To the editor:

In his Aug. 21 letter, Thomas Henderson writes, “Two people should be able to on any given topic agree on the basis of fact because facts are facts.” He then claimed it is a fact that Hillary Clinton was “found clear of responsibility in the Benghazi attacks.” That is not a fact.

According to USA Today on Jan. 15, 2014, “Congressional Democrats for the first time joined the GOP to condemn the State Department for refusing security measures they say could have prevented the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi.” Some claim the lack of security should be blamed on Republicans, who allegedly cut security funding. PolitiFact on May 13, 2014, said this claim was “Mostly False.”

According to a June 28 Chicago Tribune editorial on the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi report, “The crux of it is that during and well after the chaos of the attacks on the State Department’s outpost and nearby CIA annex in Benghazi, Clinton and the Obama administration promoted a false narrative for public consumption: that the violence came from a spontaneous outburst of mob anger.”

Clinton refused to increase security in Libya, and then lied to the American people about what inspired the Benghazi attack. She was never cleared of responsibility. In fact, parents of two of the men killed at Benghazi are suing Clinton, saying her “‘extreme carelessness’ in handling confidential and classified information” contributed to the conditions that led to their sons’ deaths.