The Issue: The State Department’s new report on Benghazi, citing administrative and security failures.
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The independent report on Benghazi is in, and guess what — neither Secretary of State Hillary Clinton nor President Obama did anything wrong (“Hillary in Hiding,” Editorial, Dec. 19).
The murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans occurred just before the presidential election, but with the help of the lap-dog media, Obama covered it up.
Clinton has a potential 2016 presidential campaign to consider, and a connection to the Benghazi disaster would ruin any future suggestion that she was the greatest secretary of state in history.
What really happened in Benghazi was that four Americans were sacrificed to further the Obama campaign’s lie that the president’s policies had the terrorists on the run.
Obama lied, and Americans died.
Steve Heitner
Port Jefferson Station
Obama, Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice see no terror, hear no terror and speak no terror.
Guess this was just another “workplace shooting,” like Fort Hood.
Tom Matiska
Wilkes Barre, Pa.
The best comment I heard about the Benghazi report: Mistakes were made, but by no one.
Bill Keegan
Manahawkin, NJ
Before we automatically give Clinton a free pass on Benghazi and anoint her as Obama’s successor, let’s look at the record. She failed to protect the ambassador to Libya from a violent attack and then lied about it.
Now Clinton conveniently cracks her head and gets a concussion, making it impossible for her to give testimony in front of Congress under oath.
Has anyone seen the X-rays?
In this day and age, why she can’t give testimony through the use of a conference call is beyond me.
Couldn’t she give an affidavit under oath — the same way her husband, Bill, testified during his impeachment?
As first lady, she was embroiled in scandal after scandal, from her Whitewater dealings to her law firm’s records.
Enough already.
Charlie Honadel
Staten Island
If there is anyone out there who still thinks Obama and Clinton didn’t cover up details about Benghazi, they aren’t really paying attention.Skip Kneuer
Lindenhurst
An independent probe into the Benghazi attack states that the Obama administration misled Americans by blaming it on a YouTube video when, all along, it was terrorists.
How could the investigators not recommend any disciplinary action?
The outcome is that Obama gets named Time’s person of the year, Clinton gets nomination predictions for 2016 and UN Ambassador Susan Rice gets thrown under the bus.
John Van Acken
Bellerose