Equine excellence
American Pharoah’s (winner of racing’s triple crown) only imperfection, it seems, is that he doesn’t spell his name right.
Brent Pomeroy, Lakeport
Points of contention
I would like to investigate only one of Mac’s contentions in his Nov. 4 letter that Hillary Clinton lied to the people of the US about a video instigating the Benghazi attack.
10:08 p.m., Sept. 11, press statement:
“I condemn in the strongest terms the attack on our mission in Benghazi today. As we work to secure our personnel and facilities, we have confirmed that one of our State Department officers was killed. We are heartbroken by this terrible loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and those who have suffered in this attack.
“Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. …”
Sept. 14, remarks at transfer of remains ceremony:
“This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing to do with.”
Speaking before the Benghazi committee, “When I was speaking to the Egyptian prime minister or in the other two examples you showed, we had been told by Ansar al-Sharia that they took credit for it. It wasn’t until about 24 or more hours later, that they retracted taking credit for it.”
So, to the public Hillary did not associate the video with the attack on Benghazi. However, during the transfer of remains ceremony Charles Woods, the father of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, told Fox News: “I gave Hillary a hug and shook her hand and she said, ‘We are going to have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of your son.’” But how believable is this given that this would be a violation of the first amendment?
In any case, Hillary did not lie to the public. She is smarter than that. Most likely she never believed it was the video. Private conversations can not be fact checked but the public statements are recorded and can’t be refuted.
Hillary did not say the video caused the attack.
Kevin Bracken, Kelseyville
