Politics – Conservatives blast Clinton, Obama for Benghazi

On Tuesday, two Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee blasted Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration for “a tragic failure of leadership” before the Benghazi attack in 2012. Reps. Mike Pompeo and Jim Jordan accused the administration of covering up facts about Benghazi in order to avoid damaging President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. “What we did find was a tragic failure of leadership — in the run up to the attack and the night of — and an administration that, so blinded by politics and its desire to win an election, disregarded a basic duty of government: Tell the people the truth,” the congressmen wrote. “And for those reasons Benghazi is and always will be, an American tragedy.” The congressmen also wrote that the administration did not do everything it could to save Americans during the attack.