Mark Geist just told the Republican National Convention that “Hillary Clinton failed to protect her people on the ground. Had she [Hillary Clinton] done her job that night, we would not have had to compromise the annex.” PolitiFact has debunked the claim—and so has Geist. Earlier this year in an interview with ABC News, Geist made clear that the real blame for the terrorist attack laid not with Clinton but with the terrorists who carried out the attack.
LIE: “Hillary Clinton failed to protect her people on the ground. Had she done her job that night, we would not have had to compromise the annex.”
THE TRUTH: Mark Geist on Hillary Clinton’s accountability for Benghazi: “Do I hold her accountable? No. You know who I hold accountable is al-Sharia.” “But while many of Clinton’s enemies use Benghazi to hold her accountable, Geist has his own perspective. ‘Do I hold her accountable? No. You know who I hold accountable is al-Sharia,’ he said. ‘That’s who attacked them. That’s who killed the ambassador.’” [ABC News, 1/16/16]
PolitiFact: “There’s no evidence that these [security requests] reached Clinton directly, let alone that she personally denied the requests.” “‘Ambassador (Chris) Stevens and his staff in Libya made hundreds and hundreds of requests for security. …Hillary Clinton’s State Department refused them all.’ While it’s true that the State Department was repeatedly asked to provide additional security, there’s no evidence that these reached Clinton directly, let alone that she personally denied the requests.” [PolitiFact, 6/22/16]