Washington – The parents of two Americans killed in attacks in Benghazi, Libya, say in a lawsuit that Hillary Clinton is responsible for the deaths of their children. A Clinton campaign spokesman rejected the accusations.
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The wrongful death lawsuit against Clinton, filed Monday in federal court in Washington, attempts to tie Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state to the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, in the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks.
The plaintiffs are Pat Smith of San Diego and Charles Woods of Portland, Oregon. Their sons, State Department employee Sean Smith and security contractor Tyrone Woods, respectively, were among those killed.
“As a direct result of Defendant Clinton’s reckless handling of this classified, sensitive information, Islamic terrorists were able to obtain the whereabouts of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and thus the U.S. State Department and covert and other government operations in Benghazi, Libya and subsequently orchestrate, plan, and execute the now infamous September 11, 2012 attack,” the lawsuit says.
Smith and Woods also are suing Clinton for defamation over public statements in which Clinton has denied telling the parents that the attacks were prompted by an anti-Muslim video on Youtube.com. Attorney Larry Klayman, a longtime critic of Bill and Hillary Clinton, is representing the parents.
Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said the Benghazi attacks have been exhaustively investigated. “While no one can imagine the pain of the families of the brave Americans we lost at Benghazi, there have been nine different investigations into this attack and none found any evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing on the part of Hillary Clinton.”
A special committee set up by House Republicans blamed the Obama administration for loose security in Benghazi, but did not level any direct accusations of wrongdoing at Clinton personally.
The Benghazi Committee revealed the use of the private server, which triggered a separate yearlong FBI investigation.
FBI Director James Comey said last month that there weren’t grounds to prosecute Clinton. But Comey said Clinton and her aides had been “extremely careless” in their handling of classified information.
Mark Zaid, a Washington lawyer who specializes in national security issues, predicted the lawsuit would be thrown out of court quickly.
“It has no chance of success whatsoever. It’s fundamentally and fatally flawed based on its legal and factual assertions,” said Zaid, who has filed several lawsuits seeking State Department records from Clinton’s tenure and also has provided advice to the Republican National Committee on obtaining Clinton records.
That’s right
Just read the complaint, and they make an assumption that the terrorists somehow found out the location of Ambassador Stevens by hacking into Clinton’s server.
They are crazy as hell.
Good. Let her see people are upset and that she is not going to be consistently treated as above the law, like she has until now.
Should should have done it a long time ago. But I understand that parents in such pain of loosing their children in period especially in neglect of the ones who’s supposedly protect, and make sure all men and women in uniforms are safe, that most be so hard to digest..
Hillary Clinton is a criminal! Instead of the White House she should go to the Prison House!
In view of the centuries old doctrine in English and American law granting immunity from tort liability to government officials acting in their official capacity, a doctrine that was even expanded by the Federal Employees Liability Reform and Tort Compensation Act of 1988, this appears to be nothing more than partisan publicity grand standing.
Are they not a little late??
Unfortunately for him, Ambassador Stevens was recklessly jogging around in Benghazi when identified by local militia killers and chased back into the lightly defended compound, which was not classified as an Embassy at the time. He frequently bike rode or jogged to be ‘among the people’, according to his friends, his reports and State Dept records. In no way was his death the result of Secretary of State Clinton, no more than the deaths of 220 marines in Lebanon the fault of Ronnie Reagan.
She didn’t provide help when they requested it, to me this sounds like valid grounds for a lawsuit.