Hillary "Knowingly Lied" About Benghazi

National Review reports State Department emails, obtained as a result of Freedom of Information Act requests by Judicial Watch, show the following:

From the very first moments of the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides were advised that the compound was under a terrorist attack. In fact, less than two hours into the attack, they were told that the al-Qaeda affiliate in Libya, Ansar al-Sharia, had claimed responsibility.

The article contains a minute by minute tick-tock of what happened when and who knew when. It continues:

Despite this evidence that her top staffers were informed from the start that a terrorist attack was underway and that an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group had claimed credit for it, Secretary Clinton issued an official statement claiming the assault may have been in “response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.”

Gregory Hicks, Ambassador Stevens’ deputy who was in Tripoli at the time of the Benghazi attacks, (snip) further testified that the video was a “non-event” in Benghazi.

The article concludes by quoting the Judicial Watch president:

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton asserted that the e-mails left “no doubt that Hillary Clinton’s closest advisers knew the truth about the Benghazi attack from almost the moment it happened.” Mr. Fitton further opined that “it is inescapable that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knowingly lied when she planted the false story about ‘inflammatory material being posted on the Internet.’ The contempt for the public’s right to know is evidenced not only in these documents but also in the fact that we had to file a lawsuit in federal court to obtain them."

Notice the September 11 date, less than 2 months before the 2012 election. Her lie was in support of the President's false campaign claim that he had al Qaeda on the run.  The suppressed facts about Benghazi directly contradicted Obama's claim and supported the alternative narrative of opponent Mitt Romney.

Documented lying in high office, about matters of life and death, should entirely disqualify Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate. Unfortunately it will do no such thing, a sad commentary upon her party.