Benghazi victims' parents sue Hillary Clinton

The parents of two of the Americans killed by Islamic terrorists in Benghazi have filed a lawsuit against Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, alleging her "extremely careless" handling of classified information when she was secretary of state contributed to their deaths.

The case was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by lawyer Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch USA on behalf of Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, and Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods.

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

The wrongful death claim also alleges defamation and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

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"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. It is no coincidence that covert State Department/CIA operations were being run out of Benghazi," Klayman commented.

"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. 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.

"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. This time, her 'luck' has run out."

Clinton, at the time of the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, Smith, Glen Doherty and Woods, said in an email to her daughter immediately after the attack that it was an act terrorism.

Recently, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, in endorsing Clinton's presidential campaign, said both were true at the same time.

In a televised interview, he said: "She said it was terrorism, right? To Chelsea … she said to them it was the video. Those two things can both be true at the same time."

The lawsuit explains that the FBI found Clinton, "at a minimum, was 'extremely careless' in handling confidential and classified government information and 'there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information.'"

The case alleges that 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.

"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.

"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."

Now, the case explains, Hillary Clinton "has gone on a defamatory smear campaign to paint plaintiffs as liars in the public eye in order to discredit plaintiffs, who have been vocal about defendant Clinton's pattern and practice of dishonesty regarding what caused the Benghazi attack, its aftermath, and the death of their sons."

Specifically, it charges Islamic terrorists "obtained the information sent and received by defendant Clinton about the location of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and thus the U.S. Department of State and the covert CIA and other government operations in Benghazi and used it to plan, orchestrate, and carry out the horrific and devastating attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012 … resulting in the death of four Americas."

The case alleges, "Without having access to the compromised information that was obtained due to defendant Clinton's 'extremely careless' handling of confidential information, the Islamic terrorist perpetrators of the Benghazi attack would not have been able to carry out the attack due to lack of information."

The case demands a jury trial and seeks general, special, actual, compensatory and punitive damages.

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