2 Benghazi victims' parents want Hillary on trial

On behalf of parents Patricia Smith (mother of Sean Smith) and Charles Woods (father of Tyrone Woods), Freedom Watch’s Larry Klayman brought the lawsuit before a lower court last year alleging that Clinton lied about the attack before slandering the victims’ families -- by suggesting that they were spreading lies about the deaths.

“The case charging Clinton with ‘defamation, false light, and intentional infliction of emotional distress’ was dismissed at the lower courts, which ruled Clinton was acting within the scope of her employment – secretary of state – at the time,” WND reported. “That, the opinion found, included her use of a private, unauthorized and unsecured email system through which information was sent that ‘directly led to the deaths of appellants’ sons.’ Clinton earlier narrowly escaped a default judgment that was entered in a case in the lower court over her liability for the deaths of Americans in Benghazi when an Obama-appointed judge adopted claims that she wasn’t properly served.”

Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s earlier decision let Clinton off the hook … temporarily, at least.

“Whether or not the defendant was served with process in accordance with the applicable state law, defendant is now on notice of this lawsuit, and counsel entered an appearance on her behalf of Sept. 15, 2016,” Jackson wrote at the time.

Insult to injury …

Both parents in the suit accuse Clinton of unprofessionally handling confidential information and of lying to cover her own negligence.

“The parents cite the FBI’s determination that Clinton’s handling of classified information through the use of a nonsecure, private email server was ‘extremely careless,’” WND’s Bob Unruh pointed out. “The plaintiffs alleged that Clinton lied about the cause of the terror attack – including in statements to them – telling them in a private meeting that the attack was caused by a little-known video.”

Apparently trying to cover up the fact that Obama and the State Department had information that the September 11 attack would take place, administration officials discovered an anti-Muslim video on the Internet and tried to sell the media and the American people on their claim that the Benghazi attack was instigated by the “provoking” video.

“Smith and Woods were killed in the Sept. 11, 2012, jihadist attack on the American compound in Benghazi,” Unruh informed. “While Clinton and other Obama administration officials were publicly blaming the deaths on a response to the YouTube video, internal communications show they knew immediately that it was a terrorist attack.”

Along with defamation, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress allegations were made against Clinton in the parents’ wrongful death claim.

"Having used a secret private email server that we now know was used to communicate with Ambassador Christopher Stevens with confidential and classified government information – and which we also now know was likely hacked by hostile adversaries such as Iran, Russia, China and North Korea aligning with terrorist groups – it is clear that Hillary Clinton allegedly negligently and recklessly gave up the classified location of the plaintiffs' sons, resulting in a deadly terrorist attack that took their lives,” Klayman stated on behalf of the aggrieved parents in the original lawsuit filed last year, according to Freedom Watch. “It is no coincidence that covert State Department/CIA operations were being run out of Benghazi.”

The misleading information Clinton offered Americans was intended to hide the fact that she failed to protect Americans from a jihadist attack that should have been detected well in advance and could have been easily thwarted.

"To add insult to deadly injury, Hillary Clinton told the plaintiffs that their sons were killed as the result of a video mocking the Islamic prophet Mohammed when she knew that they were murdered by Muslim terrorists,” Klayman continued. “When the families exposed her lies, she called them liars to protect her reputation and to further her own presidential ambitions. She thus defamed the parents of fallen heroes Tyrone Woods and Sean Smith, as well committed other wrongful acts, as alleged in the complaint.”

Enough is enough!

It was then stressed that Clinton’s days of avoiding blame for her own failures were quickly coming to an end.

"Hillary Clinton has been thus far fortunate – throughout her career – to escape the long arm of the law, believing and acting as if she is above the law,” the attorney from the government watchdog legal group asserted. “This time, her 'luck' has run out."

The favoritism shown earlier by the lower court was stressed – in hopes of finally setting the record straight.

“The appellate court filing protests that the lower court made assumptions in Hillary Clinton’s favor, and the real issue that needs a full court process is that ‘Islamic terrorists were able to locate Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, and Tyrone Woods and orchestrate and execute the Benghazi attack’ because of Clinton’s use of unsecured email, and that she then made false statements to try to cover up the problems that allowed an attack to occur,” Unruh noted.

A request to rectify the errant ruling issued by the lower court was formally made in the new filing.

“Plaintiffs-appellants respectfully request this honorable court to vacate and reverse the district court’s holding and remand the case for further proceedings,” the latest filing petitioned, according to WND.

Klayman demanded that the true facts behind the case must be thoroughly examined so that Clinton will be held accountable for her actions and so that the victims’ family will finally see the justice they and their deceased children deserve.

“The district court mistakenly took these viable causes of action away from a jury and the district court decision must be vacated,” Klayman impressed, as noted by WND. “[Clinton’s] defamatory statements – that plaintiffs-appellants are not telling the truth, strongly implying that they lied in order to protect and enhance her public image and intimidate and emotionally harm and silence them not to speak up about the Benghazi attack – could only diminish plaintiffs-appellants’ reputations and esteem. Here, [Clinton] committed defamation by implication when, as one example, she responded ‘no’ when asked if she told the parents of the fallen heroes their death was caused by a film. … While she did not expressly use the word ‘liar,’ defendant-appellee’s statement would lead the viewer to draw one conclusions – that she was accusing plaintiffs-appellants of lying.”

It was pointed out in the brief that Clinton malevolently tried to make matters worse for the grieving parents to save her own skin.

“Her statements unequivocally portray plaintiffs as liars,” the brief submitted to the court by Freedom Watch contends, according to WND.

No mistake about it …

The culpability of Clinton – in accordance with FBI records – was reemphasized before the court in the original lawsuit.

“[The FBI found Clinton] at a minimum, [that Clinton] was ‘extremely careless’ in handling confidential and classified government information and [that] ‘there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information,'” the legal document reads. “[Clinton’s unsecure personal email setup allowed] foreign powers including, but not limited to Russia, Iran, China and North Korea [to obtain information about the Americans].”

The political ambitions of Clinton and Obama were then exposed before the court for all to see.

“Immediately after the attack, defendant Clinton, in an effort to save the re-election chances of President Barack Obama, and in turn, her own chances at the 2016 presidency, lied to plaintiffs and the public at large that the Benghazi attacks were caused by Islamic reaction over an anti-Muslim YouTube video … these lies were perpetrated despite the fact that she knew immediately that this video was actually not the cause of the attack – information that she shared with the prime minister of Egypt and her own daughter, Chelsea Clinton, but hid from plaintiffs and the public at large,” the lawsuit continued, according to WND. “Clinton even promised plaintiffs that the person responsible for the video would be arrested. … Woods recorded the conversation with defendant Clinton contemporaneously in his diary.”

Righting the blame game … and denying the truth

Not wanting to see Clinton continue up the political ladder wile stepping on her and her son’s reputation, Smith revisited the matter with a huge conservative audience last summer.

"I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son," Smith declared in her speech delivered at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, months before the presidential election, according to NBCNews.com.

But Clinton’s campaign spokesman, Nick Merrill, continued to try and deflect any blame away from the Democrats’ only hope at the time.

“While no one can imagine the pain of the families of the brave Americans we lost at Benghazi, there have been nine different investigations into this attack and none found any evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing on the part of Hillary Clinton," Merrill insisted in response to the allegations put forth in the lawsuit, as reported by NBCNews.com.