So there’s an error in Hillary Clinton’s new book

Published June 9, 2014 7:46pm ET



Just hours after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made headlines Monday for claiming that her family was “dead broke” when it left the White House in 2001, CNN’s Jake Tapper flagged a factual error in her new book, “Hard Choices.”

Clinton wrote that during the 2012 terrorist attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, Marines were stationed at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli. This is incorrect. Marines weren’t sent to defend the embassy in Tripoli until after terrorists had launched their attack in Benghazi.

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