{"id":105,"date":"2013-04-24T06:15:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=105"},"modified":"2013-04-24T06:24:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:24:32","slug":"new-benghazi-report-faults-clinton-for-security-lapses-claims-white-house-changed-cia-talking-points-to-avoid-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"NEW BENGHAZI REPORT FAULTS CLINTON FOR SECURITY LAPSES, CLAIMS WHITE HOUSE CHANGED CIA TALKING POINTS TO AVOID CRITICISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"NEW%20BENGHAZI%20REPORT%20FAULTS%20CLINTON%20FOR%20SECURITY%20LAPSES%2C%20CLAIMS%20WHITE%20HOUSE%20CHANGED%20CIA%20TALKING%20POINTS%20TO%20AVOID%20CRITICISM\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>\u201c[A]n April 2012 State Department cable bearing Secretary Hillary Clinton\u2019s signature acknowledged then-Ambassador Cretz\u2019s formal request for additional security assets but ordered the withdrawal of security elements to proceed as planned,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing: Clinton said in her January 2013 testimony that she was not aware of any security requests for that area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t come to me. I didn\u2019t approve them. I didn\u2019t deny them,\u201d she said, contrary to the report\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report also found that White House and high-ranking officials at the State Department changed CIA talking points following the attacks, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, in order to shield the State Department from \u2018criticism for inadequate security levels\u2019 on the ground in Benghazi,\u201d the Washington Examiner\u2019s Susan Ferrechio notes.<\/p>\n<p>She continues:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/04\/23\/new-benghazi-report-faults-clinton-for-security-lapses-sheds-light-on-deadly-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/04\/23\/new-benghazi-report-faults-clinton-for-security-lapses-sheds-light-on-deadly-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"NEW%20BENGHAZI%20REPORT%20FAULTS%20CLINTON%20FOR%20SECURITY%20LAPSES%2C%20CLAIMS%20WHITE%20HOUSE%20CHANGED%20CIA%20TALKING%20POINTS%20TO%20AVOID%20CRITICISM\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>\u201c[A]n April 2012 State Department cable bearing Secretary Hillary Clinton\u2019s signature acknowledged then-Ambassador Cretz\u2019s formal request for additional security assets but ordered the withdrawal of security elements to proceed as planned,\u201d the report reads. But here\u2019s the thing: Clinton said in her January 2013 testimony that she was not aware of any security requests for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}