If giving bad intelligence about a terrorist attack for a few days is a scandal. Imagine if you did that for years to justify a war.

So, you don’t have to be a political expert to know that there was an increase in political donations given to 501(c)4s. So, again, it’s almost an invitation as the law is written for abuse in terms of political activities for corporations that are primarily are supposed to be doing a social service work. Is that not correct? … I mean, you should have wanted to look at this earlier before this — what my [Republican] friends want to call a scandal. I mean, this is wrong to abuse the tax system. This screams out for tax reform. Does it not?

We know that the press corps spent most of the last week chasing a story based on an email that didn’t exist. It was fabricated by a Republican aide and then reported as fact. Sad commentary that Republicans are so dead set on embarrassing the President, the foreign service, the CIA and our military that they would actually lie to a news organization about the contents of an email and let that news organization report their lies as fact. The attack in Benghazi is an issue of life and death. We should be focused tracking down the terrorists that committed this act and bringing them to justice not on smear politics and false scandals.

Frankly, had I been in the job at the time, I think my decisions would have been just as theirs were… send some small number of special forces or other troops in without knowing what the environment is, without knowing what the threat is, without having any intelligence in terms of what is actually going on on the ground, would have been very dangerous… It’s sort of a cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces.