INTRODUCTION.
Plaintiffs Patricia (hereafter “Pat Smith”) Smith and Charles Woods are the parents of
Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, respectively, each of whom were killed by Islamic terrorists
during the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. Hillary
Rodham Clinton (“Defendant Clinton”), who was the U.S. Secretary of State at the time, has
since been found to have used a private e-mail server to send and receive confidential and
classified government information, often concerning matters of national security, during her
tenure. In fact, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), James Comey, publicly
stated that Defendant 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.”
It is highly probable, given Defendant Clinton’s history of reckless handling of classified
information, that Defendant Clinton, as Secretary of State, sent and received information about
Ambassador Christopher Stevens and thus the U.S. Department of State activities and covert
operations that the deceased were a part of in Benghazi, Libya. This information was
compromised from the second that it left Defendant Clinton’s private e-mail server and easily
found its way to foreign powers including, but not limited to Russia, Iran, China, and North
Korea. As a direct result of Defendant Clinton’s reckless handling of this classified, sensitive
information, Islamic terrorists were able to obtain the whereabouts of Ambassador Christopher
Stevens and thus the U.S. State Department and covert and other government operations in
Benghazi, Libya and subsequently orchestrate, plan, and execute the now infamous September 11, 2012 attack.[sup]1[/sup]
From the illegal use of Defendant Clinton’s private email server, it was
reasonably foreseeable that Islamic terrorists would premeditatedly kill Plaintiffs’ sons.
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 that had been posted on the internet. 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. Defendant Clinton even promised
Plaintiffs that the person responsible for the video would be arrested. Plaintiff Woods recorded
the conversation with Defendant Clinton contemporaneously in his diary, which he has recorded
in for many years. Now, Defendant Clinton, in an attempt to save her reputation and intimidate
Plaintiffs and their surviving family members into silence as she attempts to be elected President
in the November, 2016 election, 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.
[sup]1[/sup]Aaron Klein, Hillary Emails Betrayed Whereabouts of Murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens, (March 1, 2016) available at: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/03/01/hillary-emails-betrayedwhereabouts-of-murdered-ambassador-chris-stevens/