Pat Smith, the outspoken still-grieving mother of slain State Department official Sean Smith, blasted the Obama administration over its non-existent efforts to investigate the Benghazi attack that took the life of her son and for failing to ensure the safety of staff overseas on Sept. 11, 2012.

Joining Jake Tapper on CNN Tuesday, Smith said she blames former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for not being on top of her department before the attack and for not getting Americans the help they needed after the assault began.

“How are you holding up?” Tapper asked the mother.

“Terrible,” she said. “I cry every night. I don’t sleep at night. I need answers.”

Among the questions that Smith wants — and deserves — answers to, she wants to know: “Why was there no security for him when they were supposed to have security, and the security that they did have was called back.”

“It’s just things do not add up and I’m just told lies,” she added.

Smith agreed that the deadly Benghazi attacks have become too politicized and wants people in Washington, D.C., to “just do their job.” It shouldn’t be a political issue, she explained.

She said she got one call from a clerk within the Obama administration shortly after the attack happened, but since then “all they have told me is I am not part of the immediately family so they don’t want to tell me anything.”

Tapper then played video of Clinton’s testimony before Congress, during which she yelled, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” when asked about the cause of the attack.

“Well, that’s what I want to know,” Smith shot back. “Why did it happen? And she is in charge. Why couldn’t she do something about it? I blame her.”

She continued ripping Clinton: “That’s her department. She’s supposed to be on top of it, and yet she claims that she knows nothing – it wasn’t told to her…Who’s running the place?”

Tapper noted that he hasn’t been able to get any answers on Benghazi either, but also expressed surprise at the fact that no one in the Obama administration has reached out to her other than the clerk.

“They don’t want to talk to me because they are afraid of what I might say,” Smith replied. “Because I might say something like, ‘who is at fault and why are they covering it up?’ And they are covering it up because I haven’t heard any answers.”

CNN clip: Mother of Murdered Benghazi Victim Tears Into Hillary Clinton During Emotional Interview: ‘I Blame Her’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Yes they were. Back in those days they did not have Bush to blame and had to seek the truth.

I sure miss the old days. Used to be that if someone killed a US Ambassador (or military member, or citizen) we would get to the bottom of it right away. Now we are just told it didn't happen, or it was our fault that it happened, or there was nothing that could be done to prevent it. What a disgrace.

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Extremely well said.

This Administration IMO is a disgrace to America and American citizens. I would like to see the responsible individuals to be tried in a court of law. I want to know how far Up the Administration's political food chain it likely goes. To the very top, I suspect. Almost 300,000,000 American citizens have more clout to get to the truth than the potentially five or six+ guilty parties in the Administration keeping the truth from us, We The People.

Skid- Unfortunately I don't think that at this point in time that 10% of our population knows what it means to be an American, or cares for that matter. It was great while it lasted though.

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Pretty much......

With today's technology, they (the Administration) reportedly WERE watching our people getting slaughtered in real time.

We need to keep the pressure on the likely scumbags yet to be brought to justice. I have four to six names in mind at the top in this case......

I'm sorry but that sounds unrealistically ambitious to me. Identifying and finding the people who perpetrated this attack in the Libya of today is a tall order methinks.

The notion that we could send in the cavalry to this or that hotspot and they'd be on the ground in 2 or 3 hours time, ready to defend honor and freedom also seems unrealistically ambitious.

MedMech: Who blamed Bush in this affair?

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I'm specifically referring to members of the Obama Administration likely responsible for letting the massacre happen - all in real time. Not some unknown murderers of our American citizens.

This attutude is why we are in the position we are today. We are perfectly capable of accomplishing the "unrealistically ambitious" goal you speak of. All it requires is men of ability, of which we have plenty, but now they are told to "stand down" whilst the REMF'S try to figure out how to cover their asses for their lack of leadership skills.

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....that's about the size of the incident from all I've read and heard about it........

Yes, and with fewer and fewer in the military while there are more and more civilian beauracrats, the REMF's are outnumbering the fighters more and more all the time.

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I think by definition the 90
% are therefore correctly identified as Americans.

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Actually in the old days someone might have been arrested and convicted and actually not have been the actual perp.

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I think that you are onto something there. If they had aggressively launched an investigation IMMEDIATELY, the trail would not have gotten cold. At the time, however, Obama said that it would take a long time for an investigation. Now that it's some 7 months later, Carney said that it was a long time ago, implying that an investigation would be difficult. So... which is it?

As far as getting troops on the ground in three hours, General Ham had that in the works before he was apparantly told to stand down. There were armed troops dressed, equipped and in the beginning of some wargames. All they had to do was put live ammo in their hands and they would have been there in about three hours. The word also is that among that group were a couple of specially and highly trained Medics. Medical attention and supplies would have certainly been useful.

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Funny how all kind of shyte was leaked concerning the SpecOps vs Bin Laden but in this instance, nobody knows nuttin'.