Hillary ain’t Bill.
That is why, however tortuously it dribbles out, the real Benghazi story is being told. And, for Ms. Clinton’s presidential hopes, that is bad news. Very, very bad news.
Here is the latest, excerpted from Catherine Herridge’s article at foxnews.com:
Emails obtained through a federal lawsuit show that two top aides to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were running interference internally during the 2012 Benghazi terror attack.
The aides were Philippe Reines, widely described as Clinton’s principal gate-keeper, and Cheryl Mills, who has been at Clinton’s side for decades.
The emails show that while receiving updates about the assault as it happened, Mills told then-State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland to stop answering reporter questions about the status of Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was missing and later found dead.
Also littered throughout the State Department emails, obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, are references to a so-called Benghazi Group. A diplomatic source told Fox News that was code inside the department for the so-called Cheryl Mills task force, whose job was damage control.
The effort to stop Nuland from answering reporter questions also may have contributed to confusion over the nature of the attack. Clinton that night had put out the first statement wrongly linking the attack to a supposed protest sparked by an obscure, anti-Islam YouTube video – but that was never updated that night.
Obfuscate. Deceive. Censor. Lie.
Yep, that has Hillary Clinton’s imprimatur all over it.
Bill Clinton would have somehow deflected all this. And a large segment of the public would have loved it too: as I have said before, Mr. Clinton’s single greatest talent has always been convincing people that if he gets away with something, they are somehow winners.
But Hubby Bubba’s talent has certainly not rubbed off on his wife. Where Bill was a great liar, who could charm and finesse his way out of trouble, Hillary’s stock in trade is to give the world a wide-eyed, open mouthed look of surprise, and a loud, braying donkey-laugh that is supposed to communicate there’s nothing wrong, there’s no problem at all, it’s a big, silly, inconsequential joke.
And when she was an appendage to Hubby Bubba, that strategy worked just fine.
But Bill Clinton is not the main event any more. In fact, given his apparent involvement in the sex parties hosted by billionaire convicted pedophine Jeffrey Epstein, Hillary will be lucky if he just disappears into the muck and mire for a while – leaving her to deal with the new information about Benghazi and the big-and-growing email scandal (which touches on Benghazi as well) – the scandal that mainstream media, for a change, are not letting her off the hook on.
In other words, there may be no way out.
I have always been skeptical about Hillary Clinton making a run for the presidency – in no small part because she may not be physically up to it. But add in the new information (with more sure to come) on Benghazi, and the email scandal? Her prospects of running – and winning, even if she does run – look dimmer and dimmer by the nanosecond.
