John McCain om Hillary Clinton och Benghazi

Hillary Clinton har tagit på sig skulden för misslyckandet i Benghazi, men senator John McCain menar dock att skulden inte är hennes, och att Obama inte bör komma undan så enkelt. Tillsammans med senatorerna Lindsey Graham och Kelly Ayotte släppte McCain följande meddelande:

“We have just learned that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed full responsibility for any failure to secure our people and our Consulate in Benghazi prior to the attack of September 11, 2012. This is a laudable gesture, especially when the White House is trying to avoid any responsibility whatsoever.

“However, we must remember that the events of September 11 were preceded by an escalating pattern of attacks this year in Benghazi, including a bomb that was thrown into our Consulate in April, another explosive device that was detonated outside of our Consulate in June, and an assassination attempt on the British Ambassador. If the President was truly not aware of this rising threat level in Benghazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team, whose responsibility it is to keep the President informed. But if the President was aware of these earlier attacks in Benghazi prior to the events of September 11, 2012, then he bears full responsibility for any security failures that occurred. The security of Americans serving our nation everywhere in the world is ultimately the job of the Commander-in-Chief. The buck stops there.

Att Hillary Clinton på detta sätt tar på sig skulden för Benghazi-skandalen, trots att hon är den av Obamas kabinettsmedlemmar som hanterat situationen bäst visar i princip mest en sak: att det verkligen finns riktiga problem Obama själv inte vill ska uppmärksammas, åtminstone inte de närmsta veckorna.

“Furthermore, there is the separate issue of the insistence by members of the Administration, including the President himself, that the attack in Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video, long after it had become clear that the real cause was a terrorist attack. The President also bears responsibility for this portrayal of the attack, and we continue to believe that the American people deserve to know why the Administration acted as it did.”

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