A Little too Convenient, Maybe? — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Aims to Evade Congressional Investigation of the Benghazi Consulate Murders by Implicitly Claiming that Concussion Has Recently Addled Her Wits

© 2012 Peter Free

 

16 December 2012

 

 

The stain of professional dishonor lingers long on people with self-protecting feet

 

A couple of days ago, I addressed how President Obama and Secretary Clinton trotted the loyal United Nations Ambassador, Susan Rice, out into the spotlight to take the heat for the (poorly protected) Benghazi consulate deaths (on 11 September 2012) at terrorists’ hands.

 

Regarding Secretary Clinton, and her subsequent evasion of the post-Benghazi Sunday talk show circuit, I wrote:

 

Hillary Clinton knew that she would either have to lie, or look incompetent, under the talk show hosts’ questioning.  It was easier to ask (or allow) the evidently eager, ambitious and apparently ever loyal Susan Rice throw herself under Fate’s Ax.

 

Secretary Clinton (probably indirectly) managed to dodge a probably fatal political bullet, by letting Ambassador Rice take it for her.

 

How admirable is that?

 

Especially when the disaster happened on your watch and under your command?

 

Then yesterday, with the House Foreign Affairs Committee hounding the Secretary of State to answer some questions about the Benghazi consulate’s security preparations, we belatedly learned that she had fallen ill with a stomach virus last week, become dehydrated, and fainted — cracking her head.

 

The result?  A concussion.  Which, conveniently, will force her to miss her appointment with the Committee.

 

 

The moral? — I suspect that Hillary Clinton will not seek the American presidency in 2016

 

The Secretary’s before and after Benghazi involvement stinks of professional dishonor.

 

Americans tend not to respect implicitly scapegoating cowardice, when light finally and fully illuminates it — as the 2016 election process certainly will.