Clinton Emails: It Looks Like She Was An Architect Of The Benghazi Lie

Susan Rice, U.S. national security advisor, visits Afghanistan. View Enlarged Image

CCorruption: The White House's tale that the Benghazi terrorist attacks were caused by a video was long ago revealed as a lie. Still unclear was Hillary Clinton's role in fabricating the story. But that's clearing up now.

On Sept. 16, 2012, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice went on five Sunday TV news shows to explain why a few days earlier attacks on U.S. State Department facilities in Benghazi, Libya, killed four Americans, including our ambassador. It was all just a demonstration provoked by an Internet video that got out of hand, Rice said.

It was a cover-up, of course. Rice was pushing in a re-election year a fiction that the administration believed would do the least amount of damage to President Obama's campaign.

The administration couldn't allow itself to admit that things were going poorly in the Middle East after it had been saying progress was being made.

Clinton herself went with the story even though she knew it wasn't true. But was she merely a cog in the conspiracy to cover up the truth, or one of its planners?

An email from a batch released Monday strongly suggests she was an architect.

Her schedule, the Washington Examiner has reported, shows that Clinton met with Rice in Clinton's office from 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Sept. 14, 2012 — two days before Rice misled the American people.

The emailed schedule shows only that a meeting with Rice was planned. No subject was referenced. But a previously released Sept. 14, 2012, email that White House aide Ben Rhodes sent to several high-ranking administration staffers had the subject line: "RE: PREP Call with Susan: Saturday at 4:00 p.m. ET."

At that prep session, Rice was told "to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy."

Was this narrative concocted that morning when Clinton and Rice met? And did Clinton participate in the prep session? Her schedule indicates that she was back in her office by 3:30 p.m. She could have orchestrated the session in a videoconference after she returned from Andrews Air Force Base, where she greeted the remains of the Benghazi victims and told their families the same lie that Rice told the nation.

Neither Clinton nor Rice, who failed upward into the job of national security adviser, will ever say the truth, even under oath, we'd imagine.

So all we have are conjecture backed by the steady drip of Clinton emails.

About those emails: They continue to plague the former secretary of state's presidential aspirations, and could, if a Politico story published Tuesday is right, knock Clinton out of the race entirely.

Reporters Bob Cusack and Ian Swanson speculate that FBI Director James Comey, though an Obama appointee, just might derail Clinton's campaign through the FBI's investigation into the personal email account and private server she used while at State.

If Comey indeed recommends that Clinton be prosecuted, he'd be justified. Nearly 1,000 Clinton State Department emails from her personal account had classified material on them.

Given this reality, it would not be outrageous if Clinton were indicted for violating the Espionage Act. She is clearly guilty of "gross negligence" in handling "information relating to national defense," a dangerous breach of our security. Those found guilty of such an offense can find themselves in prison for 10 years.

Of course, Clinton will never be a federal inmate. But a simple indictment is needed, if only to show that our nation's justice system still works.

It might also save the country from a four- to eight-year prison stint that would also be known as the second Clinton administration.

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