'Bill Clinton Would Have Fired Hillary'

Rand Paul blasts ex-secretary of state for ignoring Benghazi warnings

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DALLAS – Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., certainly seems to have no doubt Hillary Clinton will run for president, after delivering a number of pre-emptive broadsides on her fitness to hold the highest office in the land.

Speaking to the “Defending the American Dream Summit” sponsored by Americans for Prosperity over the weekend, Paul zeroed in on the one incident alone he believes disqualifies her: Benghazi.

Paul, who is widely considered to be preparing his own run for the White House, pointed to one mistake in particular he believed she made as secretary of state when terrorists overran the U.S. embassy compound in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, and killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

The senator said when Clinton testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 23, 2013, he asked her if she had read the numerous cables sent from Benghazi requesting more security in the weeks before the attack. “Cries for help,” he called them.

“She said, ‘Oh no, that wasn’t my job, that was the assistant’s job,’” recounted Paul.

He added, “For her to say she didn’t have time to read them, it was someone else’s job, it wasn’t her responsibility, is a dereliction of duty.”

The senator concluded that should disqualify Clinton from becoming president.

“If she wants to be commander in chief and she cannot protect our embassies … I think it precludes her from ever being commander in chief.”

Paul compared Benghazi to the Oct. 1993 incident in Mogadishu, Somalia, in which 18 American special operations forces died at the hand of terrorists, as was immortalized in the film “Black Hawk Down.”

The senator pointed out how the slaughter caused President Bill Clinton’s defense secretary, Les Aspen, to resign in disgrace.

“If Hillary Clinton had worked for Bill Clinton, she probably would have been fired,” Paul noted.

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