Slain Ambassador Chris Stevens’ Sister Speaks Out: ‘I Do Not Blame’ Clinton

FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly Se... FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) MORE LESS
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The day the House Benghazi Committee released its report on the two-year-long investigation into the 2012 terror attacks that left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others Americans dead, Stevens’ sister said she doesn’t blame Hillary Clinton.

Dr. Anne Stevens said in an interview with The New Yorker, published online Tuesday, that then-Secretary of State Clinton was “balancing security efforts at embassies and missions around the world.”

“I do not blame Hillary Clinton or Leon Panetta,” Stevens said when asked who she faults for her brother’s death in Benghazi.

She also said in hindsight, it’s clear the U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya was not “sufficiently protected” by the State Department and Defense Department.

“The Benghazi Mission was understaffed. We know that now,” Stevens said. “But, again, Chris knew that. It wasn’t a secret to him. He decided to take the risk to go there. It is not something they did to him. It is something he took on himself.”

Stevens, the chief of pediatric rheumatology at Seattle Children’s Hospital, also told the magazine Clinton has taken “full responsibility” for the tragedy and she doesn’t “see any usefulness in continuing to criticize [Clinton]. It is very unjust.”

Read the full interview over at The New Yorker.

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  1. Waiting for the first Republican to say “Tch! What does she know about it?”

  2. Well, she’s clearly over come by grief and confused, right? /s

  3. Good for her. One of the dividing lines that’s been drawn between rabid GOPers and the rest of us is whether you’re going to demonstrate simple human decency or not. Trump is a cruel and stupid man with literally no ability to understand why you shouldn’t do wrong and bad things, even if those things might help you attain some goal. That’s really a big part of what this election is about: Do we treat each other decently, or do we live in a state of nature? Is everything permitted, or are there things we should agree we won’t do? Trump puts the question more starkly than anyone since you-know-who.

  4. It’s “Stevens’ Sister”. Not “Steven’s Sister.”

  5. It’s Nit-Pick not nitpick.
    Thank you Mr Grammar Person

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