Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign: Benghazi, Email and other fake scandals

By Will Stabley | April 13, 2015

Hillary Clinton has announced her campaign for the 2016 Presidential election, and she’s already being cautiously cheered on by liberals and moderates while being booed by conservatives, as one might have predicted. Because she’s been in the public eye and political arena for so many decades, Hillary is the rare candidate in which all of her scandals – real and manufactured – are already well laid out before her campaign has already begun. Two in particular, Benghazi and her use of email, will come into sharp focus even though neither is based in any substance.

The U.S. Embassy in Benghazi was attacked while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, and four American citizens died in the process. She had repeatedly asked for embassy funding to be upgraded prior to the attack, but was shot down by republicans in Congress. Despite rampant claims that the Americans were told to “stand down” while they were being attacked, the congressional panel which investigated the attacks – a panel led by republicans – concluded that neither President Obama nor Secretary Clinton did anything wrong or improper in relation to Bengazhi. Still, Hillary’s conservative opponents have repeated the word so often that it’s become a scandal in the minds of both those who hate her and those who don’t pay close enough attention to know fact from fiction.

And then there’s the recent email “scandal” in which it was revealed that Hillary Clinton used her private email account while she was Secretary of State. While her opponents claim that this was a security risk, it’s been documented that the use of private email was rampant during the Bush administration and was considered common practice by the time Hillary was appointed. And while such use of private email was ultimately forbidden by Obama, that didn’t occur until after Hillary had retired from her position. One can only hope that these two imaginary scandals will be seen through quickly by the voting public, so they can judge Hillary Clinton’s worthiness for the White House based on factual and accurate pros and cons.