Paul: Benghazi should preclude Clinton from presidency
Washington (CNN) – Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky restated his position on Tuesday that the attack on the United States compound in Benghazi–and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s response–should prohibit her from becoming president.
Paul, who has long been outspoken about the terrorist attack, told cadets at The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, that the commander-in-chief should never be unwilling to send troops to protect the United States’ diplomatic missions.
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“Her failure to provide our ambassador and his mission with adequate security should preclude Hillary Clinton from ever holding high office ever again,” he said.
The diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya was attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2012. Four Americans were killed, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stephens.
Since the attack, many Republicans in Congress have called for more investigations into what happened in Benghazi and have faulted Clinton for not quickly sending reinforcements when the compound fell under siege.
Stephens was the first U.S. ambassador killed on duty in 33 years.
Clinton is widely seen as the prohibitive front runner for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president. Paul is someone who has not denied having aspirations of higher office, making his remarks an early attempt to undermine a potential Democratic rival that polls have leading generic Republican challengers.
Earlier this year, shortly after Clinton stepped down from her post at the State Department, Paul leveled similar critiques against her record and future aspirations.
“The person who made that decision should never be in place or a position to make that decision again,” he told CNN in May. “I stand by that.”
During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in January, where Clinton testified on Benghazi, Paul was equally critical, telling the then-secretary of state that had he been president at the time, he would have “relieved” her of her post.
“I find it a dereliction of duty, a clear dereliction of duty,” Paul said on Tuesday. “She wants to blame it on somebody else, but it is absolutely her responsibility.”
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Christ! And this tidbit coming from Senator "Plagurist"? Where did he steal that novel idea from?
“Her failure to provide our ambassador and his mission with adequate security should preclude Hillary Clinton from ever holding high office ever again,”
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House Republicans cut the administration’s request for embassy security funding by $128 million in fiscal 2011 and $331 million in fiscal 2012....Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans’ proposed cuts to her department would be “detrimental to America’s national security." – MotherJones(NoPlagiarismHere)
Nice try Pauly
Is Paul doing stand-up comedy now? Because this is pretty funny.
LOL Who cares what Randroid has to say? Quick, someone check to see if he's using someone else's words again....
And stupidity should preclude you from even thinking about running for POTUS. Who the hell do you think you are sitting on judgment on Hillary Clinton when every word that comes out of your mouth is plagerized. Save your critique for Bush/Cheney for the slaughter they caused with the Iraq war that should have never happened in the first place.
Yeah well, so should your rug, you dishonorable copycat.
/no one cares
He should be barred from being President for the sole fact that he quotes from wikipedia. College students even know not to do that so why would that make Rand qualified to be our President?
I didn't realize that he, and he alone had the power to make that decision.
When bombastic idiots like Paul, Palin, Cruz, Perry to name a few are against you, you are the right person for America. Only fools take these idiots seriously!
Well why why secratry of state hillary clinton was left her job at her secratry of state cause hillary clinton and presdient obama are lied keep talk story what happened about murder at benghizina.
I heard that wnd politics about alleges involvement with muslim brother hood
Washington severeal prominemt media sources in egyptain are now reporting that egyptain lawyer have filed criminal terrorisim court against presdient obama in addition to the criminal terrorisim charge s presvously filed in egyptain court against the presdient half brother malik obama
I am pray support for repbluic that congression repbluic will keep face against out of terrorsim against mk obama soon
The guys a joke!! He shouldn't even be a senator!!
Children should be seen, not heard. In this case it would be nice if both were done, not seen and not heard. Go Away.
over a year after the attack, nobody knows what obama or hillary clinton were doing while americans were under attack in benghazi. why is that???
benghazi was a massive obama/clinton failure before, during and after the attack. months of warning ahed of time, begging for security and denied for reasons unknown, then attacked and no help sent, actually people wanting to go help and told to stay put. and then the massive cover up aided by the msm.
bottom line is the 3am phone call did come and neither obama nor clinton were up to the task.
Bull, I don't give darn hoot to you or your Benghazi. I give to USA, I man the USA.
ignorance and bigotry should preclude you from the presidency.. Paul
Sounds like someone is scared to death she will run cause if she runs, SHE WINS...
Goes to show he is a weasel just afraid that if he runs against her he will lose. And lose BIG time
I'm kinda Luke-warm about Hillary, but if this idiot dislikes her so much, I might change my opinion.
And being a mindless, bigoted little puke will certainly preclude Mr. Aqua Buddha from ever getting the nomination, much less becoming president.
Hey Rand, at least she has original ideas and doesn't have to rip them off from someone else.
To Ron Paul supporters, the son is not like the father. They are very much different. This guy is your typical conservative authoritarian, do not support him!
No, Benghazi will not preclude Hillary from running for President, However, Paul's Plagiarism WILL exclude him
FACT: No politician has clean hands and ALL of them have something or another that should prohibit them from running, but as long as they aren't child molesters, warmongers, murderers or tax cheats, I can live with it and this is not in defense of Hillary just a fair statement.
Lol at calling him a plagiarizer while the man who is VP that you support so strongly plagiarized a speech. Happens on both sides but you are all far too partisan to acknowledge that.
"He should be barred from being President for the sole fact that he quotes from wikipedia. College students even know not to do that so why would that make Rand qualified to be our President?"
To be fair, the vast majority of RWNJs I talk to or interact with in any way simply regurgitate verbatim whatever nonsense they saw on the intertubez, so I can see how they might think that doing the same thing makes him qualified.