Trump rages about impeachment on Twitter, but he has Republicans to blame for the rules

Trump and his GOP defenders can continue their crusade against the procedures Democrats are using, but those procedures were authorized and utilized by Republicans first. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-rages-about-impeachment-twitter-he-has-republicans-blame-rules-ncna1078921

GOP players in Benghazi probe drop strong defense of congressional oversight - The Washington Post

Several Republicans — Gowdy, Pompeo and Jordan — have joined President Trump in endorsing resistance to the House impeachment probe.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-players-in-benghazi-probe-drop-strong-defense-of-congressional-oversight/2019/10/09/9dc2a99e-eaa4-11e9-9c6d-436a0df4f31d_story.html

Trump praises N.H. lawmaker who called for shooting Hillary Clinton - POLITICO

While advising Trump in the summer of 2016, Baldasaro called Clinton a "disgrace" for her role responding to the 2012 attacks in Benghazi.....
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/15/trump-baldasaro-clinton-1466126

How Democrats Could Turn the Anti-Clinton Playbook Against Trump - Vanity Fair: Barrghazi

With impeachment a touchy subject and the White House stonewalling requests, Democrats are reportedly weighing a "Benghazi" strategy, starting with the attorney general.....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/democrats-could-turn-anti-clinton-playbook-against-trump-benghazi-barr-hearing

Fox News blames deaths of Americans in Syria on Hillary Clinton and Benghazi - Raw Story

Four Americans were killed in Syria, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday, yet Fox News was focused on the 2012 attack in Benghazi -- that also killed four Americans. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed two service members, a Defense Department civilian and a defense contractor. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/fox-news-blames-deaths-americans-syria-hillary-clinton-benghazi/

The big picture: Niger and what we know about what happened -- PolitiFact

An attack in Niger that left four American military members dead has triggered a fight between President Donald Trump and U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla. Wilson said that Trump's words of condolence to one of the widows were insensitive. Trump and chief of staff John Kelly in turn attacked Wilson for publicizing Trump's call. ....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/oct/22/big-picture-niger-and-what-we-know-about-what-happ/

Did Trump Just Have His Benghazi Without the Mainstream Media Even Noticing? | Alternet

Four U.S. soldiers are ambushed in Niger, and the political press shrugs....
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/did-trump-just-have-his-benghazi-without-mainstream-media-even-noticing

Lindsey Graham Invokes Benghazi in Attacking Trump Budget -- HuffPost

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that if "fully implemented," President Donald Trump's proposed cuts to State Department funding would lead to "a lot of Benghazi situations." ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-budget-benghazi-lindsey-graham_us_59249515e4b00c8df29f89a3?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

TPM: Crowd At GOPer's Town Hall: Investigate Trump Like You Investigated Benghazi

Constituents at Rep. Steve Womack's (R-AR) town hall on Tuesday pressed the congressman to investigate President Donald Trump's administration the same way elected Republicans investigated the 2012 Benghazi attack....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/steve-womack-town-hall-investigate-trump-like-benghazi

Slate: Senators Who Think Benghazi Is Worst Scandal Ever Threaten to Turn Every Embassy Into Benghazi

Remember Benghazi? Congressional Republicans have spent the past four years using the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya to go after Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration over their failure to protect American personnel overseas. Sen. Ted Cruz called for a joint select committee to investigate “why our facilities in Benghazi were not secure, why we didn't respond to the reports of terrorist activities, why we didn't have military assets in place to protect our brave men who were serving there.” And Sen. Marco Rubio accused Clinton’s State Department of an “extraordinary failure…to take appropriate action to protect Americans.” But now that Clinton has been defeated, both former presidential candidates are willing to use the safety of American diplomatic personnel as a bargaining chip. ...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/06/cruz_and_rubio_threaten_to_turn_every_embassy_into_benghazi.html

Picking Apart The New Benghazi Report (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

The long-awaited House Benghazi Report finds no new evidence of wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton. We’ll read the fine print and look at the big picture.
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/06/29/benghazi-report-clinton-us-house

Donald Trump wildly exaggerates Amb. Christopher Steven's requests for extra Benghazi security

The death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens came up as a topic during the second presidential debate Sunday night. ...

...Trump, apparently thinking that the drama unfolded at 3 a.m. in Washington, started referring to a famous Hillary Clinton commercial from her 2008 run for president, which argued that she was the best person for responding to a national emergency, as represented by a hypothetical 3 a.m. phone call to the White House.

Trump: "She said, 'Who is going to answer the call at 3 o'clock in the morning?' Guess what? She didn't answer because ... Ambassador Stevens sent 600 requests for help."

It’s hard to overstate how much is wrong here....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/14/donald-trump/donald-trump-wildly-exaggerates-amb-christopher-st/

Colin Powell Calls Trump a 'National Disgrace' in Hacked Emails

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell blasted Donald Trump as a "national disgrace" and criticized repeated investigations into the 2012 attack in Benghazi as a "witch hunt" in personal emails leaked online by hackers.

Powell, a retired 4-star general and a Republican, confirmed the authenticity of the emails to NBC News. "The hackers have a lot more," he added....
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/colin-powell-calls-trump-national-disgrace-hacked-emails-n648011

FBI turns up new Benghazi email ... which lavishes praise on Clinton

Bombshell! The FBI has found a previously unknown Benghazi-related email in its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. Then-U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Thomas Shannon, a veteran diplomat, sent the message to State chief of staff Cheryl Mills, who forwarded it to Clinton. The email reads in full:....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1567583

Mike Pence's inaccurate claim about Clinton's Benghazi role and response

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence officially accepted the GOP’s nomination for vice president July 21, 2016, in Cleveland, and didn’t miss a beat when it came to assailing Hillary Clinton.

"It was Hillary Clinton who left Americans in harm's way in Benghazi and after four Americans fell said, 'What difference at this point does it make?' " Pence said, eliciting loud boos from the audience. 

We’ve heard a version of this attack several times at the Republican National Convention, with some versions more accurate than others.

Both parts of this particular claim are inaccurate. There is no evidence showing Clinton personally "left Americans in harm’s way in Benghazi." And while he’s using Clinton words, he’s misattributing their meaning....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/21/mike-pence/mike-pences-false-claim-about-clintons-role-and-re/

Mark Geist - 'Stand-down' story ignores critical facts about effort to save Americans in Benghazi

When the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, came under attack on Sept. 11, 2012, the only United States force able to respond quickly was a CIA security team made of up of private contractors stationed in a nearby annex.

While promoting their bestselling book on the attack, at least three members of the six-person team have asserted that they defied "stand-down" orders to rush to stop the attack, which killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/18/mark-geist/stand-down-story-ignores-critical-facts-about-effo/

AP Fact Check: GOPers Twist Clinton's Words To Blame Her For Benghazi

Donald Trump's new running mate and other Republicans are wrongly accusing Hillary Clinton of speaking with indifference about the death of Americans in Benghazi, Libya — twisting her comments out of context to make their indictment.

A look at some of the claims from the stage of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night and how they compare with the facts:...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ap-fact-check-gop-attacks-benghazi

Benghazi Survivors Push Debunked Claim About 'Stand Down' Order At RNC

On the opening night of the Republican National Convention, two survivors of the 2012 attacks on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi pushed a favorite talking point among conservatives who have accused the federal government of a sluggish response in Libya: a debunked theory that military personnel were told to “stand down."

“On three separate occasions, we got told to wait by the chief of base, and we told us to stand down,” said John Tiegen, a security contractor working at the CIA compound the night of the attacks who co-wrote “13 Hours” with fellow ex-contractor Mark Geist.

“Stand down order be damned, we took off and left, we weren’t waiting no more," he continued.

But multiple fact-checking outlets have found no evidence that such an order was given by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/john-teigen-benghazi-debunked-claim

Mike Pence - Pence falsely says Clinton didn't 'send help' during Benghazi attack

Vice presidential nominees are often expected to act as attack dogs on a campaign ticket. Maybe Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was warming up for the role at a rally for Donald Trump in Indiana on July 12.

Pence rattled off a series of reasons Hillary Clinton was not fit for the presidency. One of them caught our attention, a claim about Benghazi, the Libyan city where a 2012 terrorist attack left four Americans dead.

"We don't need a president that took 13 hours to send help to Americans under fire and after four brave Americans fell said ‘what difference, at this point, does it make.’ Anyone who did that, anyone who said that, should be disqualified from ever being commander in chief of the armed forces," Pence said.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/14/mike-pence/pence-falsely-says-clinton-didnt-send-help-during-/

Slain Ambassador Chris Stevens' Sister Speaks Out: 'I Do Not Blame' Clinton

The day the House Benghazi Committee released its report on the two-year-long investigation into the 2012 terror attacks that left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others Americans dead, Stevens' sister said she doesn't blame Hillary Clinton.

Dr. Anne Stevens said in an interview with The New Yorker, published online Tuesday, that then-Secretary of State Clinton was "balancing security efforts at embassies and missions around the world."

"I do not blame Hillary Clinton or Leon Panetta," Stevens said when asked who she faults for her brother's death in Benghazi....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chris-stevens-hillary-clinton-benghazi