Slain official's mom rips President Obama
Politico ^ | 11 Oct 2012 | BOBBY CERVANTES
Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:45:06 PM
The mother of one of the State Department officials killed in the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi is blasting President Barack Obama and top administration officials for not telling her more information about her son’s death.
“Don’t give me any baloney that comes through with this political stuff,” Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, said on CNN on Wednesday. “I still don’t know. In fact, today I just heard something more, that he died of smoke inhalation.” Sean Smith was an information management officer in the U.S. Foreign Service. His mother said the administration’s promises for a definitive account of her son’s final hours have not been kept.
“The things they are telling me are outright lies,” she said. “Leon Panetta actually took my face in his hands and he said, ‘Trust me, I will tell you what happened.’ And so far he’s told me nothing.”
She laid into the officials for not acknowledging she “has a right to know something.”
“I told Obama personally, ‘Look, I had him for his first 17 years, and then he went into the service then you got him,’” she said. “I said, ‘You screwed up. You didn’t do a good job. I lost my son.’”
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