Ray McGovern displaying the aftermath of his arrest during a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Feb. 15, 2011.
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Ray McGovern displaying the aftermath of his arrest during a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Feb. 15, 2011.
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Similarly, Secretary Clinton attributes to GWU the claim that I "was not in any way injured." Case closed. ... except for the photos sent around on the Web a few days earlier.
So, as you might guess, there was no apology from the Secretary of State or a statement that perhaps the "unfortunate incident" with McGovern had unfortunately stepped on her passionate and surely heartfelt denunciation of Iran for not respecting the right of dissidents to protest their government's policies.
Targeting Gaddafi
But the incident with me was minor compared to what Secretary Clinton was then cooking up for Libya, where she was outraged that Col. Muammar Gaddafi was citing the need to root out Islamic terrorists operating around Benghazi. Dismissing Gaddafi's claims, Clinton and her State Department preferred to denounce Gaddafi's domestic "war on terror" as a "genocidal" attack on innocent dissenters in eastern Libya.
Again, Clinton was communicating with her outside adviser Blumenthal about how to rile the world up enough against Gaddafi to push a "no-fly zone" through the United Nations Security Council.
Secretary Clinton's private emails also contradict her testimony before the House Benghazi Committee that Blumenthal "was not at all my adviser on Libya," although I guess it depends on what your definition of "adviser" is. The emails show that she actually took immediate proactive steps to follow up on his advice, as can be seen in the following:
From: sbwhoeop [Sidney Blumenthal]
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