FOXNews.com: Father of ex-SEAL killed in Libya says Clinton vowed to arrest and prosecute -- the filmmaker

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Father of ex-SEAL killed in Libya says Clinton vowed to arrest and prosecute -- the filmmaker Oct 26th 2012, 16:08 Three days after the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apparently pledged to the father of one of those killed she would seek justice -- against the maker of an anti-Islam film.  Charles Woods, father of former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods who was killed in the attack, expressed disbelief in media interviews this week, as he began to speak out about comments made to him by administration officials at the memorial service held Sept. 14.  Despite documents that indicated early on that militants were behind the attack on the U.S. Consulate, Woods described Clinton as being focused on the anti-Islam film that spurred protests elsewhere and was initially blamed for sparking the attack in Benghazi.  "Her countenance was not good and she made this statement to me ... she said we will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted," he said on host Glenn Beck's show, adding that she also apologized.  Woods said he "could tell that she was not telling me the truth."  A representative with the State Department did not respond to a request for comment.  The account shows an apparent disconnect between evidence that extremists were involved in the attack -- including a newly released State Department email on the day of the attack saying the militant Ansar al-Sharia had claimed responsibility -- and the desire by some to focus strictly on the film as the cause.  Woods' account also comes amid concerns on Capitol Hill that the administration has not done enough to go after those who actually committed the act of terror -- and may not have done enough to respond to requests for help on the night of the attack. Sources have separately told Fox News that a request for military back-up was denied by U.S. officials during that attack.  Woods also spoke this week with radio host Lars Larson, and offered a similar account of the Sept. 14 memorial. He said Clinton "mentioned that the thing about, we're going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video. That was the first time I had even heard about anything like that."  Clinton and the rest of the administration made repeated reference to the video in their public comments in the days after the attack. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice said on Sept 16 the attack was a "spontaneous" reaction to demonstrations over the video. The administration even funded an ad in Pakistan condemning the video.  Intelligence officials have since given a mixture picture, saying the strike was a coordinated terror attack -- but also leaving open the door to the possibility that militants reacted opportunistically to the protests in Egypt at the time over the film.  Woods also made some tough statements about President Obama's reaction when he met him during the memorial service.  "He kind of just mumbled, you know, 'I'm sorry.' His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, 'I'm really sorry, you know, that you're son died,' but it was totally insincere."  Woods said shaking Obama's hand was "like shaking hands with a dead fish."

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