HILLARY’S DEFINING MOMENT

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The Senate Intelligence committee has issued a report on Benghazi and it is absolutely devastating for Hillary Clinton.  What is most incredible about this report is that Dianne Feinstein is Chairman of that committee and clearly this was designed to spare Hillary Clinton to the extent possible.   Yet in spite of the obvious effort to avoid criticizing Hillary, she may have been fatally wounded as a candidate for President of the United States.  She certainly should be eliminated as a candidate by anyone reading this report with an ounce of objectivity.

Following is a link to the actual report and the principle findings:

http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/benghazi2014/benghazi.pdf

I will not repeat this lengthy report.  I will just provide my own summary.

  1. There were numerous warnings about the danger but no one in the State Department or anywhere else in the Obama administration did anything about it.
  2. A lot of people knew this was a terrorist attack from the first moment.  No competent analysis would have ever concluded that this was the result of over-reaction to a video.The clearly erroneous “talking points” were based on open source press reports, not any real intelligence or analysis.
  3. The State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) did not disseminate any independent analysis for at least a year following the attack.
  4. The DNIs Office of Analytic Integrity and Standards failed to prepare an accurate report and refused to provide complete and accurate information to Congress.
  5. No one has been held accountable.

Hillary Clinton was in charge of the State Department and after this report it is impossible to even argue that she was on top of things.  No one is claiming that security was adequate.  No one is claiming that this was well-managed.  No one is claiming that the American people were told the truth.  The only question is the extent to which this was the result of callous indifference, gross dereliction of duty or mere laziness and incompetence.

So we are left with:

  1. Hillary the ruthless and uncaring; or
  2. Hillary the incompetent; or
  3. Hillary the clueless.

.  Which do you prefer?

TDM