Hilary Clinton never received the Democrat nomination to run for President in 2008, losing to Sen. Barack Obama, who eventually won the keys to the Oval Office. But he did appoint Hilary to the highly-coveted Secretary of State position, where she held court for four years, adhering to U.S. foreign policy. Near the end of her term, on the ironic date of September 11th in 2012, Libyan militants attacked the U.S. Mission in Behghazi, killing four Americans including an ambassador and a federal employee. Investigations took at least three years before Hilary was asked to testify before a Congressional committee on the tragedy.
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“I take responsibility for what happened in Benghazi,” said Clinton in 2015, long after she left her Secretary of State position, per Al Jazeera. Republicans persisted in pressing Clinton that she could have prevented the attack, which allegedly stemmed from a protest outside Mission gates. That’s when Hillary lost her cool. “With all due respect, the fact is that we had four dead Americans,” she shot back, per Reuters. “Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?” Clinton was cleared of any wrongdoing in 2016, during her election campaign. But it cast doubts on her credibility as a leader who may have let a dispute tragically spiral out of control.
