Hillary Clinton's communication line during her years as Secretary of State continue to haunt her up to now. Her use of a personal e-mail server has blotted her trustworthiness to the public and recently, points her to be blamed for the 2012 American deaths in Benghazi, Libya.
NPR reports that a lawsuit against the Democrat nominee claims that Islamic terrorists were able to invade the Benghazi U.S. compound where Ambassador Chris Stevens was because of Clinton's use of a personal email server. This made it easier for the killers to track the ambassador's whereabouts and attack the compound where three Americans and the Ambassador himself were killed.
On September 11, 2012, Israeli militants set a U.S. 13-acre compound in fire. Inside a building called Villa C were Ambassador Chris Stevens, Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and a security guard. After assuming the building was safer ground, they took refuge in it when armed militants entered the compound (via CNN).
Unfortunately, the building got engulfed in black smoke that shut down the lights and trapped them in smoky darkness. The security guard was later saved but Smith and Stevens, who were separately retrieved, died from asphyxiation (via CNN).
A gun battle commenced when the rescue team transferred from Villa C to the Annex. When they got to the Annex, bullets were fired. Everyone was safe but it wasn't the last of the attacks because hours after, gunshots reached the facility with mortars that killed security officers, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty (via CNN).
According to International Business Times, the deadly Benghazi siege even became more controversial because it was the first time an American ambassador got killed overseas since 1979. This ensued the Republicans to hit on the Democrats with the White House's failure to respond accordingly, Obama mislabeling the atacks, and Hillary Clinton's handling of the State Department that wasn't able to provide enough security and equipment to prevent the attacks from happening in the first place.
While Clinton never paid any charges of the Republicans, this time she is receiving the wrath of Pat Smith, mother of Sean Smith, and of Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods. Apart from the personal e-mail server issues, the parents of the Benghazi attack victims are suing Hillary Clinton for negligence, infliction of emotional distress, and defamation (via NPR).
At the Republican National Convention held last month in Cleveland, Pat Smith spoke the words "I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son." Clinton was quick to respond that investigation of the Benghazi siege revealed that security forces during that time were not handled by the Democrat nominee but by the career State Department officials (via NPR).
Clinton's spokesman also noted that out of the nine investigations done for the Benghazi siege, none provided proof that Clinton was at fault. The Democrat nominee also has little to worry about, according to lawyers, because the Benghazi lawsuit might not even proceed to court.
The government can take Clinton's position as the defendant in the case. A federal official's conduct is still authorized conduct and under the Westfall Act, the U.S. government must correctly take the official's place as the defendant.
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