Benghazi: “Find them and bring them to justice” said Hillary many years ago
You may remember Hillary as saying, about the Benghazi killings of four Americans, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” It was infuriating. The context was that she was shrugging off (and misrepresenting) the details, including the motives of the perps, as though it didn’t matter, and supposedly focusing on future prevention. But of course it mattered. If you want to prevent something you have to know who did it and why.
Hillary followed it with the statement that the perps needed to be found and brought to justice. Here’s her testimony;
The Trump administration decided to do just that: find them and bring them to justice, all these years later. That is,
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that Zubayr Al-Bakoush was flown to the United States overnight and will face federal charges tied to arson, murder, and terrorism for his alleged role in the assault that killed four Americans. …
“We will prosecute this alleged terrorist to the fullest extent of the law,” she said, adding that the message is simple: time does not erase accountability.
Pirro echoed that warning, stressing that the case is not over simply because years have passed. “The Benghazi saga was a painful one for Americans. It has stayed with all of us,” she said. “And let me be very clear, there are more of them out there.” Pirro said she and Patel have remained in contact with the families of the four Americans killed and vowed that investigators will continue hunting down those still at large. “Time will not stop us from going after these predators, no matter how long it takes,” she said. “We owe that to the families who suffered horrific pain at the hands of these violent terrorists.”
Remember the gaslighting assertions, asserted at max volume, “THERE WAS NO STAND DOWN ORDER!!!!”?
Over and over. As if it meant anything.
You don’t need a stand-down order unless there was a stand-up order. Where was the stand-up order?
I was at Ft. Bragg the summer of ’70 when the Jordan alert (Dawson’s Field alert) happened. Finished class one day, coming off the three mile run and a major was yelling, “Post is closed, return tot quarters.” The whole place was getting spun up; the alert brigade of the 82d to jump on the field (east of Amman in Jordan) with a second wave of every combat arms guy they could scrape up who wasn’t jump-qualified to deplane like gentlemen.
Turned out the passengers were spread out too far to be rescued. Unlike Entebbe six years later. So the op was cancelled.
Point is, we know what to do if a stand-up order is given. Plans are in the filing cabinets and reviewed regularly,
And then, the 173d Abn Brigade was in Viet Nam. When the Benghazi thing went down, it was in Vicenza, Italy. NATO’s airborne quick reaction force. Available maybe an hour away.
So, morons, where was the stand-up order and why not?
Bringing them to ‘justice’ is useless because it won’t act as a deterrent. The left will make it a political non-starter to execute them. After a decade or two in prison, if not sooner, the left will release them.
Conversely, execution in a decidedly ‘unclean’ manner would deter future terrorist acts because by their own beliefs, execution in such a manner will permanently deny them entrance into ‘paradise’. You deter a mortal enemy by connecting to their actions, what for them is unimaginable consequence, reversing the risk/reward ratio.
Christopher Stephens
Sean Smith
Glen Doherty
Tyrone Woods
Remember their names.
@Geoffrey Britain:Conversely, execution in a decidedly ‘unclean’ manner would deter future terrorist acts because by their own beliefs, execution in such a manner will permanently deny them entrance into ‘paradise’.
You keep saying this and it keeps not being true. Muslims did not leave other religions a cheat code to keep them out of heaven. It’s not true for Jews either for that matter. Muslims can even eat pork in cases of necessity. Shahid are not supposed to even be washed even if they died in a pork packing plant.
It would just make them mad, not be any kind of deterrent at all. Israelis already tried this in 2002 and it obviously doesn’t work.
Hillary is a loathsome scumbag.
I have no way to prove this, but I am convinced that Sandy Berger took some very sensitive documents from a SCIF, that the Clinton’s have used as a force field against legal consequences.
The (oft derided here) blogger Sundance produced what he called The Benghazi Brief. IIRC he claimed that the Obama administration ran an off-the-books operation (Operation Zero Footprint) involving an arms transfer. In order to preserve deniability when the operation went south, the four Americans were not rescued, and Susan Rice went on the Sunday shows to repeat the lie that the consulate was attacked out of anger over a YouTube video which disrespected Islam.
Sometimes Sundance is wrong, sometimes he is out of his depth, but reading his piece made me respect him and not automatically disregard his writings.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/11/13th-anniversary-of-the-benghazi-attack-the-benghazi-brief/