Hillary Clinton denies knowing anything about Libya gun running
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks on the deaths of American personnel in Benghazi, Libya, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., September 12, 2012. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
One of the most intriguing encounters during the day long questioning was the six minutes Clinton faced with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
Paul clearly put the Benghazi disaster at the feet of the Secretary saying, “I’m glad you’re excepting responsibility, I think that ultimately with your leaving you accept the culpability for the worst tragedy since 9/11, and I really mean that.
“Had I been President at the time, and I found that you did not read the cables from Benghazi, you did not read the cables from Ambassador Stevens, I would have relieved you of your post.”
Then Senator Paul asked a question that appeared in some media reports but didn’t get much attention at the time concerning weapons shipments from Libya to Turkey or other destinations.
Paul asks, “Is the US involved with any procuring of weapons, transfer of weapons, buying, selling anyhow transferring weapons to Turkey out of Libya?”
After a long hesitation, Sec. Clinton, in a somewhat dumbfounded way said, “To Turkey?” She continues, “I will have to take that question for the record, nobody’s ever raised that with me.”
When Paul continued with his line of questioning, Clinton said she’d have to refer it to those who run the annex.
[…] During the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Benghazi attack, Paul asked Clinton, “Is the US involved with any procuring of weapons, transfer of weapons, buying, selling anyhow transferring weapons to Turkey out of Libya?”, a question that Clinton seemed totally unaware of. […]
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