The difference it makes:
Maybe there’s an explanation in the internal processes of the State Department. And, it should be said, high officials often make decisions that with hindsight seem obvious mistakes. But she has given us just an exclamation, not an explanation.
And, as the Interim Report goes on to explain, the accounts given by the Obama administration at the time were misleading — deliberately so.
It notes that State immediately reported the attack to the White House Situation Room and two hours later noted an al Qaeda affiliate’s claim of responsibility. There was no mention of a spontaneous protest of an anti-Muslim video.
Yet President Obama, Clinton and press secretary Jay Carney spoke repeatedly for days later of a video and a protest. Clinton assured one victim’s family member that the video-maker was being prosecuted.
Because they had to maintain the false narrative for the election.
Silly people, it doesn’t matter if you lie as long as you’re in the
rightleft party. So some people died because they let them, it’s not like they said something cryptic at a birthday party.I’m sure a certain somebody will be along shortly to tell us not to believe our lyin’ eyes when we read that article.
For Clinton to ask – in a Congressional hearing – “What difference does it make?” *should* have elicited a collective gasp of shock and horror that someone would actually say that. That someone anyone, not just a high ranking official – would say that is unbelievable.
And yet…..
Approximately half the nation is unfazed. That is even more astonishing.