Toensing: Doesn't Hillary Clinton Know the Law?

"Does the former secretary of state not know the law?" asks Victoria Toensing in the WSJ. "By statute, she was required to make specific security decisions for defenseless consulates like Benghazi, and was not permitted to delegate them to anyone else." Yet,

In her interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer last week, Hillary Clinton said "I was not making security decisions" about Benghazi, claiming "it would be a mistake" for "a secretary of state" to "go through all 270 posts" and "decide what should be done." And at a January 2013 Senate hearing, Mrs. Clinton said that security requests "did not come to me. I did not approve them. I did not deny them."

Toensing outlines the requirements of the Secure Embassy Construction and Counterterrorism Act of 1999 (SECCA) signed into law by her husband, President Bill Clinton, on November 29, 1999, and concludes with this observation.:

Mrs. Clinton either personally waived these security provisions as required by law or she violated the law by delegating the waiver to someone else. If it was the latter, she shirked the responsibility she now disclaims: to be personally knowledgeable about and responsible for the security in a consulate as vulnerable as Benghazi.