Daily Mail:
‘Some of the people looked me right in the eye and lied to me’: Mother of U.S. diplomat killed in Libya attack renews her attacks on President after ‘not optimal’ remark
- Pat Smith said she has been lied to by government officials
- President told Jon Stewart, ‘If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal’
- Remarks sparked massive backlash from conservatives on social media
- Mother of slain diplomat Sean Smith says Obama was ‘disrespectful’
By Daniel Bates, Toby Harnden In Washington and Andy Milne
PUBLISHED: 12:50 GMT, 20 October 2012 | UPDATED: 16:50 GMT, 20 October 2012
The mother of an American diplomat killed during a terrorist raid on the U.S. consulate in Libya has renewed her attacks on Barack Obama after the President’s appearance on The Daily Show.
Pat Smith, whose son Sean died in the raid in Benghazi, spoke of her anger to the New York Postafter the President told Jon Stewart that her son’s death was not ‘optimal’ on Thursday night.
She hit out at Mr Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s handling of the crisis and security at the consulate, telling the paper: ‘They’re on the top. They’re the big cheeses. If they didn’t make the decision, they should have been the ones that made the decision.’
She also talked of her distress at the confusion surrounding her son’s death.
‘Everyone’s giving me different answers. I don’t have good answers, and they are not giving me good answers,’ she said. ‘Some of the people [from the government] looked me right in the eye and lied to me.’
‘Somebody is lying, or else these crooks are running our country, and I don’t choose to believe that.’
It comes a day after she hit out at Barack Obama for describing the attack as ‘not optimal’, saying: ‘My son is not very optimal – he is also very dead.”
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Not optimal: President Barack Obama, pictured left, discussed the killing of four men in Benghazi while speaking to Jon Stewart, right, on The Daily Show
Obama cares not for people, only for power.
You got that right Bob, his not optimal remark is saying that the deaths are regrettable but allowable in order to achieve his goals.
@Softly Bob,Your sentence should have finished “Only for power of Islam”.