So Hillary Clinton gave the stand down order in Benghazi after all. That’s what one of her main goons Sydney Blumenthal wrote in an e-mail almost one year ago. Think the media will ignore this one too? Answer is simple. Yes. This e-mail was one of thousands of Wikileaks e-mails dropped today.
| Hillary Clinton gave stand down order in Benghazi – Wikileaks |
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No one ordered military assets to move, but Clinton gave an order to stand down. Of course, military assets were moved, but were unable to get any further than Italy before the Benghazi attack was complete. And there is no doubt that any State Department would be concerned about the procedures for having an American military force attack in a sovereign nation. But was there such an order? Contrary to Issa’s statement, it is not only completely deniable, it has been denied by everyone involved, including all of the witnesses interviewed by the Benghazi committee. Like so many other statements made by Republicans about Benghazi, it is wrong in every particular. Despite his investigation, Issa either lied or did not know of the multiple military orders that went out that night—diverting Predator drones, dispatching the Commander’s In-Extremis Force from Croatia, sending a special operations unit from the United States and instructing Marine platoons from Spain to prepare for deployment. On the other hand, Issa’s statement is literally true: Not one order was given to one Defense Department asset; that’s because four were given to four assets. Then came the conspiracy theory that Clinton herself had personally signed a cable denying a request for increased security at Benghazi. This one was advanced by the chairmen of five Republican House committees and Senator Rand Paul. But the Republicans who continue to traffic in this claim are either lying or almost criminally ignorant about the processes of government.