Pro-Hillary Clinton groups arm for Benghazi battle

Three Democratic Party groups with hopes of seeing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton make a run for the White House in 2016 — or at least emerge from upcoming Capitol Hill hearings on Benghazi unscathed — are rallying around their leader and gearing up for a public relations battle.

Officials with Correct the Record, a pro-Hillary group, said they’re working with the super PAC American Bridge to launch www.benghazicommittee.com, a research site to provide quick responses to any charges that emerge against Mrs. Clinton, Politico reported.

Media Matters — the watchdog nonprofit founded by David Brock — has jumped aboard the bandwagon, too, and will provide researchers and analysis to counter any negative media messages that emerge about Mrs. Clinton.

One upcoming Media Matters campaign: The group’s poised to release a new chapter of Mr. Brock’s e-book, “The Benghazi Hoax,” aimed at providing readers with updated information. The nonprofit is also starting a new website to be loaded with information about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

Mrs. Clinton, the heir apparent for the Democratic ticket to the White House in 2016, is still fighting ghosts of Benghazi — particularly the statement she made when questioned by lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the changing narrative of the Obama administration. Then, she said, “What difference at this point does it make?”

Her seeming dodge was picked up by Republicans and used to paint her as unconcerned with the truth — something she bluntly denied in her book, “Hard Choices,” Politico reported.

But the issue seems destined to shadow Mrs. Clinton, should she run for the presidency.

“One of the reasons that I created [Correct the Record] last fall was that the Republicans seemed to have the field to themselves in the round of hearings around 2013,” Mr. Brock said, Politico reported. “Ability to respond to false accusations was limited. … We’re not going to let that happen again.”