Not only did Hillary Clinton lie to protect terrorists, she did it in the face of demands from State Department officials she stop doing it.
“Officials in Hillary Clinton’s State Department were warned against saying that an anti-Muslim video contributed to the the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a new email released on Friday reveals,” The Hill reports.
The Benghazi attack happened just weeks before the 2012 presidential election, and revelations the attack was a highly-organized terrorist attack would have contradicted claims from the Obama re-election campaign that Libya was secure.
Hoping to deflect blame and avoid a slump in the campaign’s support, Clinton publicly claimed the attack was a popular response to an Internet video, despite the fact she told her family immediately after the incident it was a terrorist attack.
State Department officials warned others to not blame the anti-Islamic video, as it would draw attention to it and endanger Americans overseas.
“Our monitoring of the Libyan media and conversations with Libyans suggest that the films [sic] not as explosive of an issue here as it appears to be in other countries in the region,” the email read.
“And it is becoming increasingly clear that the series of events in Benghazi was much more terrorist attack than a protest which escalated into violence,” it read.
The State Department told Hillary and others to be “cautious in our local messaging with regard to the inflammatory film trailer” so as not to “draw unwanted attention to it.”
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