{"id":13268,"date":"2012-10-17T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13268"},"modified":"2012-10-17T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:13:09","slug":"obama-gets-pass-on-benghazi-remains-oblivious-to-state-deprtment-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13268","title":{"rendered":"Obama gets pass on Benghazi remains oblivious to State Department Incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clinton Accepts Responsibility for Benghazi Attack<\/strong><br \/>\nPOMED &#8211; 17 October, 2012 <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bm7hLUc2-qM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accepted responsibility for the attack in Benghazi that killed four State Department employees, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. \u201cI\u2019m in charge of the State Department\u2019s 60,000-plus people all over the world (at) 275 posts.\u201d Clinton defended Vice President Joe Biden\u2018s statement in last week\u2019s vice-presidential debate that the Obama administration was unaware of the request for additional security leading up to the attacks. \u201cThe president and the vice-president wouldn\u2019t be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals,\u201d Clinton said. She also sat down for interviews with NBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, and CNN to answer questions about the Benghazi attack.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Hounshell, in an op-ed for Foreign Policy, expressed frustration with the U.S. political notion \u201cthat Libya is the most important story in the world after ignoring it for months. It reeks of political opportunism.\u201d Frustrated by the lack of clear information on the events in Benghazi, Larry Clifton said, \u201cClinton can fall on the political sword for Obama if she wishes, but that doesn\u2019t explain <a href=\"http:\/\/pomed.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/clinton-accepts-responsibility-for-benghazi-attack.html\/#.UH7HsfIYmMk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D13268&amp;text=Obama+gets+pass+on+Benghazi+remains+oblivious+to+State+Department+Incompetence&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton Accepts Responsibility for Benghazi Attack POMED &#8211; 17 October, 2012 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accepted responsibility for the attack in Benghazi that killed four State Department employees, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. \u201cI\u2019m in charge of the State Department\u2019s 60,000-plus people all over the world (at) 275 posts.\u201d Clinton defended Vice President Joe Biden\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13268#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2024],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13270,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions\/13270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}