Following the release of the House Benghazi Select Committee’s report, the wife of one victim of the 2012 terrorist attack has spoken out for the very first time. The widow of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods did not mince words about Hillary Clinton and the former secretary of state’s “dismissive” comments about the investigation.
CNN reports:
Dorothy Woods, the widow of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, told CNN’s Erin Burnett in her first interview since the attacks that she found Clinton’s comments to be in sync with other “dismissive” remarks from critics of the Benghazi investigation. The probe has been slammed by Democrats as partisan and more focused on harming Clinton than on finding out the truth about the September 11, 2012, attack. “Nobody in government can tell me how I feel, what I should feel about it,” Woods said. “She has no right — nor does anyone in government have the right — to tell me it’s time to move on. They’re not in my shoes.” At a campaign stop in Denver this week, Clinton said, “I’ll leave it to others to characterize the report, but I think it’s pretty clear it’s time to move on.”
Woods also said the Benghazi report did not change her opinion.
“It did not change my view of what happened, nor who to blame,” she said. “I place a blame on this sentiment, on this attitude in the upper level of government that says, ‘Hey, you know what, I’m just gonna lie about this, gloss over it, because I want to protect what I look like, and I’m thinking about the next job.'”
Read the full story here.
However, not all of the victims’ relatives feel the same way. Ambassador Chris Stevens’ sister, Dr. Anne Stevens, says she doesn’t blame Clinton.
She has taken full responsibility, being head of the State Department, for what occurred… I don’t see any usefulness in continuing to criticize her.
