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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has so successfully scrubbed the Sept. 11, 2012, massacre at Benghazi from her brain that, in explaining the country’s intervention in Libya on “PBS Newshour” last week, she said U.S. efforts there “did not cost a single American life.”
“We know that you encouraged the president to intervene in Libya in 2011,” host Judy Woodruff said. “Recently President Obama said his worst mistake in office was probably failing to plan for the day after what he thought was the right thing to do in intervening there. How do you see your responsibility in that?”
Clinton went on to discredit her influence and called it “a presidential decision.” The president sometimes would follow her advice, she said, and sometimes not. After trying to further explain the events surrounded the decision, she said, “After due diligence, we came up with a way of supporting their efforts that did not cost a single American life. And we saved a lot of Libyan lives.”
What she conveniently forgot was that in part of that intervention, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty were killed in an attack on American facilities there.