“Former president Bill Clinton said in an interview airing Sunday that Republicans have a double standard when it comes to the deaths of U.S. diplomats, saying they are picking on the Obama administration when it comes to the Benghazi attacks but didn’t grill the Bush administration over similar instances.

“When 10 different instances occurred when President Bush was in office where American diplomatic personnel were killed, how many outraged Republican members of Congress were there?” Clinton asked in the interview airing on “Meet the Press.” He noted: “Zero.”

The attack on Benghazi resulted in the deaths of four Americans. While attacks on American diplomatic personnel did happen several times under Bush, the attack on Benghazi included the death of an ambassador, Chris Stevens — something that hadn’t happened since 1979.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Aaron Blake / The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/06/29/bill-clinton-says-gop-is-guilty-of-double-standard-on-benghazi/