Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Wednesday ripped former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s handling of the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Appearing on the “Hugh Hewitt Show,” the former Hewlett-Packard CEO vowed that if she is the GOP nominee she would make the 2012 assault on the U.S. compound in Libya an issue and that she would ask pointed questions of the Democratic front-runner.
{mosads}“… I would ask is why were you willing to peddle a fiction about Benghazi, starting as you stood over the bodies of four murdered Americans and for a month after that? Why were you willing to do that?” Fiorina said.
Four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, were killed in the attack.
Fiorina’s comments are the latest sign that Republicans intend to stick with the incident as a campaign attack line.
On Monday, Clinton agreed to testify to the House Select Committee on Benghazi, possibly as soon as this month. She refused a request by panel Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) to testify a second time, however.
Fiorina said, “if it’s all that he can get, it’s better to hear something than nothing, I guess” but predicted the hearing “probably won’t be terribly satisfying, unfortunately.”
She also said Clinton and her team “knew what she was doing” when she wiped clean the private email server she had used as the nation’s top diplomat.
“I’m sure they had lots of conversations with lots of lawyers, and they feel that they’re on firm enough legal ground that that server can’t be subpoenaed,” according to Fiorina. “But again, this doesn’t help her establish a track record of transparency or trustworthiness. And I think leaders require people to trust them. And she’s not building that level of trust.”