this is a prime example of one of the fake Facebook memes that has circulated. Oh yes, that is someone’s dead body all right, but it is not Chris Stevens, this was not Libya or Benghazi and this photo originally showed up on the internet long before 2012 – 2004 to be exact! And the photo of the victim was taken in the mid 1980’s – in Argentina…
Chris Stevens was not raped or tortured; Hillary Clinton is still criminally negligent and Tea Party people are ruining their brand with fictitious internet memes.
I cringe, pretty much daily, in response to much untrustworthy and counterfeit information that I see circulating in the ostensibly “conservative social media universe”. The reason that I resent it, is the pall that it casts on the intellectual capital on the right, and myself as a part of that community. What is it that troubles me? The propagation of faulty memes, narratives and rumors, which – when exposed to the harsh light of facts and verifiable data, collapse under their own weight. And, when they do – Democrats, Liberals and Progressives point to them as examples of the appalling lack of discernment on the conservative side. Speaking for myself, I prefer to be calling out Blasted Fools, not making one of myself.
Is this a problem and if so, why? Before I explain that, let me begin with an example of something ridiculous that is still in circulation and has been for over 2 years.
On Facebook, there is an anti-Hillary squib. Shown at the top of the page, it features an image that has been much in circulation, and the context and premise is obviously that Ambassador J.Christopher Stevens was taken by a mob of terrorists in Benghazi, murdered and mutilated. It was created as a hoax and remains so. I have reason to suspect that the person responsible intended to embarrass the easily taken in among the conservative milieu. Based on how viral it went – that apparently is quite a few. And leading the pack at the time, were Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and others.
The patently false rape story was relayed by a popular – and completely worthless blog called the Gateway Pundit, but also by Front Page Magazine. The founder and editor of the Gateway Pundit – Jim Hoft, was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013. That would be like former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner getting the Women’s Empowerment Award.
Now, before I continue further, allow me to take a moment to establish my anti-Hillary Clinton bonafides, because I know there will be some who will accuse me of trying to cut her a break here. They couldn’t be more wrong. I have been writing devastating critiques of Ms. Clinton for nigh on about 5 years, here on Blasted Fools and at other publications like CDN and I am in the finishing stages on a scathing book on her presidential bid. Now that that’s out of the way…
So, what is the issue? The issue is that no such thing happened and the above photo which depicts some terrible scene of the outcome of horrific violence to an unfortunate individual, is not Stevens. We will outline who it is and what led to their death and the truth will be more disturbing than the bogus narrative of that meme.
First though, what did happen to the Ambassador following the attack by a large rag tag contingent of Salafist jihadis loosely affiliated with al Qaeda? The terror group Ansar al Sharia comes up in some reports, but American officials readily admit they don’t know for certain and the known leaders of Ansar al Sharia deny involvement. One individual, Ahmed Abu Khattala, has been taken into custody at this point.
Well, we all know the story up to the point at which the Special Mission Compound was attacked. Hillary Clinton repeatedly ignored urgent requests to provide beefed up security for the compound. The UK’s Daily Mail reported that just hours before his death, he sent the Pentagon a cable describing ‘expanding Islamist influence in Dema,’ a town east of Benghazi, and said he was seeing a ‘troubling increase in violence and Islamist influence.’
On the day of the attack, 9/11/12 – we know that Stevens was trapped by a fire which started when diesel fuel was splashed on an area leading to the locked ‘safe haven’ by the militants. Stevens was in the safe haven with Special Agent Scott Strickland and Sean Smith, an information management officer. The safe room, which the attackers could not immediately breach, began filling with smoke. By the time the three decided to risk leaving the room through a window, only Agent Strickland made it out. He made some additional attempts to re-enter the room to find Smith and Stevens, but the dense smoke thwarted his efforts.
There were other security agents at the compound in another building that night, who each attempted to enter the safe room and were each in turn overcome with the smoke and had to exit, empty handed. When assistance arrived from the GRS team at the CIA Annex, they donned breathing masks and recovered Smith’s body, but not Stevens. The team, under fire from militants, retreated to the CIA annex without Stevens.
Some considerable time later after the band of terrorists considered its work finished and pulled out of the area, a group of curious local residents happened upon the smoldering remains of the compound. It’s critical at this point to understand that Stevens had been in a building, most likely in a semi-conscious state, ingesting smoke for approximately 3 to 3 ½ hours! Not knowing whether there were still victims of the attack inside, the party of curiosity seekers searched through the building and found Ambassador Stevens unconscious.
I should take a moment to comment on this part of the story. The manner in which events in what the State Department nicknames “the Sandbox”, are reported in the media, render a general impression on the person viewing the news that all cities in the Middle East and North Africa are just teeming with people who are belligerent, violent and hate Americans and Europeans. Naturally this impression leads us to think that the entire city of Benghazi was the security risk that Ambassador Stevens reported to his boss Hillary Clinton, because the neighboring community was full of Islamic fanatics. Such was not the case. The threat was specific as to consisting of external elements, not local residents.
I’ve reported on the attacks on Christians (Catholics and Coptics) in Egypt and outlined how non-Christians have often bravely attempted to come to the aid of the victims of Muslim Brotherhood attacks. What’s more, Ambassador Stevens was a person that had a very open and cordial relationship with the citizens of Benghazi. He attended social gatherings, dinners, and numerous other friendly interactions with members of the community and was thought of fondly as someone who had a key role in the events that led up to the overthrow of Gaddafi. Benghazi itself, was not riddled with jihadists.
The legitimate and real security threat that existed, stemmed from the marauding militia groups from outside the area. Until the Islamist militias began shaping up as a menace, beginning in May of 2012, Benghazi was a very hospitable environment for the Ambassador and his staff. Stevens would habitually go for morning runs in the neighborhood. He made and had many friends in Benghazi. The people who found him, were local residents.
As the Telegraph U.K. noted, most Libyans who voted in recent elections to reject pro-democracy Islamic parties, divided their blame between their own weak government and the forces seeking to undermine it. “We are so upset for what happened,” said Maher al-Senussi, an onlooker.
“Real Libyans cared about this guy, he was helping us. Believe me the majority are condemning this.”
Only two months prior, Mr Stevens sent an email describing how happy he was to have returned to a country “much more friendly” than when he was first stationed there under Col Gaddafi. “It is great to be back in the ’new Libya’, as people are saying,” he had said. It was a return that would claim his life.
So, in this instance, a handful of what can only be described as Good Samaritans in the truest sense, gathered up the seemingly lifeless body of the Ambassador and hurriedly attempted to get him to a local hospital – the Benghazi Medical Center. Unfortunately, Stevens was too far gone and even with the ministrations of an emergency room doctor, trying everything in the playbook for 45 minutes – succumbed to the effects of smoke inhalation. Smoke inhalation – not beatings, not rape, not torture, not stabbing or any other mob violence.
The attempted rescue of Stevens was captured on a smart phone video, which includes the following dialogue. “I swear, he’s dead,” one Libyan says, peering in. “Bring him out, man! Bring him out,” another says. “The man is alive. Move out of the way,” others shout. “Just bring him out, man.” “Move, move, he is still alive!” “Alive, Alive! God is great,” the crowd erupts, while someone calls to bring Mr. Stevens to a car. “Alive, Alive! God is great,” is not what we normally associate with extremists.
In the most negative context, “God is Great” would be an exultation from extremists in praise of Allah punching the ticket of an infidel. These men from the local neighborhood, on the other hand, were overjoyed at the prospect that they had perhaps actually been instrumental in discovering a fellow human being at death’s door and the opportunity to effect a rescue.
Eyewitnesses told the Associated Press that the scene was frantic and distressing. The Libyans who found him expressed frustration that there was no ambulance and no first aid on hand, leaving him to be slung over a man’s shoulder to be carried to a car. Here is the report in which CNN interviewed the young man who made a video of the attempted rescue. If he is a terrorist or a rapist, I am a Miss World contestant.
“There was not a single ambulance to carry him. Maybe he was handled the wrong way,” said Fahd al-Bakoush, a freelance videographer who shot the footage. “They took him to a private car.” The would be rescuers were under the likely mistaken impression that Stevens was still alive, and although technically that could have been the case, he was certainly unconscious.
“We were happy to see him alive. The youths tried to rescue him. But there was no security, no ambulances, nothing to help,” said Ahmed Shams, the 22-year-old arts student. When they entered the consulate, “there was no one around. There was no fire fighters, no ambulances, no relief,” said the photographer, Abdel-Qader Fadl.
Once admitted to the nearby medical facility, Benghazi Medical Center, he was attended to on an emergency basis by Dr. Zaid Bouzaid, or in other reports as his name is rendered, Dr. Ziad Abu Zeid and several nurses. The account comes to us from Nancy A. Youssef, a respected and reliable journalist with McClatchy News in the region, whose reports I have relied on in other research I have done on reports dealing with the Middle East and North Africa.
Bouzaid, who was working a 24-hour shift, had already seen 10 Libyans come in that evening with various injuries, all saying they had been under attack. In a city inundated with armed militiamen vying for power, rumors were swirling in the emergency room about who was attacking whom.
This time, however, the Libyans who arrived were carrying Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya. He’s a diplomat, someone said. As Bouzaid began attempting to resuscitate him, he looked at man’s face and recognized the popular ambassador immediately.
“I had seen photos of him on Facebook,” Bouzaid said. Stevens’ lips were covered in black and his body was “reeking of smoke. There was no sign of life. There was nothing.” Bouzaid said. Even though he appeared lifeless, Bouzaid, according to witnesses and hospital records, spent the next 45 minutes trying to revive him.
Bouzaid said his initial assessment was that the ambassador had suffered from suffocation and carbon monoxide poisoning. Patients can survive carbon monoxide levels below 60 percent. As Bouzaid kept trying to revive him, Stevens’ body only reaffirmed what the doctor already knew. Blood poured out his nose and mouth. “That happens in cases of severe poisoning,” Bouzaid said. Stevens’ carbon monoxide levels were above 60 percent.
There have been some anecdotal and inaccurate reports that Dr. Bouzaid’s hospital was under occupation of Ansar al Sharia militants that evening. The claim is fallacious. In the weeks after the attack on the compound, Ansar al Sharia, was routed out of Benghazi by residents, but in absence of any competent government security (due to Hillary Clinton’s having spearheaded the removal of Gaddafi), the group re-emerged, attempting to polish its image by providing security to various public buildings, including Benghazi’s al Jalaa Hospital – not Benghazi Medical Center.
In case you are wondering whether there is other confirmation of Dr. Bouzaid and his legitimacy, consider the account in Foreign Policy written September 24, 2012, of William Lawrence of the International Crisis Group, a personal friend of the Ambassador’s, and a person who interviewed Dr. Bouzaid personally:
The high-speed Tunisian taxi driver, who doubles as a freelance currency trader, told me, “More Libyans are coming every day. I’m making lots of money. It’s getting worse.” I thought for a minute about his unscientific sample and wondered, “How bad is it?” At Tunisian customs, I was all alone. The immigration official spent too much time half-heartedly scrutinizing my passport, then looked up and said, “You came in yesterday?” “Yes,” I replied. “It was not a good day for you.”
“Why?” I asked. He hesitated, then mumbled, eyes downcast, “It was 11 September.” He glanced up and returned my passport with a wince. Something was up, but I did not know what.
It was only when I arrived at Tripoli International Airport that I finally learned about the consequences of the attack on the U.S. consulate. I later learned that Chris had gasped his last breath just two or three hours before I had arisen, with Dr. Ziad Bouzaid at Benghazi Medical Center trying valiantly to revive him for 45 minutes. A few hours later his body would be lifted onto its last flight to Frankfurt amidst an outpouring of grief and disbelief on both sides of the Atlantic.
The only discrepancy between the version of events as provided by local residents and government reports, is that the State Department characterizes the party that delivered Stevens to Benghazi Medical Center, as “Libyan Security Forces”. I tend to think that was part of an attempt to stem the fallout from the negligence characterizing the whole affair – particularly the many requests for beefed up security from the Ambassador’s office that were rebuffed by Secretary Clinton.
From whence did the false report of Stevens’ death at the hands of militants originate? As for the claim that Stevens was raped, that seems to have originated from a story on the Lebanese news outlet Tayyar.org that erroneously cites the AFP Agence France-Presse , and that was picked up by the Washington Times.
The AFP told TWT that the “report falsely quoted our news agency and has no truth whatsover to it.” Tayyar.org describes itself as a newspaper and a political organization – the Free Patriotic Movement FPM, led by Michel Aoun. I’ll let you decide what degree of credibility and motivation would exist with such an arrangement, but the Tayyar report has no verifiable provenance.
None of the above detracts from the basic truth of Hillary Clinton’s criminal negligence and dereliction of duty. Chris Stevens, Sean Smith and the men who attempted to rescue them, Tyrone Woods and Glen Dougherty died needlessly.
The other take away should be that these bogus Facebook memes are no more credible than the initial story that was put forth by Hillary’s minions, that a YouTube video sparked the attack on the compound. The photo used in the meme, was traced back to the mid 1980’s, and which later surfaced among 6 others in a government scandal that led to an investigation of who the victims were and how they were killed. Thanks for this detective work on the origin of the photo, goes to Ross Elder, a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan.
Ross notes that when he discovered the Chris Stevens meme was based on a falsehood, quite a few Tea Partiers and so called ‘Patriots’ were not happy with him and that is putting it mildly. Some people have a greater vested interest in a notion even if it is patently false, than they do the truth. That the last hours of Chris Stevens’ life were not even more traumatic than they actually were, was hugely disappointing to those folks, because they felt that Stevens being raped and tortured is more damning than the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton simply not doing anything to launch a rescue at the compound.
Here, is a link to the original article in Diario DeLeon, an Argentine newspaper, where this photo was the featured photo in a story about an obscure government army militia training camp named Ouebrada de la Arena in the province of Cordoba where – according to the story told to Argentine government officials, the persons shown in the harrowing photos were supposedly army recruits who had agreed to be subject to experiments in withstanding torture. Apparently, if the account is accurate, those conducting the research got over enthusiastic, carried it to an extreme and wound up murdering their subjects.
The families of the victims received compensation in the form of proceeds from insurance policies. It was of little consolation. The psychology involved in this horror story would take another entire article to outline. When the photos and more specific details of the program surfaced in 2004, an investigation was launched by the late Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, whose wife Christina, succeeded him in the office as the current President.
Who would issue an insurance policy for such sordid goings on, is beyond comprehension – but this is Latin America in the late 1980’s after all. The news article is in Spanish, but if you are interested, you can have someone literate – not likely your pool boy or landscaping crew, translate it for you. The military training explanation is one possibility.
The other possible explanation is that the victims depicted in the photos were missing persons killed by government forces during the years known as the Dirty War (1976–1983); in which Wikipedia discloses that the “disappeared” were often tortured and killed before their bodies were disposed of in rural areas or unmarked graves.
researchers and investigation teams inspecting a site where Argentinian victims of the “Dirty War” were dumped
There were as many as 30,000 persons abducted by the Argentina military dictatorship during the “Dirty War” years. The government brutality sparked a protest movement of women whose children were missing. It was called the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. The song, “Mothers of the Disappeared” by U2, is a tribute to the struggles and suffering of the women of this campaign, some of whom themselves were kidnapped by the military, murdered and their bodies dropped into the Pacific Ocean.
In summing up, Please, for the love of Pete, don’t circulate these memes without doing a little research. Let’s rebuild our brand, one reality check at a time.
BenArnold
December 9, 2016
Even if he wasn’t raped, I think it helps draw more attention to this story. And so I’ll continue to say that I seen with my own eyes, Hillary Clinton jumping over the compound wall, dragging Stevens out of the building and over to President Obama (the 007 who killed Osama Bin Laden with his own two hands) where Hillary and Obama proceeded to rape Stevens. Hopefully my testimony will drive more people to research this incident and come to the conclusion for themselves that Satan is the real leader of America. All the politicians of America are just his puppets.
Lady liberty
October 29, 2016
If they cremated the body without the familys consent then they were trying to cover up something. The military has their procedures.
Brian Mader
October 16, 2016
This is what’s been floating around.
⚠ So here’s the REAL story. Amb. Stevens was sent to Benghazi post haste in order to retrieve US made Stinger missiles supplied to Ansar al Sharia without Congressional oversight or permission. Hillary brokered the deal through Stevens and a private arms dealer named Marc Turi. Then some of the shoulder fired missiles ended up in Afghanistan used against our own military. It was July 25th, 2012 when a Chinook helicopter was taken down by one of our own Stingers, but the idiot Taliban didn’t arm the missile and the Chinook didn’t explode, but had to land anyway. An ordnance team recovered the serial number off the missile which led back to a cache of Stingers being kept in Qatar by the CIA. Obama and Hillary were now in full panic mode and Stevens was sent in to retrieve the rest of the Stingers. This was a “do-or-die” mission, which explains the stand down orders given to multiple commando teams. It was the State Dept, not the CIA that supplied them to our sworn enemies, because Petraeus wouldn’t supply these deadly weapons due to their potential use on commercial aircraft. Then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus after he refused to testify that he OK’d the BS talking points about a spontaneous uprising due to a Youtube video. Obama and Hillary committed treason…and THIS is what the investigation is all about, why she had a private server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and why Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was because of a Youtube video, even though everyone knew it was not. Further…the Taliban knew that this administration aided and abetted the enemy without Congressional approval when Boehner created the Select Cmte, and the Taliban began pushing the Obama Administration for the release of 5 Taliban Generals. Bowe Bergdahl was just a pawn…everyone KNEW he was a traitor. So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised…and a woman that is a serial liar, perjured herself multiple times at the Hearing whom is running for POTUS. Only the Dems, with their hands out, palms up, will support her. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft was called in…because the administration knew our enemies had Stingers.
Naty
October 31, 2016
Wow, big accusations here… I never heard a diplomat, an ambassador sent 4 combact, retreiving missiles! you have a big imagination. All politica are a dirty game. If they should be in jail 4 treason then Bush,the war criminal with international warrant arrest on him, should be executed for killing 1000s of innocent soldiers going to look for weapons of mass destruction. He just finished what daddy Bush couldnt do, kill Saddam n they wanted all his oils to steal for America n personal gain
Melissa
April 8, 2018
You do realize that Obama presided over more wars, death and destruction than any other president, right? You haven’t been living under a rock, right?
Melissa
April 8, 2018
This is a most excellent summary and I agree but the question that begs to be answered is why? Why did they sell these weapons to our enemies? There are only two explanations, money or they are trying to destroy the US. I find money not to be very plausible explanation because surely they could have sold these to those without such a strong desire to destroy the US. So the only answer is they want to destroy the US? Makes no sense. These liberals are very self-destruction short sighted folks. I just hope enough people wake up before it’s too late.
Lindy
October 10, 2016
Sucking in smoke for 3 to 3.5 hours and he came out alive? Impossible.
Naty
October 31, 2016
From what i understood reading the article he escaped from the burning safe heaven room, he just went in a different direction n probably in a closed room whn he should have opted for the window.
J. Caballero
September 14, 2016
Manipulation of the masses at its best and very offensive.
Hillary Clinton described half of the Americans supporting Donald Trump as a “basket of deplorables” made up of “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” people. Worst of all, it’s a lie. How crass! What did you expect from Hillary.
This would be like me calling all Hillary supporters, many of which are friends and family, useful idiots that have no clue, moochers, slackers, unproductive, intellectual elitist wanna be’s and anti American growth fools. But I would never do that!
WAKE UP AMERICA! Pass it on please.
Vote Out Incumbents in 2016
September 6, 2016
Hillary has proven that anything she has said since her husband left office 16 yrs ago has been only self serving and based on lies and corruption. The reason Trump is running for office, even though he once supported her, is because he has seen those lies over and over and has publicly said that he feels this must be done and she must be stopped. Like him or not Donald Trump is doing us all a huge favor.
Naty
October 31, 2016
Trump didnt know she was running for president. This has nothing to do with her , he run for president for his personal gain. but he keeps feeding you his bull. His tactics are very canning, he finds the weak spot of his opponent n he attacks them on it. But now this is too much he playing the innocent who will drain the swamp! You think he never got bribed or bribe. Hillary is in politics 30yrs its normal to make mistakes. He has put his foot in his mouth on repeat & thats with not 1 day in office!
Melissa
April 8, 2018
Really? What’s his personal gain? The $1B he lost in a year? Or the $400k salary he’s not collecting? VS the Clintons who went from less than .5M to billionaires? Wake up.
Fred Marlin
August 18, 2016
Hard to read this small print. Make it bigger next time.
Nelson Donley
July 22, 2016
PLEASE PROVIDE ME WITH THE SOURCE AS PER WHAT YOU SAID RUSH LIMBAUGH DID IN “LEADING THE PACK”.
Tracy Lynne Henry
July 9, 2016
When I I hear her name I think of the four members that she let be mutilated in Bengasi! It makes me want to punch her in the nose!
Harry
September 30, 2016
You didn’t even read the article lol.
Hung phung
July 2, 2016
American is rescue even a Dog but why not Chris Stevens why why why. My heart is broken every time i see his face. How can we forget this even
Gregory Dunkling
June 30, 2016
I read the comments here and can only say: “God help us.” I have never seen such misinformed, armchair generals in my life. You have no understanding of Libya and no understanding of Chris Stevens and how he approached his work.
Rosemary
October 12, 2016
Amen, brother- voice of reason. I have been searching for the truth myself since I was not there either to interpret the saga as it unfolded. To me it’s all hearsay, something not admissible in a court of law. I did not know the man, Ambassador Stevens, except that he was born in the county I have resided in for over 50 years and his remains are buried here as well. I have read local newspaper articles about him. His grandfather was my history teacher in high school. I searched out the family cemetery plot and was there yesterday.
J. Christopher Stevens is resting in peace, beneath a towering cedar tree among other family members. Many American flags are placed around his gravestone. He died for the love and in the service of his country at the hands of an enemy. In that regard he died a meaningful and honorable death.
Visit his virtual memorial on Findagrave.com/j. Christopher Stevens. Honor his life with a bouquet of flowers and a comment if you so choose.
Gregory Dunkling
June 30, 2016
You are such pigs. The Stevens family has every right to say what they want. And their response? Their son, known for wanting to be on the ground with the people, was in a dangerous country and in a difficult time. Stevens knew this more than anybody. What right do you, sitting in the comfort of your living room, tell such nonsense? Your filth is reprehensible. Do you have such anger toward Reagan for the death of many Americans who died in the Embassy bombing. Oh, wait a minute, you never talk about that. Interesting.
Noreen
July 16, 2016
I am with you Gregory. Some people will just believe what they want no matter what the truth is. His family didn’t think Clinton was responsible and she wasn’t. Stevens knew the job was unpredictable. Security funding was also cut by the wonderful congress. There is blood a few peoples hands.
Kaydell Bowles
July 24, 2016
Neither, did the Germans believe those who was against Hitler, they like sheep stood up and shouted Heil Hitler! They believed press and all the pabulum fed them about how great the Fruher was. They too had minions like ours who write articles to make the Fascists look good.
Regardless, there was time to rescue the four but Hillary and President Obama did not do so! Say what you want, but Hillary and Obama lied to the American people and to the relatives of the dead at their burial. The Democrats got Richard Nixon out of office for lying yet the same people say “NO Foul on HIllary and Obama!!!
Michelek
September 5, 2016
Help! Help! Help! Help! Help!help! help!help!help!help!help, …… silence.
This night the blood is on Hilary. What was she doing for 13 hours? Maybe she can,t remember.
Richard
July 27, 2016
Hey Gregory, your the moron you pompas ass. All of a sudden you know everything.I don’t care who the Stevens family blame, they were lied to just like the Navy seals mother who said hillary lied to her. Hey jackass, my brother is a navy seal who was stationed over there at that time. I’m not going to explain shit to a retard like you. The truth is by westernjournalism.com /botched kidnapping on utube. Obama and Clinton are guilty of murder. Now dipshit, go away
J. Caballero
September 14, 2016
Chris Stevens asked for more security on several occasions. Through e-mails to Hillary. He made calls to deputy directors and would have called Hillary directly if he had her number. It seems amazing that all ambassadors don’t have the secretary of states number. It’s great Obama finally found someone to take that post September 11, 2016. How long has it been? Try four whole years to the day. No one wanted it until Debra Jones took it. What did they offer the poor girl? Dunkling, if Chris Stevens was still alive today, who do you think he’d vote for? TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP!
One more thing drunkling, you are a MORON and an IMBECILE!
cobb
October 26, 2016
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/chris-stevenss-family-dont-blame-hillary-clinton-for-benghazi
V Riley
June 29, 2016
It’s absolutely insane how the f’ed up progressives ignore facts. This is how hitler came to power.
Genie Schubert
June 29, 2016
looking back on Gaddafi overthown and subsequent death video’s saw one with stevens standing there in the crowd looking over the crowd at the body of Gaddafi being dragged through the streets.He wasn’t even supposed to be there then according to the media. I tried to find the video again to no avail.I honestly think Stevens was a sacrificial lamb sent to slaughter.Damn shame .Shame about the other men that tried to save Stevens as well. I am relieved to hear that Stevens did in fact die of smoke inhalation and not rape and torture,Although dead is in fact dead the way he went eases my mind a bit . I do wonder why these bodily remains were cremated and Mrs Stevens never got to see her sons body very odd I would say .The other mes remains were also cremated the reports say ,is this tre or more media BS?
Sean
June 27, 2016
This artical is what it is, we all know 99% of anything on fb is bs. My question is why you single out conservatives? Demarcate, Liberals, Republicans, and all others put just as many bs memes on fb. If you want your story to hold any depth to it then stop singling out one group of ppl and saying there the ones always putting bs propaganda on fb. I really wish I knew were to go to get info from some good down to earth honest American journalist. I like so many other Americans are so fucking sick of listening to all you bash on party or another. Have you all not figured out that the moment you do that we instantly know some if not all your story is bs!!!
Richard Cameron
June 27, 2016
If you had followed my body of work – not that I expected you to, you would realize that I identify as a conservative or at least, a Constitutionalist. I certainly agree that Democrats and Liberals (whatever distinction may exist) put false memes and narratives on social media. I’m not advising them how to clean up their mess – that is their responsibility. This article was partially a shout out to the liberty movement to stop supporting clickbait sites and hoaxes. It has had a devastating effect on our credibility.
David Fisher
June 26, 2016
Dead is dead.
Sandra
June 21, 2016
Hillary Is Still GUILTY Of NOT DOING ANYTHING To HELP OUR SOLDIERS ! HILLARY N OBAMA PLANNED To KILL OUR MILITARY!
Noreen
July 16, 2016
What do you think she should have done.? You know nothing of conditions in Libya, most of us don’t. Congress is guilty for cutting funding for security, but no one says anything about that
alex
December 5, 2016
Why was security funding cut? Was it too many costly vacations?
Naty
October 31, 2016
I grew up in Libya n i can tell you its conditions are very basic.There was just not enough security there like other embassies.If they attacked him how many minutes USA had to respond, it all happened so fast.Its easy to point fingers, also Embassy in Tripoli didnt answer the first two calls we’re gonna blame them for wasting time? it was a very sad thing n i still to this day can look his picture.
Maggie
June 14, 2016
Sorry Hillary. Not buying this article for a second!
Richard Cameron
June 21, 2016
then, Maggie – you prefer contrived memes and hoax narratives to reality. Everything I reported is documented fact. There is no documented fact in the Alt-Right agit prop clickbait sites that dangle lies in front of your face without the slightest shred of substantiation. Worse, yet – when you fact check them, they fall completely apart. But they serve you what you are looking for. Just curious – since my narrative was confirmed by the men on the ground who defended the compound – what part of it do you challenge as not factual?
Sean
June 27, 2016
I find that hard to believe since they are all sworn to secrecy in there debriefings. And the fact that even you claim hillary is still guilty just showes that the small stupid rumers don’t matter. Put the lady in jail, anyone of us would of already been there.
Richard Cameron
June 27, 2016
Sean, you don’t seem to understand. The guys that are portrayed in the “13 Hours” film are ex-Special Ops and were working as Security Contractors. They are not “sworn to secrecy”. Perhaps, rent a copy of the movie. The plot of the film itself, backs up my reporting on the outline of events. The “small, stupid rumors” DO matter. Why? Because when we traffic in false narratives and hoaxes, it places everything that is credible in terms of Hillary’s treachery in the cross hairs of Fact Checkers. When I write anything, one of the things that is top of mind is, “I have to be sure of my facts, or a liberal / progressive / Democrat will spot a fallacy or inaccuracy and discredit everything else I’ve written.” If someone prefers fabrications, I guess that is just a matter of taste.
Amanda Clark
June 10, 2016
I have been absolutely SICK to my stomach thinking that Chris Stevens was brutalized and killed. This article really helped set my mind and troubled heart at ease. I too believed the other reports and memes but now I don’t. Thank you so much for taking the time to post this. It was still shameful that Killary left them to fend for themselves and I pray she goes down for it!
Mark Thibodeau
June 8, 2016
A pretty decent article (aside from the knee-jerk Hillary bashing), followed by the expected conservative movementarian idiocy in the comments.
Dan
June 8, 2016
I love how article says other articles are wrong because of the website they are posted on and look at this website.. hahahaha best case of irony yet
Susan Troxell
April 23, 2016
You did not listen to Congressional Testimony. ..that is plain to see. We are not stupid.
Sharp in LA
March 8, 2016
Special Mission Compound…aka interrogation (torture) center and weapons running hub for destabilizing unrighteous Gentile-ruled Middle East Muslim nations. The guy deserved everything he got.
Michelek
September 5, 2016
I hope you get everything you deserve one day. I hope it starts today. Enjoy!
Rhonda
February 18, 2016
Frank is an imbecile.
Frank
January 24, 2016
There was no criminal negligence. If there were she would not have made it through the Republican investigations. Come on, get real? It was Libya, one of the most dangerous countries in the world. No one can guarantee complete safety for Americans abroad, so lets stop trying to fool everyone into thinking Republican have all the answer. The truth is, if it were not for the Democrats, the Republicans would not know what to to think.
Karen
February 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton is a proven liar. Anyone who’s dumbed down enough to defend such a corrupt crap bag is of very questionable character and integrity.
Michele Morin
May 10, 2016
@Karen… I have yet to meet a politician who isn’t a proven liar on some self-serving agenda. It depends if it is a pattern of pathological lying (which this isn’t), and after siting through 11 grueling hours at the hands of the GOP with their own agenda, basically turned up nothing. That isn’t dumbed down, it’s just the facts. Being dumbed down is the people who insist Stevens was sodomized, tortured and castrated when he actually died of smoke inhalation from carbon monoxide. Many Good Samaritan Libyans who took him to the hospital are obvious objective witnesses. Maybe check on your own character and integrity.
Chuck Snow
May 2, 2016
In this case the republicans DID have the answer, to allow the ambassador the same Marine protection every other Ambassador gets. Or to allow the Marine Expeditionary Force floating just off shore, and straining at the end of their liberal democrat imposed leash, to go in and rescue the Ambassador and the other Americans that were instead allowed to be slaughtered SLAUGHTERED that night.
I see you enjoy the democrat kool-aid.
Me, I am but a humble Marine. Who had access to intelligence that night. What do you have access to, other than CNN and MSNBC? Go back to baking muffins, honey. You add nothing to the conversation.
Richard Cameron
May 12, 2016
Chuck – I am the author of the article. I think you are responding to a couple of the other commenters. For the record – and I didn’t really delve into it a great deal in this report, Hillary Clinton as a matter of objective fact, is directly involved in the circumstances that led to the death of the Ambassador and the 3 other brave men. You are absolutely correct that assets were available to defend the compound and that she was part of the chain of decision making, that denied help.
There is also a compelling body of circumstantial evidence suggesting that Clinton intentionally left the SMC vulnerable, because it was a clearing house for transiting weapons to the so-called “moderate rebels” in Syria, who even at that time, were recognized by counter-terrorism experts in the region as jihadists.
If any of my critics had actually been objective enough to see the film “13 Hours”, they would be hard pressed to say those men – the Spec Ops guys on the security team, are lying. Hillary is the liar and she has a track record to prove it. My report was validated by Kris “Tanto” Paronto. He was an eye-witness participant in the local rescue effort and defense of the compound and annex. I’ll take his word over anyone else’s.
I also stand by my contention that Hillary Clinton has committed enough crimes to send an ordinary mortal to several life terms in a federal prison, and so it is not necessary for anyone to gin up memes like that to add a Cherry on top. If anything, hoax memes erode our credibility.
Lee
July 31, 2016
Thanks for your service, and your clarification.
Michelek
September 5, 2016
CHUCK SNOW, Yours will be the last comment I read, THANK YOU. The rest are making me feel nauseous. How dare they comment on the efforts of those brave men and not own up to her lack as a leader just because she’s a democrat. It is so sickening.
zooch234
May 11, 2016
This changes nothing on the point that our 4 Americans were abandoned by Hillary and Obama you cannot fix our brand that’s the truth, by the way how dies smoke get into a safe room and how do guys Jump out the window????
Michelle Matsko
August 8, 2016
My question as well!
Noreen
July 16, 2016
EXACTLY
Michelek
September 5, 2016
FRANK,FRANK,FRANK, Little low informed Frank! You did see the talking Sunday afternoon heads, including Hilary and Obama blaming it on a you tube video fo 22 days. While her emails reveal that she spoke with the Egyptian president and her daughter about the planned terrorist attack the morning after. So that Obama could keep his “terroist have been defeated” message to get re-elected. Enjoy the rest of her lies as the are revealed through the recovered emails that she couldn’t remember deleting.