Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas by Edward Klein

Author:Edward Klein [Klein, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781621573142
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2014-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

THE FULL GINSBURG

Despite Hillary’s initial reluctance to go along with the White House’s fabricated story about Benghazi, she quickly fell in line and became an eager collaborator. In fact, Barack Obama could not have chosen a better advocate. As he knew, once Hillary made up her mind to do something, she put her head down and bulldozed her way through to her goal, whether or not it was morally defensible.

Lying had never bothered Hillary. It was New York Times columnist William Safire who first wrote about Hillary’s comfort with mendacity. In a withering 1996 essay, Safire called Hillary “a congenital liar.” He pointed out that as first lady, Hillary was “compelled to mislead, and ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.” Among other things, he cited Hillary’s preposterous explanation for her 10,000 percent profit in commodities trading; her denial that she ordered the firing of White House travel aides; and her concealment of documents following Vince Foster’s suicide. “She is in the longtime habit of lying,” wrote Safire, “and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends.”

Hillary’s habit of lying was on full display two days after the attack on the consulate, when the bodies of Ambassador Stevens and the three other Americans who were killed in Benghazi arrived at Andrews Air Force Base. Flanked by President Obama and Vice President Biden, Hillary declared: “We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing to do with. It is hard for the American people to make sense of that, because it is senseless and totally unacceptable.”

Hillary lied even when she didn’t have to. After the ceremony, Hillary approached Charles Woods, whose son, former SEAL Tyrone Woods, died in Benghazi, and said with a straight face: “We’re gonna go out and we’re gonna prosecute that person that made the video.”

Less than a week later, she and Obama appeared in a commercial that aired on Pakistani television. In a series of clips of their joint press conferences in Washington, the president and secretary of state apologized for the anti-Muslim “video” that allegedly triggered the assault on the consulate. “We absolutely reject its content and message,” Clinton said in the advertisement, which cost the State Department $70,000, and which carried the caption: “Paid Content.”

By now it was clear that Hillary was willing to go to any length to prevent Benghazi from becoming a political embarrassment to the White House or State Department. When she heard that Dutch Ruppersberger, the ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, had asked the CIA to put together unclassified “talking points” on the Benghazi attack, she warned Cheryl Mills, her chief of staff, and Victoria Nuland, her press secretary, to be on the lookout for problems in the CIA draft that might damage the president or her.

Her concern turned out to be warranted. As Stephen F. Hayes of the Weekly Standard later reported, the

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