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https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/05/26/hillary-clinton-benghazi-email-suits-dismissed-238880By JOSH GERSTEIN 05/26/2017 10:58 PM EDT
A federal judge in Washington has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Hillary Clinton's lax security surrounding her emails led to the deaths of two of the Americans killed in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson tossed out the wrongful death claims as well as allegations that Clinton essentially slandered the parents of the deceased by contradicting accounts the parents gave of events related to their children's deaths.
The suit was filed last August by Patricia Smith, the mother of State Department information officer Sean Smith, and Charles Woods, the father of CIA operative Tyrone Woods.
The parents sued weeks after Patricia Smith took to the stage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland to deliver an emotional speech blasting the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and for failing to save the four Americans who died in the Benghazi attack while she was secretary of state: Smith, Woods, CIA operative Glen Doherty and U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
In Jacksons opinion, she writes:
hlthe2b
(105,026 posts)BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)They were hurt and vunerable. Now, because of this whole fiasco, they will likely also be bitter, angry, distrustful of anything Dem and unreachable.
Fullduplexxx
(8,126 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)going to ask the Courts for relief via Liable Laws. Three years of this garbage has to stop.
I hope she can go after Trey Gowdy and Darrel Issa for every penny they've got, those malicious bastards!
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)UTUSN
(71,917 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)mnmoderatedem
(3,817 posts)the 60 who died including 4 Americans in the embassy attacks when W was president.
Republicans have the selective outrage thing down pretty effectively, I'll give them that.
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)He has more responsibility for Benghazi than Clinton does.
ffr
(22,993 posts)Party and greed over country
every
single
time.
mountain grammy
(27,015 posts)Who even know what fresh horror from the asshole in chief buried this story that day.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Some things will never change.
Wounded Bear
(60,060 posts)shit like this is never over for the RWers.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They get too much mileage from it. It riles up the deplorables, even though about 95% of them would be hard pressed to tell you one detail about the incident. They are a sickening lot.
cant imagine anything that would dampen their delusions.
H2O Man
(74,814 posts)Good news!
malthaussen
(17,528 posts)No more pending lawsuits?
Not that it will ever be "over," despite what some court says.
I do note this is from May of 2017. I have still heard Righties bitching about Benghazi, although mostly what I hear is them explaining why Donald Trump is being treated unfairly.
-- Mal
thesquanderer
(12,241 posts)It looks to me like the story didn't in any way clear Hillary of messing up; rather, it said that, if she messed up, it was done within the proper scope of her official government duties and so was not subject to lawsuits. So from a RW perspective, even though the ruling was in Hillary's favor, I don't think it did her any favors. It will not persuade anyone who thought she might have done something wrong that, in fact, she didn't.