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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan took no prisoners on Friday’s broadcast when he condemned the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton for what he called a pattern of political calculation that left Americans in Benghazi exposed and betrayed. Jordan said the new rounds of documents and testimony only reinforce what conservatives have argued for years: the people in power put politics above the lives of our diplomats and security contractors.
The Benghazi Select Committee’s final report and the GOP supplemental findings laid out a litany of failures — from ignored security warnings to chaotic coordination — and concluded there was a tragic failure of leadership. These are not the idle accusations of partisan operatives but the results of a lengthy congressional inquiry that documented how decisions and denials by the State Department and White House contributed to the deaths of four Americans.
Perhaps the most damning detail remains the contrast between public statements and private admissions, with Secretary Clinton allegedly telling aides and family the attack was a terrorist strike even as the White House pushed a video narrative to the public. That public-private split is not some minor gaffe; it reads like a cover-up engineered to protect an administration’s legacy during an election year.
Conservatives who warned about loose, interventionist foreign policy and hollow reassurances were proven right yet again, and Americans whose loved ones died deserve more than bland apologies and political theater. If the leadership that sent our people into harm’s way won’t own up, Congress and the courts must keep pressing until every question is answered and every responsibility is assigned.
Jim Jordan’s blunt charges resonate because they tap into a broader crisis of trust in institutions that claim to protect us but too often shield themselves. Patriotism means demanding accountability — not protecting reputations at the expense of truth — and the families of the fallen deserve nothing less than the full, unvarnished story.
Hardworking Americans know instinctively that our government’s first job is the safety of its citizens, and that promise was broken in Benghazi. It’s time for right-thinking leaders to stop making excuses, keep the pressure on, and restore honor to the men and women we send into dangerous places to represent the United States.
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