Did WaPo’s Fact Checker Inadvertently Expose Clinton Disseminating Classified Info on Benghazi?

Published October 30, 2015 4:34pm ET



This morning, Washington Post fact checker Glen Kessler decided to fact check Marco Rubio’s statement at the latest GOP debate that Hillary Clinton lied about al Qaeda’s involvement in the September 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi. In public, Clinton initially attributed the attack to spontaneous protests arising from a blasphemous YouTube video. We now know that on the evening of the attack Clinton emailed her daughter Chelsea saying the attack was by an “al-Queda like group.” Nonetheless, Kessler gives Rubio two Pinocchios out of a possible four, concluding:

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