Friday, May 22, 2015

Hundreds of Hillary Clinton e-mails pertaining to Benghazi released today. Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!

Courtesy of Time Magazine:

The State Department released hundreds of emails Friday that were stored on Hillary Clinton’s private server during her time as Secretary of State. The emails, which pertain to the Benghazi terror attacks in September 2012, do not change the official assessment of the incident in which a U.S. ambassador was killed, the State Department said. 

“The emails we release today do not change the essential facts or our understanding of the events before, during, or after the attacks, which have been known since the independent Accountability Review Board report on the Benghazi attacks was released almost two and a half years ago,” wrote spokeswoman Marie Harf. 

Clinton, who wants to avoid the controversy over her emails and Benghazi stretching into the primary and general election next year, told reporters in Hampton, N.H. on Friday that the released emails had previously been sent to the committee investigating the Benghazi attack in 2012. “I’m glad that the emails are starting to come out. It is something that I’ve asked to be done, as you know, for a long time. Those releases are beginning,” Clinton said.

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Clinton has asked that the State Department speed up the release of her work emails. “I’ve said from the very beginning that I want them to release all of them as soon as possible. They are in the process of doing that. I understand that there is a certain protocol that has to be followed,” Clinton said. “It’s beginning. I would like to see them expedited to get more of them out, more quickly.”

Doesn't sound like a person who has something to hide does it?

As reported by the Daily Beast there is no smoking gun in this e-mail dump:

If Republicans were looking for a silver bullet to use against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the State Department’s Friday document dump about Benghazi wasn’t it. 

There’s no illicit weapons Libyan program to be found in the emails, as some have speculated. No ‘stand-down’ order. Just a hectic flow of information to and from Hillary Clinton—about danger, about death, and ultimately, about condolences.

Of course the fact that these e-mails do not contain the smoking gun that the Republicans have been hoping for does not mean they have given up. Oh no, not them.

This from Reuters:

Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Republican who heads the Benghazi probe in the House of Representatives, said the emails made public on Friday "continue to reinforce the fact that unresolved questions and issues remain as it relates to Benghazi." 

He also complained that there was a significant gap in the emails between late April and July 4, 2012, a period when threats from militants in Benghazi were being more regularly reported.

Keep digging Gowdy, after all that is how your spirit guide Ken Starr found that stained blue dress.

Of course some conservatives simply cannot wait for investigations to find dirt on Hillary. They want to impeach her now, even though she is no longer Secretary of State and not yet the President.

This courtesy of something called Special Operations Speaks PAC. (SOS, get it?): 

Special Operations Speaks PAC is calling on the United States Congress to impeach former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for "high crimes and misdemeanors" pursuant to Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States in response to the following: 

1. As U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton absented herself from the besieged in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, costing four American lives: U.S. Ambassador Christopher J. Stevens, security officers and former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, and information officer Sean Smith.
 

2. As U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton received, through the Clinton Foundation, emoluments from foreign governments, despite Article I, Section 9, which proscribes the reception of foreign "gifts" by U.S. officials without the express consent of Congress.
 

3. As U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton unlawfully housed her official emails on a private server in violation of the Freedom of Information Act and to the detriment of national security. Take action and blast faxes to members of the U.S. Congress – Demand that they impeach Hillary Clinton and disqualify her from enjoying "any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" per Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 of the Constitution.

Gee, they at least let President Obama get elected first before they actively started to try and undermine his presidency and call for his impeachment.

To me it sounds like these people are flat out terrified of Hillary, which of course makes me all the more interested in seeing her win the 2016 election.

(H/T to Politicususa.)

39 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:58 PM

    Yep. "Small government" republicans squandering millions in taxpayer money to get US to finance their opposition research on Clinton.

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  2. Anonymous5:23 PM

    GO HILLARY!!! :-)

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  3. Anonymous5:25 PM

    ...."Keep digging Gowdy, after all that is how your spirit guide Ken Starr found that stained blue dress."

    Not sure what you are wishing for since you love the Hill, as they did find the dress, Bill Clinton got caught lying with his pants down and had to fess up, and he was impeached. Personally I have no doubt there is plenty of deep deep dirt on Hillary, Benghazi or not, that will be released in due time and it won't be from Gowdy's investigations.

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    1. Anonymous5:52 PM

      The neocons would have more success in searching the Palins' history of criminal activity.

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    2. Anonymous6:11 PM

      I'm pretty sure that was what we like to call sarcasm.

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  4. Anonymous5:29 PM

    Damn, but can hardly wait to cast my vote for Hillary!!!!

    The Republicans look like retarded idiots! Kind of like ole Sarah Palin of Alaska!

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  5. Anonymous5:45 PM

    I don't really know what Benghazi is all about but whatever it is it seems like if there was any wrong doing regarding it that someone would have found out by now?

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    1. Typical liberal response.

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    2. Anonymous7:27 PM

      Lol...oh boy...ok...look up the making of that "movie" and see WHO was financing it? And WHO went on a rant about that "tragic" incident? Gee did ya make any money with this investment? Oh I guess not hu? Homeland security? Catch WHO if you can? Go Hillary!!!

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    3. Anonymous10:52 PM

      That's funny because I'm not a liberal!

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  6. Anonymous6:10 PM

    Kids. Its about choice. and it is very early. now Hilary is a lifetime political junkie. She should show her 60's political photos. But really? Are we ready for the same old on both sides of the outhouse or something new, bright and alive?

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    1. 1. Hillary not Hilary.
      2. What's "the outhouse"?
      3. "Kids"?

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    2. Anonymous7:28 PM

      Sarah forgot to take her meds...

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    3. Anonymous8:15 PM

      @6:10 PM We? You stand alone, Troll.

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    4. Anonymous8:45 PM

      something "vibrant"?

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    5. Anonymous9:43 PM

      Sorry. Nope. Not Hilary. too much baggage and bill. Traveling pant suits should not put this country through it again. Same thing with bushes. No. No problemo 815, I never follow. outhouse? It is a shitty place. And yes kids. Poor Sarah must be tired. She may have forgot her meds in ky. Now stop yer whining and grow up. Hill is not it.

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  7. Anonymous6:22 PM

    NOTHING should amaze us anymore about what absolute bullshit the reich wingnuts believe.

    But when I read Facebook comments I have to admit I sit here stunned. Here's an example:

    "Hillary needs to be in prison. She killed the Libyan ambassador, as well as dozens of others, along with her husband Bill.

    They took billions of dollars from enemies of America, and called it a ''charity." She's now using all that money to buy the Presidency.

    She is plain evil, and should be assassinated immediately."

    You have to hand it to Fox channel: they can get their viewers to believe virtually anything.

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    1. Anonymous6:55 PM

      Sounds like Food Stamp Pete from the Urinal

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    2. Anonymous7:30 PM

      America needs a Mother Of Everyone!!! Go Hillary! Take a switch to those brats! Tell them they cannot read green eggs and ham in the Senate...whip em good!

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    3. Anonymous9:26 PM

      If Hillary killed the Libyan ambassador, then Bush and Cheney deserve the electric chair. They sent 4,000 people to their death in Iraq and Afghanistan, wounded hundreds of thousands more, destroyed cities and cost us billions of dollars.

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    4. Anonymous9:26 PM

      That would be classic! President Clinton chases Senators with a switch! Secret service is monitoring the situation!

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    5. Anonymous11:45 PM

      Food Stamp Pete rilly needs to get s life. Too much faux news and ding dong palin. GOP told her too go away after she got laughed off the stage when her speech bombed. The world sees her as an embarrassment to all women..but in your tiny mind she's queen bee. i guess even the mentally challenged need a cheerleader. you realize that faux news doesnt claim to be a news source,dont you? Nothing like being willfully ignorant and spoon fed stupid by choice.

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    6. Anonymous12:16 AM

      That movie those war mongering ReThuglicons funded is what killed that poor focker...catch me if you can...ok!

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  8. Anonymous6:50 PM

    I am so tired of the hatred in this country...
    What has happened to common sense?

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    1. Anonymous7:50 PM

      Sold out...money became God!!!

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    2. Anonymous9:47 PM

      Greedy global dictators and the bohemian grove. Power and Money.

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    3. Anonymous10:45 PM

      Lou Sarah has cornered the murikun murket on "Cum-on Sense Cuntservajism ™".

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  9. Anonymous6:50 PM

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3091932/How-marriage-Bristol-Palin-s-hero-marine-ex-fell-apart-Bride-said-terrible-mistake-fled-Hawaii-Dakota-Meyer-just-months-wed-PTSD.html

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    1. Cracklin Charlie9:13 PM

      So Bristol proposed to Dakota?

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    2. Anonymous2:51 PM

      "He called it 'the best day of his life' when Palin proposed to him, and he wished his future bride Happy Mother's Day by calling her 'the best mother I know,' adding 'Thank you for being the amazing woman that you are!'"

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  10. Anonymous7:10 PM

    Do these idiots realize that donations made to her husband's charity do not qualify as personal gifts to Hillary? Oh, wait, of course they do. But the idiots that listen to these slightly smarter idiots will gladly spread this BS. This is gonna be one crazy election.

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  11. Anonymous8:15 PM

    OMG, this is so sick...

    Huckabee: Better To Have A Gun You Don’t Know How To Use Than No Gun At All

    http://www.alan.com/2015/05/20/huckabee-better-to-have-a-gun-you-dont-know-how-to-use-than-no-gun-at-all/

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  12. FrostyAK8:20 PM

    It is beginning to look like the only requirement to be a conservative republican is to be an anally retentive, OCD, NPD, asshole.

    Hillary is far from perfect, but she is light years better than anything the R's have to offer.

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  13. Anonymous9:56 PM

    O/T
    Gryphen I think you're going to like this tweet...
    https://twitter.com/catbirdx/status/601839179253743616/photo/1

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  14. Anonymous10:13 PM

    So exciting, Gryphen!

    Ireland awaits counting of votes on same-sex marriage

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/22/europe/ireland-referendum-same-sex-marriage/

    Map: As Ireland prepares to approve gay marriage, here is where the whole world stands

    http://qz.com/409769/map-as-another-country-prepares-to-approve-gay-marriage-where-the-whole-world-stands/

    There might soon be only one country left in Western Europe that doesn’t recognize same-sex unions

    http://qz.com/410739/there-might-soon-be-only-one-country-left-in-western-europe-that-doesnt-recognize-same-sex-unions/

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  15. Anonymous11:26 PM

    the neocons and the Gop would make much better use of time and Our $$ investigating their own. they've been hashing over benghazi, lighting their hair on fire and running in circles for How Long now??

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  16. Anonymous11:14 AM

    Stupid liberals who worship that cunt and her husband.

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  17. Anita Winecooler5:44 PM

    I love how hot under the collar the idjits are. One ass was on the radio today demanding to see the redacted parts, yeah right, as if Hillary owes them her personal emails as well. I just love that photo of her, it's iconic. I can't thank her and her husband enough for leaving us with a surplus, despite the relentless bullshit Starr wasted money on.

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    1. Hey, personally I can't wait to read all about the exchanges with the florist and caterer for Chelsea's wedding.

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