Ambassador Thomas Pickering: Clinton Didn’t Make Benghazi Call

Ambassador Thomas Pickering, who co-chaired the Accountability Review Board says responsibility rested well below the level of Secretary of State Clinton.

“They’ve tried to point a finger at people more senior than where we found the decisions were made,” Pickering, whose career spans four decades, said of Clinton’s critics.

The Accountability Review Board, which Pickering headed with retired Adm. Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not question Clinton at length about the attacks but concluded last December that the decisions about the consulate were made well below the secretary’s level.

Pickering and Mullen’s blistering report found that “systematic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels” of the State Department meant that security was “inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place.”

By: William

retired military , former cop, lifelong gym rat and doting grandfather alive and living in Maine