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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Andrew Harnik/AP/Press Association Images

Parents of two men killed in Benghazi attack sue Hillary Clinton

The lawsuit blames their deaths on Clinton’s “reckless” handling of classified information on her private email server.

RELATIVES OF TWO men killed in the 2012 attack on a US consulate in Libya have filed a lawsuit blaming the deaths on Hillary Clinton’s “reckless” handling of classified information on her private email server.

While secretary of state, Clinton conducted official government business on a private server at her home, which critics say exposed official US correspondence to possible hacking attacks from foreign governments and terror operatives.

The FBI concluded last month that the Democratic presidential nominee had been “extremely careless” with classified information on her server, but nevertheless declined to recommend criminal charges against her over the scandal.

US authorities ended their probe into the matter, but Clinton’s political opponents have been trying to keep the controversy over her email server alive, including linking it to the attack in Benghazi nearly four years ago.

Covert operations 

Parents of two American security agents at the consulate, in their wrongful death lawsuit against Clinton, allege that terrorists were able to determine the men’s whereabouts because of her use of a private server.

The assault on the US consulate killed four Americans in all, including Washington’s ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.

The text of the lawsuit filed in the US District Court in Washington DC yesterday read:

It is highly probable, given defendant Clinton’s history of reckless handling of classified information, that defendant Clinton, as secretary of state, sent and received information about ambassador Christopher Stevens and thus the US Department of State activities and covert operations that the deceased were a part of in Benghazi, Libya.

“As a direct result of defendant Clinton’s reckless handling of this classified, sensitive information, Islamic terrorists were able to obtain the whereabouts of ambassador Christopher Stevens and thus the US State Department and covert and other government operations in Benghazi, Libya and subsequently orchestrate, plan, and execute the now infamous September 11, 2012 attack.”

© AFP 2016

Read: Trump suggests that Hillary’s leaked emails may be linked to killing of Iranian scientist

Read: The FBI will NOT push for criminal charges against Hillary Clinton

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    Mute thomas molloy
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    Dec 14th 2023, 11:34 AM

    Interest rates have reached a level that makes borrowing to grow employment giving investment impossible.

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Dec 14th 2023, 4:13 PM

    @thomas molloy: Interest rates have been much higher in the past. At one point in the 90s, rates were in the mid-teens.

    The low interest rates we have experienced over the past decade or so are an anomaly, in historical terms.

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    Mute Pato
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    Dec 14th 2023, 12:32 PM

    They will claim that they have achieved their objective in that inflation has reduced. They cannot see that their hiking of rates contributed to the inflation rate rise.

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    Mute Niall English
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    Dec 14th 2023, 12:37 PM

    @Pato: ehhhhhhhh no.

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    Mute John Terry
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    Dec 14th 2023, 1:22 PM

    @Pato: Explain.because everyone else will disagree with you.

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    Mute Donal McCarthy
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    Dec 14th 2023, 3:07 PM

    @Pato: Please do explain

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Dec 14th 2023, 4:29 PM

    @Donal McCarthy: I think Pato is largely correct.

    Inflation can be caused by two things:
    1) A shortage of some goods, or service
    2) A surfeit of money in an economy

    As I understand it, the inflation we experienced – and are still experiencing – was due to (a contrived) shortage. A shortage in energy, driving up fuel and electricity prices, which then fed into everything else. This was preceded by another shortage caused by the Corona virus pandemic shutting down lots of manufacturing, particularly in China – the so-called supply chain shortages.

    The way to address inflation caused by too much money in the economy is to remove some of that money. Increasing interest rates is one way to do that.

    However, increasing interest rates will not bring down the cost of electricity.
    Or petrol.

    When the (major) cause of our inflation is the profiteering of energy companies, increasing interest rates just puts more cost onto all of us, including businesses. Which can only recoup those additional costs by increasing their prices.
    Which adds to inflation.

    The best way to address such profiteering by the oil (and gas, and associated energy) companies would have been a windfall tax.

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    Dec 14th 2023, 7:02 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: pato stated that the interest rate rises caused the inflation which was incorrect. yes energy prices and supply chain issues were minor contributory factors, but the primary factor was 10 years of free money, which was then acclerated into turbo over drive during covid when physical money supply in the US and EU increased by near 50%. There were 50% more dollars/euros in peoples back accounts after covid then before covid. I do not believe we will see near zero interest rates for some time. I believe it will remain between 2-3% for the very reason that this new money had to be extracted out of the economy and it needs to stay there otherwise it will result in another cycle of inflation.

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    Dec 14th 2023, 7:18 PM

    @Niall English: No, Pato did not say that.

    Pato said that raising interest rates “contributed to the inflation rate rise.”

    Which is correct, in my view.

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    Dec 14th 2023, 11:06 AM

    Bitcoin fixes Central Bank Ponzi Schemes

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    Mute Kevin Collins
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    Dec 14th 2023, 11:33 AM

    @Snacktoshi Nachomoto: how?

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    Dec 14th 2023, 12:05 PM

    @Snacktoshi Nachomoto: anyone who buys crypto currency is a fool and typically didn’t study business subjects in school. The government and central banks decide what Currency we use whether that may involve digital euro. Profiting from digital euro is foolish.

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    Dec 14th 2023, 1:11 PM

    @Snacktoshi Nachomoto: I’m afraid you are not as well informed as you may think. Bitcoin is the real ponzi scheme.

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    Dec 14th 2023, 1:14 PM

    @Snacktoshi Nachomoto: bitcoin is the currency of crooks

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    Dec 14th 2023, 1:47 PM

    @Liam Clifden: but maybe the worst performing in 2022, so what’s your point??

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    Dec 14th 2023, 2:13 PM

    @Liam Clifden: Actually that’s a lie, xrp has preformed better than bitcoin and that’s with a court case hanging over it head, xrp is up over 50 percent from its bottom this year, bitcoin isn’t up over 50 percent from its bottom this year,

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    Mute Niall English
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    Dec 14th 2023, 3:36 PM

    @Liam Clifden: bitcoin has zero intrinsic value. people like yourself are pursuant to the greater f00l theory. in order to profit, you need to find a bigger f00l to buy it at a higher price.

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    Dec 14th 2023, 3:51 PM

    Control the money control the people

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    Dec 14th 2023, 1:40 PM

    Great news. And well done central bankers. A solid victory over the ever populist economists.

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    Dec 14th 2023, 6:39 PM

    @Itwaslikethatwhenigothere:

    I don’t think you’re correct in relation to a windfall tax. Windfall taxes do nothing to protect against profiteering, they simply allow the state to increase their tax take.

    Consider this. Company A usually makes profits of €100m and pays 12.5% tax on this. So they net 87.5m

    Now they increase their prices and their income doubles to €200m – the government introduce a windfall tax of 20% on profits in excess of 100m so they now net 87.5m on the first 100m and 80m on the second 100m – net profits have increased to 167.5m – why would that entice them to reduce prices?

    Even if the windfall tax was 50% – there is still no incentive to reduce as 50% of something is better than 100% of nothing. The only winner here is the exchequer.

    If you want to limit profiteering then a price cap is the only way it could work. Windfall taxes are ineffectual.

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    Dec 14th 2023, 8:07 PM

    @Liam Clifden: Bernie Madoffs Ponzi scheme was running for 17 years…

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    Dec 14th 2023, 7:06 PM

    Happy Christmas from the European Central Bank

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