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Letter: Hillary Clinton needs to step down from presidential run

With Hillary Clinton under investigation for having over 20 top-secret emails on her private server and having lied about that to various organizations, and with her still being under investigation for the Benghazi debacle, where four people died because of her incompetence, she needs to be arrested for lying under oath.

But what America deserves to know is where was Clinton on the night of Sept. 11, 2012, when the attack started at Benghazi? Where was Obama on that same night? Who gave the “stand down” order? And lastly, why weren’t troops sent in to help in what turned out to be a 13-hour firefight?

Clinton is not the kind of president you want answering the phone at 2 a.m. Her continued lying and incompetence knows no equal unless you consider Obama, then it’s hard to tell which one is worse. Now the Clinton Foundation is coming under fire, which just further complicates everything and indicates to me that she needs to step down from her presidential run and defend her actions, or the lack thereof, in court. She should have been arrested over a year ago, but tomorrow will be fine.

Ben Cook, Kennewick

This story was originally published July 13, 2016 at 3:20 AM with the headline "Letter: Hillary Clinton needs to step down from presidential run."

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