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Hillary’s Lies and the Benghazi Attack

by Janet Phelan, from New Eastern Outlook

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gestures with Libyan soldiers upon her departure from Tripoli in Libya
Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony on Thursday certainly confirmed suspicions that she knew that the September 11, 2012 attack on the US Consulate was not a spontaneous protest by individuals enraged by an anti-Muslim video. Rather, as the emails she fought so fiercely to protect from public disclosure reveal, the attack was a pre-planned operation, involving fore- knowledge by the assailants of the whereabouts of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, among other details.
Clinton and the Obama Administration had attempted to place the blame for the attack, which resulted in the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans, on an unplanned protest, a “spontaneous mob.”
However, knowing that Clinton and other Administration officials lied extensively as to the genesis of the attack raises further questions. According to the Wall Street Journal, Clinton lied in order to “attempt to avoid blame for a terror attack in a presidential re-election year” The WSJ article maintains that the House Select Committee on Benghazi, chaired by Representative Trey Gowdy, has ferreted out the deception. “What that House committee did Thursday was finally expose the initial deception,” writes WSJ reporter Kimberley Strassel.
But it is hardly credible that Clinton chose to lie in an attempt to keep the Obama Administration from having a “terror attack” in an election year. The Middle East is now roiling in terror attacks and this is not news to anyone. If one looks at the attacks on US Embassies in 2012 alone, one will see that dozens of such attacks took place.

So why the spin on Benghazi?

The evidence at hand may suggest further motives, even less acceptable, for the Obama Administration’s propaganda concerning this deadly attack. It is possible that Clinton’s false statements were an attempt to cover up a US hand in the attacks.
It is known now, through the subsequent email and cable releases, that the responsibility for the attack was claimed by Ansar al Sharia, al Qaeda’s affiliate on the Arabian Peninsula. In an email to her daughter Chelsea, sent at 11:12 pm the night of the attack, Hillary Clinton wrote: “Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an Al Queda-like group.”
Not by a spontaneous mob, protesting a YouTube video. But by a group which has already been exposed as having deep and covert ties to the United States intelligence agencies.
Questions must be addressed as to why the Benghazi compound was not guarded. US Embassies abroad are known to be protected by an elite corps of US Marines. Known as the MSG (Marine Security Group), this elite group is pledged to protect US information and persons in Embassies and Consulates. According to the US State Department:

…the MSG role is essentially defensive in nature. They serve as an in-house deterrent to limited acts of violence, as well as a defense mechanism to large scale riots. The Marines are expected to delay entry by hostile elements long enough to permit destruction of classified material and to assist in protecting lives of the mission staff until host government forces arrive. They are authorized, under the command of the senior Foreign Service officer present, to use weapons to protect their own lives or mission staff from direct and immediate danger. The specific use of force is outlined in the MSG post guard orders.

The MSG was not, we now know, detailed at Benghazi. At the time of the attack, the MSG was apparently guarding the US Embassy in Tripoli.
Given the instability in Libya at that juncture, one has to ask why the Benghazi complex was left unguarded. The US and her allies had invaded Libya barely a year and a half prior, toppling Gaddafi’s government in 2011. The country was in upheaval. To leave Benghazi unguarded in the midst of the resultant turmoil seems like a very poor decision. Indeed, the Benghazi staff was aware of the potential for an attack.
Sean Smith, who died in the attack, had posted earlier in the day this prophetic message. Noticing that there was surveillance on the Embassy, he wrote:

assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.”

Other instances of instability in Benghazi in 2012 were culled from Wikipedia, and include the following:

  • In April 2012, two former security guards for the consulate threw an IED over the consulate fence; the incident did not cause any casualties. Just four days later, a similar bomb was thrown at a four-vehicle convoy carrying the United Nations Special Envoy to Libya, exploding just 12 feet from the UN envoy’s vehicle without injuring anyone.
  • In May 2012, an Al-Qaida affiliate calling itself the Imprisoned Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades claimed responsibility for an attack on the International Red Cross (ICRC) office in Benghazi. On August 6, the ICRC suspended operations in Benghazi. The head of the ICRC’s delegation in Libya said the aid group was “appalled” by the attack and “extremely concerned” about escalating violence in Libya
  • The Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman (BCOAR) released a video of what it said was its detonation of an explosive device outside the gates of the U.S. consulate on June 5, which caused no casualties but damaged the consulate’s perimeter wall, described by one individual as “big enough for forty men to go through.”[53] The Brigades claimed that the attack was in response to the killing of Abu Yahya al Libi, a Libyan al-Qaeda leader who had just died in an American drone attack, and was also timed to coincide with the imminent arrival of a U.S. diplomat. There were no injuries, but the group left behind leaflets promising more attacks against the U.S.
  • British ambassador to Libya Dominic Asquith survived an assassination attempt in Benghazi on June 10. Two British protection officers were injured in the attack when their convoy was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade 300 yards from their consulate office. The British Foreign Office withdrew all consular staff from Benghazi in late June.
  • On June 18, 2012, the Tunisian consulate in Benghazi was stormed by individuals affiliated with Ansar Al-Sharia Libya, allegedly because of “attacks by Tunisian artists against Islam.”

If Benghazi were that hot, and the Obama administration, for reasons that have not been made clear to the public, hung that compound out to dry, Clinton might have a lot more to worry about than simply lying to the public about the attacks in order to protect her President in an election year.
The House Select Committee on Benghazi has more probing to do. Let’s hope the committee members have the courage it takes to complete the job.


Janet C. Phelan, investigative journalist and human rights defender that has traveled pretty extensively over the Asian region, an author of a tell-all book EXILE, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

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George Meredith MD
George Meredith MD
Sep 7, 2018 11:22 PM

Hillary Narcotics Trafficking and Seaboard Foods and Hezbollah
Seaboard Container (cocaine) Carriers Being Used to Support Hezbollah Hillary Clinton has been running interference for Seaboard Foods/a giant cocaine ring…. since 1998/GM….
All the bureaucrats, judges, prosecutors, bribed witnesses, that Hillary Clinton has bribed with Seaboard Food’s drug money defies imagination! Bribed Judges: Monte Belot J HARVIE Wilerson Barry Bennington Raymond Jackson G E Tidwell Bibed Prosecurors: Joel Jackson Ann Swegle Harvey Bryant Colin Stolle Carla Stovall Steckline
All those MSNBC and CNN talking heads trying to take down our duly elected President, are merely high paid actors. Actors, clever debaters, who have no qualms about selling out our country. Remember, much of their payoff dollars once travelled in Seaboard Marine’s Container Carriers. Afterall, why would any modern shipping company lower itself to transport flour to the lawless Belgin Congo? Seaboad Futurs.
All those corrupt lawyers: Terry Blanton Tim Keenan Larry Keenan All the above listed bureaucrats, judges, prosecutors, bribed witnesses, that Hillary Clinton has bribed with Seaboard Food drug money defies imagination! And much of Seaboard’s Dirty Cash has been given over to Hezbollah for weapons purchases ..mainly from the Russians.
Therefore all of the US media whores that have accepted Hillary Clinton Steven Bresky DIRTY CASH….are by definition TRAITORS! And so when the above listed judges, prosecurors, lawyers accept Seaboard Food’s River of Dirty Cash they are guilty of RICO narcotics trafficking but also of TREASON when Hezbollah weapons were used to maime or kill US servicemen and defense contractors.
Consider the River of Dirty Cash that promotes the beaurocrats and Corrupt Talking Heads that daily spew out their daily anti Trump trash A River of Dirty Cash!
Search: Seaboard Foods + Hezbollah + WSJ or: George Meredith MD + Hillary Clinton George Meredith MD Virginia Beach

George Meredith MD
George Meredith MD
Sep 9, 2016 6:19 PM

George Meredith MD
Hillary’s Rape of Libya
Hillary’s Corrupt thought process was all about oil for gold and had nothing to do with the Arab Spring. She was probably drunk, or drunk with power, or both, when she used our CIA and cruise missiles to execute Gaddiffy without a jury trial. It’s all about Gold, Oil, France and Hillary’s flaunting our rule of law in the extra judicial execution of the leader of a soverign state. “We came we saw and he died” Against all the dictates of the Geneva Convention and our Constitution. Consider:
A common defense mechanism, used by hard core alcoholics, is to lie repeatedly, and to lie without qualms. They lie, even when their self preservation does not dictate that they do so. They get so used to lying that it becomes a way of life for many alcoholics. And if they have unlimited (drug) money and power they can recruit hoards of others to do same, regardless of whatever oath these people may have taken. Witness the CNN and MSNBC media thugs that currently prostitute themselves themselves with the Former Secretary of State.
Consider:in the year that preceded her run for the Democratic nomination, Hillary’s aides pressured her to go to the Betty Ford Clinic because of her alcoholism. Willful Hillary resisted, choosing instead, to detoxify under the direction of an unnamed Internal Medicine detox specialist, working out of Clinton’s Westchester home.
Curiously, when her personal Internist Lisa Bandack MD released Hillary’s medical record ( summary) on July 28, 2015, Bandark presented Hillary’s serum lipid and triglyceride studies, colonoscopy and mammogram reports and a host of other trivia.
Bandack, however, cleverly neglected to mention Hillary’s alcohol rehab report. And key alcoholism studies were, likewise, omitted from this personal physicians “summary”. Go to the July 28, 2015 Bandack “summary” and search for yourself….you will find no CDT, no MCV, no GGT, no AST, no ALT, no BAC (blood alcohol level) nor AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test).
Hillary and her doctors chose to hide these things from us. You should know that Hillary is a puppet for vast criminal network, with which she and her narco trafficking cabal (judges, prosecutors, lawyers, private detectives, a variety of government agents, etc) have the money and the political power to steal the 2016 presidential election. Furthermore, were they be able to steal this election, Hillary’s temper tantrums, so well known to her staff and her secret service detail, will place PLANET EARTH at considerable risk …..,.THEREFORE WE THE PEOPLE, should insist on a blood alcohol level (BAC) should she, in a drunken rage, decide to push THE NUCLEAR BUTTON
George Meredith MD
Virginia Beach

Zoharariel Underscore Obatala
Zoharariel Underscore Obatala
Jun 7, 2016 9:10 AM

Lest we forget:
I have met with these brave fighters, and they are not Al-Qaeda. To the contrary: They are Libyan patriots who want to liberate their Nation. We should help them do it – Senator John McCain in Benghazi, Libya April 22, 2011 – As an Al-Qaeda flag was hoisted over a Benghazi courthouse.

Eurasia News Online
Eurasia News Online
Jun 7, 2016 6:15 AM

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jag37777
jag37777
Jun 7, 2016 2:09 AM

I seem to remember reading that the building that was attacked was not a consulate or any sort of official site. But a covert CIA post.
Which would make sense if Stevens was engaged in funneling stolen arms to Syria as has been reported credibly elsewhere.
If that is the case it would explain why the MSG wasn’t there as they are Pentagon rather than CIA/Secret Service and thus responsible to a chain of command that would be much harder to control.
I could be wrong though.

mohandeer
mohandeer
Jun 6, 2016 7:09 PM

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joekano76
joekano76
Jun 6, 2016 1:32 PM

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