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Benghazi happened a long time ago.
Jay Carney / Former White House Press Secretary
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Long
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Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.
Paul Manafort /
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Benghazi is not a scandal; Benghazi was a tragedy.
Alan Colmes / Radio Host
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I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
Susan Rice / United States Ambassador To The United Nations
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There's no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus.
Trey Gowdy / U.s. Representative
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Way
David
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Benghazi is important because it demonstrates all that is wrong in Washington.
Brandon Webb /
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As tragic as Benghazi was, its importance pales next to killing Osama bin Laden.
Bob Beckel / Pundit
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Tragic
Bin
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Do we want someone as secretary of state that is somehow tainted in this Benghazi issue?
Jeff Duncan /
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I cannot and will not raise money on Benghazi. I also advise my colleagues to follow suit.
Trey Gowdy / U.s. Representative
Advise
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Colleagues
Follow
Raise
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I agree with Donna Brazile who said about Benghazi: "We got to preven dis from hapinin agen. "
Joe Biden / Vice President Of The United States
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Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.
Trey Gowdy / U.s. Representative
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Entrusted
Govern
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I'll tell you one thing about Donald Trump: There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration.
Bobby Knight / Basketball Coach
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Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
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I can't discuss the possibility of the U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war without also talking about Benghazi.
Jeff Duncan /
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Syria
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At what point in time can our government fire someone whose gross negligence left four Americans dead in Benghazi?
Jeff Duncan /
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My big problem with Hillary and the Department of State where Benghazi is concerned is there is just no accountability.
Brandon Webb /
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Big Problem
Hillary
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The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.
Jeff Duncan /
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The outrages surrounding the Benghazi attack involve administration action - or lack of action - before, during, and after the attack.
Ron Johnson /
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People have seen me fighting everything from 'Fast and Furious' to the IRS on Planned Parenthood to a host of things, Benghazi and others.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
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Furious
Host
Irs
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Fighting Me People
Me Fighting People
Planned
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Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.
Carly Fiorina / Executive Officer
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Clinton
Lied
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Defending
Emails
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Planned
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Since the day the Obama administration first launched its duplicitous Benghazi cover story, Judicial Watch has been pressing for the full truth.
Tom Fitton / Activist
Administration
Benghazi
Judicial
Obama
Full
Cover
Watch
Obama Administration
Pressing
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The Republican effort to make the September 11th attack on Benghazi into a scandal is really about one thing and one thing only: Hillary Clinton.
Ed Schultz / Television Host
Benghazi
Scandal
September
September 11th
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
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I wish we had been doing diplomatic security in Benghazi. I can tell you that Benghazi would not have happened if Blackwater were on the job there.
Erik Prince /
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Look, does gender play a part in how people perceive Hillary Clinton? Yes. But it's also not the reason people criticize her about the emails or Benghazi.
Ana Navarro /
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Clinton
Criticize
Gender
Perceive
Emails
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Yes
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I think more and more, in places like Benghazi, in places like Iran, we have to be asking the question, can we trust the local government to protect our people?
Mitchell Zuckoff / Professor
Benghazi
Iran
Local Government
Trust Government People
More And More
Our People
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The Benghazi attack was one of the more confusing, chaotic days that we had at work because you had these multiple violent protests taking place in the Middle East.
Ben Rhodes /
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Chaotic
Confusing
East
Middle
Middle East
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The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi has become a political football in the presidential campaign, with all the grandstanding and misinformation that entails.
David Ignatius / Journalist
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Football
Misinformation
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Attack
Campaign
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Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.
David Ignatius / Journalist
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Crisis
Officers
Posts
Staff
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Accountable
Held
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I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they need to be answered.
Condoleezza Rice / Former United States Secretary Of State
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Answered
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My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans - two diplomats and, now it's public so I can say, two CIA operatives.
Hillary Clinton / Former United States Secretary Of State
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Cia
Diplomats
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Terrible
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Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.
Kevin Mccarthy /
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Clinton
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Numbers
Select
Special
Unbeatable
Committee
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
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Unfortunately for the American people, the Obama-Clinton-Rice cabal that led to the Benghazi cover-up was far more interested in political-damage control than serious damage assessment.
Tom Fitton / Activist
Assessment
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Damage
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American People
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The goal of the eight Benghazi committees, one of which produced and nurtured 'emailgate,' has been clear from the start: to prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming president of the United States.
Joy Reid /
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Hillary
Hillary Clinton
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Prevent
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Some of us believe, with good reasons, that the Republicans are 'mad-dogging' Hillary Clinton with the Benghazi hearing to damage not only her presidential prospects, but also to damage President Obama's credibility.
Donna Brazile / Author
Benghazi
Clinton
Credibility
Damage
Presidential
Prospects
Republicans
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
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The attack on Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 is a stark reminder that our nation must remain vigilant in protecting our citizens from the threat of Al-Qaeda and similar extremist terrorist entities around the world.
Bob Corker / United States Senator
Al Qaeda
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Terrorist
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The September 11th, 2012, attacks on the State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya, is important and should be studied because in the big picture, it represents a failed foreign policy that spans across both Bush and Obama Presidencies.
Brandon Webb /
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Big Picture
Department
Foreign Policy
Libya
September
September 11th
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Compound
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Spans
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Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath.
Sharyl Attkisson /
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Officials
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There is no other way to put it: When Mr. Obama, Secretary of then-State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice launched their Benghazi cover-up tour in the hours, weeks and months after the attack, they knew they were lying.
Tom Fitton / Activist
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Clinton
Hours
Lying
Months
Rice
Secretary
Obama
Ambassador
Attack
Mr
Weeks
Cover-Up
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Susan
Tour
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There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.
Trey Gowdy / U.s. Representative
Jobs
Benghazi
Congress
Department
Determine
Errors
Paper
Papers
Itself
Grade
Investigate
Sentence
State Department
Themselves
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The State Department has promised they will never have another temporary mission facility like the one in Benghazi that is so lightly protected. But at the same time, history tends to repeat itself here, and so it might not repeat itself in exactly the same way as Benghazi.
Mitchell Zuckoff / Professor
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Department
Facility
Time History Will
Exactly The Same
Mission
Lightly
Promised
Repeat
State Department
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
Fidel Castro / Former Prime Minister Of Cuba
Adversaries
Benghazi
Gaddafi
University
Activities
Assure
Student
Enroll
Expelled
Graduated
Stood
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True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant.
Bob Beauprez / Former United States Representative
Al Qaeda
Assassination
Benghazi
Brutal
Dormant
Groups
Islamic
Radical
Terror
Ambassador
Bin
Chris
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Joined
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I think what we're going to hear is that we didn't meet the basic, minimum standards required for a facility such as the one we had in Benghazi. And the request for more security personnel went unheeded, unanswered, and consequently, you know, you have the death of four Americans.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
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Minimum
Personnel
Request
Standards
Unanswered
Consequently
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I will say that there are genuine and serious concerns about what Hillary Clinton did before the Benghazi attacks, during them, and after them. I think her extremely careless handling of classified information, to use FBI Director Jim Comey's term, disqualifies her from being president.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Benghazi
Careless
Classified Information
Fbi
Genuine
Information
President
Serious
Term
Attacks
Director
Classified
Concerns
Extremely
Handling
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Hillary Clinton
Jim
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We may never really know if 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and Senator John Kerry was President Obama's original choice to be Secretary of State or if he settled on Kerry after his first pick, Susan Rice, was forced out by her troublesome career and misleading statements on the Benghazi terrorist attack.
Richard Grenell /
Benghazi
John Kerry
Presidential
Rice
Secretary
Statements
Terrorist
Troublesome
May Never Know
Senator
Nominee
Forced
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Susan
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With Benghazi, I don't see anyone saying, 'Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It's my fault.' I haven't heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that's just unbelievable to me.
Jocko Willink /
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Heard
Hey
Made
Responsibility
Unbelievable
Am
Anyone
Everyone
Bin
Side
Take
Coin
Fault
Look
Meanwhile
Other
Overall
Raid
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See
Therefore
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Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.
Jack Keane /
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