that left US ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others dead.
‘We brought the #Benghazi scandal back to the forefront this week. Get the Update: jwatch.us/jE41Yf #tcot #tlot http://t.co/8kIrFrPvOr—
Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) May 02, 2014’
One memo, from Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security director for strategic communications, shows how the administration was trying to spin the attack as something other than their own strategic failures.
“Reinforce the president and administration’s strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges,” he wrote to UN Ambassador Susan Rice. He instructed her to “underscore” that the events in Benghazi were “protests . . . rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”
Beyond the callousness of this message, and the fact that officials already knew this was the work of terrorists, that this document is just coming out now shows the depth of the administration’s cover-up.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/377040/hillarys-unconscionable-benghazi-lie-mona-charen