{"id":196,"date":"2013-05-21T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/21\/benghazi-will-haunt-clinton"},"modified":"2013-05-21T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T16:29:00","slug":"benghazi-will-haunt-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Benghazi will haunt Clinton?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>U.S. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has made a not-too-bold prediction.<\/p>\n<p>The Benghazi tragedy of Sept. 11, 2012 will bedevil former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s expected bid for the presidency in 2016, said the Texas Republican.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/05\/hillary-clinton-michael-mccaul-benghazi-91660.html?hp=l6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/05\/hillary-clinton-michael-mccaul-benghazi-91660.html?hp=l6\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/05\/hillary-clinton-michael-mccaul-benghazi-91660.html?hp=l6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Uhhh, let me think about that one for a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, I\u2019m sure it will haunt HRC. Why? Because congressional Republicans such as McCaul will ensure that it does.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton was secretary of state when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya came under siege on the 11th anniversary of the 9\/11 terror attacks. Four people died in the battle, including the American ambassador to Libya. Clinton has been pounded by GOP critics for all kinds of things real and\/or imagined. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he would have fired Clinton had he been president at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s turning out, though, that the Benghazi tragedy produced a massive misjudgment at many levels, but it doesn\u2019t constitute the kind of Watergate-style treatment that it\u2019s been getting. There doesn\u2019t to appear to have a cover-up or any other criminal activity, as McCaul and other leading congressional Republicans are suggesting.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton is considered to be the prohibitive favorite to be the Democrats\u2019 presidential nominee in 2016. She\u2019s expected to decide by sometime in 2014 whether to make the run. <\/p>\n<p>So, I\u2019m quite sure Chairman McCaul is right that Benghazi will haunt her \u2013 and he\u2019ll do his level best to scare up the ghosts.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has made a not-too-bold prediction. The Benghazi tragedy of Sept. 11, 2012 will bedevil former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s expected bid for the presidency in 2016, said the Texas Republican. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/05\/hillary-clinton-michael-mccaul-benghazi-91660.html?hp=l6 Uhhh, let me think about that one for a minute. Yep, I\u2019m sure it will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=196\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Benghazi will haunt Clinton?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}