Hillary Clinton called just ONE of the 35 Benghazi survivors in the months after the terror attack – and only because right-hand-woman Huma Abedin tol

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[h=1]Hillary Clinton called just ONE of the 35 Benghazi survivors in the months after the terror attack – and only because right-hand-woman Huma Abedin told her to[/h]

• The Democratic presidential nominee – then the secretary of state – waited at least 48 days to speak with any of the Benghazi terror-attack survivors, according to testimony from her top aide Huma Abedin
• That contradicts Clinton's own testimony, in which she told Congress that she 'talked to the survivors when they came back to the United States'
• Abedin said under oath that Clinton had called just one of them in all of 2012 – a gravely injured Diplomatic Security agent – because she had emailed her boss to say she should
• It is believed that 35 Americans survived the attack and were evacuated, some with severe injuries
• Abedin was deposed last year under oath by congressional Benghazi Committee members and staff attorneys

By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 22:44, 29 June 2016 | UPDATED: 01:09, 30 June 2016




It took Hillary Clinton at least 48 days to speak with any of the government personnel who were evacuated from Benghazi, Libya after the deadly anti-American terror attacks there, according to sworn testimony from her longtime senior aide Huma Abedin.
Abedin testified in October of last year in a closed-door deposition that after checking in with a single injured agent from the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, a man who would spend more than a year recovering at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Clinton went the rest of 2012 without speaking to another survivor.
That view contradicts what Hillary Clinton would tell Congress six days later in an open hearing.
'I talked to the survivors when they came back to the United States,' Clinton said during a lengthy Capitol Hill grilling. 'And one who was for many months in Walter Reed on the telephone.'
Abedin testified differently in an October 16, 2015 deposition before the Select Committee on Benghazi, saying Clinton spoke with just one agent through the end of 2012.
She also told investigators that it was she who reminded Clinton to check in on the hospitalized security agent nearly 7 weeks after the attack.



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HUMA(N) REMINDER MACHINE: Huma Abedin (left) told her boss Hillary Clinton (right) that she should call a State Department security agent who was wounded in the Benghazi terror attacks, but up to that point – nearly 7 weeks on – the then-secretary of state hadn't mad any such phone calls. And She didn't make any others to survivors through the end of 2012

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CARNAGE: The September 11, 2012 terror attackers killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, but an estimated 35 more survived in various states of injury – only one of whom heard from Clinton in the months that followed

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'VERY IMPORTANT TO CALL': On October 29, 2012, 48 days after the Benghazi attack, Abedin told Clinton that she should phone in well-wishes to a gravely injured member of her Diplomatic Security force

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'SHE HAD NOT': Abedin told congressional investigators that Clinton hadn't called the unnamed surviving Diplomatic Security agent on her own in the nearly 7 weeks since the attack



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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told DailyMail.com that questions about whether Clinton followed up with her underlings after they faced death in Libya indicate her shortcomings as a candidate.
'Hillary Clinton started the Libyan war that put our Ambassador in danger, her State Department ignored repeated requests for security, then left them there to die,' Trump said.
'Next, she lied to the world about a video being the cause. Now we learn she even delayed meeting with survivors.'
She unleashed ISIS, failed our diplomatic personnel, and put the whole nation at risk through her corrupt email scheme,' Trump continued. 'Hillary is dangerous, incompetent, and reckless. She can never lead.'
The Islamist attacks on September 11, 2012 killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, a State Department information officer and two CIA operatives who were former Navy SEALs.
But 35 other Americans were rushed out of the Libyan port city, according to a Capitol Hill source with knowledge of Obama administration figures. Clinton wrote in her memoir 'Hard Choices' that five Diplomatic Security agents were among the injured.
She also named David Ubben, the man she called at Walter Reed.
Abedin told investigators that a college friend of hers was present in Benghazi on the night of the attack.
In an October 29, 2012 email released last year by the State Department, 'Abedin wrote to Clinton that she had 'had a long visit with my friend who was in benghazi [sic].'
'Will download in person but think very important for you to call the injured DS [Diplomatic Security] officer. he is now well enough to talk. he doesnt [sic] want a visit but a check in call and asking him if he needs anything would be good. monica [sic] will remind you of this,' she added.
Abedin confirmed in her testimony that 'I had a friend from college who was in Benghazi that night.' She refused to discuss whether that person had witnessed the carnage.
But she acknowledged that up to that point – 48 days after the attacks – Clinton had not made contact with any survivors.
'Had she talked to any of the surviving agents of the attack ... before this time?' Sharon Jackson, the congressional committee's deputy chief counsel, asked Abedin.
'I don't believe she had,' the long-time aide responded.
Ubben, she explained, had been badly injured and was not well enough to receive calls or visitors.
But 'I'm pretty certain she talked to him shortly after this email exchange,' Abedin testified. 'I don't remember the exact date, but I'm pretty certain she did.'
Jackson pressed her on whether or not Clinton had spoken with any of the other 'surviving agents' in the months that followed.
'Did she talk to them, to your knowledge, at all during 2012?' she asked.
'Not to my knowledge,' Abedin replied, directly clashing with Clinton's congressional testimony.


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[h=3]WHAT HILLARYTOLD CONGRESS[/h]Alabama Rep. Martha Roby grilled Hillary Clinton during an October 22, 2015 congressional hearing about the Benghazi attacks, just six days after top aide Huma Abedin said under oath that her boss hadn't spoken to any Benghazi survivors up to October 29, 2012 – and then only to a single one in the remaining weeks of that year.
REP. MARTHA ROBY: Did you – your surviving agents were evacuated to Tripoli the morning of the 12th. Did you talk to the survivors either that night or once they arrived in Tripoli?
SEC. HILLARY CLINTON: We did not speak to them directly. We obviously made arrangements for them to be safely evacuated, and then to be transported to a hospital facility that we thought was safe from any potential attacks.
ROBY: Did you talk to them the next day?
CLINTON: No.
ROBY: Did you talk to them later that week?
CLINTON: No, I did not.
ROBY: Did you talk to them when they first got back to the United States?
CLINTON: I did not talk to them until they had had an opportunity to be debriefed and to provide information that would help us understand what happened; help the intelligence community and help the FBI as they were trying to build their case.
ROBY: How would it have harmed the case that they were trying to build for you, secretary of state, just to check in on their well-being?
CLINTON: I did check on their well-being.
ROBY: No, personally.
CLINTON: Well, I did personally talk with the people who were taking care of them, transporting them –
ROBY: Again, the survivors -- when did you talk to the survivors?
CLINTON: I talked to the survivors when they came back to the United States. And one who was for many months in Walter Reed on the telephone.



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CRITICAL: Donald Trump lashed out at Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for her slow response in contacting Benghazi survivors after the deadly terror attack

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111 DAYS: Abedin testified that from the Sept. 11, 2012 terror attacks until the end of that year – 111 days – Clinton didn't talk with any of the other Benghazi survivors

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HUMA'S 'FRIEND': Abedin's lawyer quickly clamped down on the deposition rather than entertain questions about what a friend of Huma was doing in Benghazi on the night of the attacks

Nick Merrill, the Clinton campaign's chief spokesman, emailed DailyMail.com with a primer on what Clinton had said in her book and to Congress.
He noted that Clinton wrote in 'Hard Choices' about a reception she held for the five injured Diplomatic Security agents and their family members on her penultimate day as secretary of state.
'Here you go,' Merrill wrote.
Asked whether Clinton's statement to Congress indicated that Clinton had personally spoken with all the Benghazi survivors, he responded only that 'I think it speaks for itself.'
Abedin's deposition transcript was provided to DailyMail.com by a staffer to a Democratic member of the Benghazi Committee.


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[h=3]MURDERED BY ISLAMISTS IN THE ONE PLACE WHERE THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAFE FROM LIBYA'S BLOODSHED: THE HORROR OF BENGHAZI[/h]

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Diesel fires set in the Benghazi compound

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On Tuesday, September 11, 2012, Islamic militants allied with an al Qaeda offshoot called Ansar al Sharia attacked the U.S. diplomatic post in the Libyan port city of Benghazi, and also a CIA annex a mile away.
In the attacks, which included explosives, gunfire and mortars, four Americans were killed – including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.
The attack left buildings in smoldering ruins along with Islamist graffiti and blood-smeared walls. Dozens of U.S. personnel escaped with the help of a militia that was once loyal to deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
The attack itself began with an explosion at the gate of the State Department building, and Ansar al Sharia forces encountered little resistance from one unarmed brigade and a second group of three or four armed guards from a local militia.
The attackers set diesel fires and engulfed buildings in smoke. Stevens would later die of smoke inhalation.

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The aftermath of the Benghazi carnage

Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, former Navy SEALS who were CIA operatives at the time of the attacks, perished on a CIA annex rooftop under heavy mortar fire after some of the siplomatic staff had retreated there.
Sean Smith, a State Department information officer tasked to work with Stevens, also died in the attacks.
No U.S. military support was sent to help, despite orders from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to deploy military assets.

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Cars were set on fire by Islamist radicals as Americans fled

The Obama administration insisted from the beginning that the carnage was traced to a protest that spun out of control, at the hands of demonstrators who were angered by an anti-Islam video produced in the U.S.
National Security Adviser Susan Rice made the rounds on TV the following Sunday, carrying that message.
But almost immediately after the attacks began, Clinton told her family members and world leaders that it was a terror attack.



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People are so blind to think she's a decent person.

 

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How many more examples do you liberals need to show that this woman Hillary is a person with no moral character? Even her closest personal assistant can own up to the truth about her blatant lying. Why can't you Hillary supporters see it too or do you purposely choose to shut your own eyes to the truth time and time again?

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[Willie99]

why would she call them

1) she left them to die
2) she doesn't care about them unless she could have used them for political gain
3) they're probably justifiably angry with her
4) they know from first hand experience she's a fucking lair



but the fucking idiots do love their fucking losers, so what difference does it make

 

[Dave007inVegas]

why would she call them

1) she left them to die
2) she doesn't care about them unless she could have used them for political gain
3) they're probably justifiably angry with her
4) they know from first hand experience she's a fucking lair



but the fucking idiots do love their fucking losers, so what difference does it make

Can you say just plain evil?

 

[SheriffJoe]

Hell is waiting for her.

 

[busterhyman]

as much as i like hillary-think i would prefer huma as president than her

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Hell is waiting for her.

There goes the neighborhood. That does it. I’m not going there.