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The Benghazi Hearings.What Will Be The "Hillary Excuses" And Answers This Time?

Posted on 10/21/2015 4:00:39 PM PDT by Cruz_West_Paul2016

Is it fair to say that:"I Don't Recall" is Hillary's most infamous catch phrase? And then about 20 years later it was something like, "What Difference Does It Make"?. So what can we expect from Hillary this week?, The Infamous and Sophomoric,"Well At The Time I Wasn't Aware" or, "I Didn't Know It Was Top Secret". Who knows, we may hear up to 20 or so new excuses coming from Hillary this week. What will they be? "Huma Ate My Deleted Emails"?, "Much Of This Started Under The Bush Administration"?


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KEYWORDS: benghazi; hillary; hillaryclinton; libya
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To: Cruz_West_Paul2016

Nothing will come of this, unfortunately.


21 posted on 10/21/2015 4:26:20 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Cruz_West_Paul2016

I can’t find the time for the hearing tomorrow.. Does anyone know? Thanks.


22 posted on 10/21/2015 4:31:46 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: gov_bean_ counter

“The most we can hope for is a single question that she wasn’t expecting and that really gets under her skin.”

How about: Miz Clinton, at what point did you decide that four men’s lives didn’t mean a damn thing to you?


23 posted on 10/21/2015 4:33:27 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Old Grumpy

Be worth a shot...


24 posted on 10/21/2015 4:34:31 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Louisiana Weasel - GOPe Plan C or make that D)
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To: Cruz_West_Paul2016

PMS?


25 posted on 10/21/2015 4:34:48 PM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: blueunicorn6

so Hillary, so if your the smartest woman in the world, maybe you can tell all of us what video caused the tragedy of 9/11/01?


26 posted on 10/21/2015 4:34:55 PM PDT by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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To: Cruz_West_Paul2016

UNLESS YOU CAN GET C-SPAN3 .. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE OR HEAR THE HEARINGS.

I’VE ALREADY SENT A MSG TO C-SPAN .. BECAUSE “3” REQUIRES A HIGHER LEVEL OF CABLE SERVICE .. ELIMINATING A VERY LARGE AUDIENCE.

WHICH IS PROBABLY WHAT THEY WANTED.


27 posted on 10/21/2015 4:35:17 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: Cruz_West_Paul2016

Maybe she will say, “when I get elected president, your a$$ is grass, and I’m a lawn mower.”


28 posted on 10/21/2015 4:37:35 PM PDT by Mark17 (Heaven, where the only thing there that's been made by man are the scars in the hands of Jesus)
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To: blueunicorn6

There was an article yesterday about Benghazi.

One of the things I noticed is that it took two flights to get all of the Americans out of Benghazi.

The first flight out was the chartered flight from Tripoli.

The second flight was a Libyan military transport.

Two transports flew in and out of Benghazi with no mention of anti-aircraft fire.

There were Americans still in Benghazi waiting for the second aircraft. What was going on while they were waiting? Supposedly, the four bodies of the dead Americans were in Benghazi and would be transported on the second plane.

Why didn’t the enemy finish off the Americans waiting for the second plane?

Obama surrendered at Benghazi, that’s why.


29 posted on 10/21/2015 4:40:00 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Prayers are up for this very thing to happen.


30 posted on 10/21/2015 4:44:15 PM PDT by annieokie
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To: annieokie

Yes they are...


31 posted on 10/21/2015 4:46:54 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Louisiana Weasel - GOPe Plan C or make that D)
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To: blueunicorn6

OMG! people belong in jail!!
Starting at the White Hut..


32 posted on 10/21/2015 4:47:09 PM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

glad to hear it. It was all over my emails today and all in agreement.


33 posted on 10/21/2015 5:02:45 PM PDT by annieokie
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To: Cruz_West_Paul2016

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/

I read this on Face Book, don’t think I believe any of it, but read and then comment...I don’t think Gowdy would do any of this, and I don’t think he would run his committee that way.....

Congressional Democrats are up in arms over Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s recent admission that the House Benghazi Committee has been nothing but a political witch-hunt which used millions in taxpayer dollars to smear a presidential candidate. They’ve called for an investigation into the committee and have released a fact sheet specifically detailing the utter failure of Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and the House Benghazi committee to investigate the deaths of four Americans. It’s a damning indictment of the partisan misuse of Congressional time and money that is going to be remembered as one of the most disgraceful acts in American political history.

How the Benghazi Committee Targeted Hillary Clinton

1. Gowdy Cancelled All Planned Hearings Other Than Hillary Clinton’s After NYT Email Story

Before the New York Times broke its story on March 2 about Hillary’s Clinton’s emails, Gowdy had sent to Committee Members an investigative plan that set out monthly hearings with all the different agencies involved in preparing for and responding to the attacks in Benghazi, including the State Department, the Defense Department, and the Intelligence Community.

After the New York Times’ email story broke on March 2, however, Gowdy completely abandoned this plan and began focusing almost exclusively on Hillary Clinton.

Since then, Gowdy has not held any of the hearings on his schedule, and his upcoming hearing with Hillary Clinton is the only hearing now scheduled.

For example, Gowdy abandoned the hearing he had planned for April with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary Leon Panetta.

The Committee has never held even one public hearing with anyone from the Department of Defense. The Committee has held only one hearing with an intelligence official, but it was with the CIA’s head of Legislative Affairs regarding the status of document production.

2. Gowdy Dropped Key Interviews with Top Defense and Intelligence Leaders

Gowdy also abandoned plans he had made in February to start conducting interviews of the following top defense and intelligence leaders in April: former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, former CIA Director David Petraeus, General Martin Dempsey, and former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matt Olsen.

He never invited any of these defense or intelligence leaders for interviews.

Gowdy then announced that he planned to start conducting the following interviews in June: former Defense Secretary Panetta, General Martin Dempsey, and General Carter Ham.

Those interviews were also abandoned.

3. Gowdy Scheduled New Interviews and Depositions of Hillary Clinton’s Associates

By the end of this month, Republicans will have interviewed or deposed 8 current or former Clinton campaign staffers, compared to only a total of four Defense Department officials.

Gowdy sent armed Marshals to serve a deposition subpoena on longtime Clinton associate Sidney Blumenthal despite the fact that he was completely cooperative and would have voluntarily appeared without a subpoena, but was never asked.

Gowdy later admitted that he “never expected Witness Blumenthal to be able to answer questions about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya.”

The Select Committee asked Blumenthal more than 160 questions about his relationship and communications with Clinton, but fewer than 20 questions about the Benghazi attacks; more than 50 questions about the Clinton Foundation, but only 4 about security in Benghazi; and more than 45 questions about David Brock, Media Matters and affiliated entities, but no questions at all about Ambassador Stevens or other personnel in Benghazi.

4. Gowdy Stepped Up Aggressive Press Campaign Against Hillary Clinton

Since March, Gowdy’s press releases have focused almost entirely on Secretary Clinton.
Over the past nine months, he has issued 22 press releases related to Secretary Clinton (including one on Sidney Blumenthal’s emails with Clinton), but only 5 press releases on any other topic during that period.

Of the 5 non-Clinton press releases, three (1, 2, 3) are about the State Department’s compliance with document production, one marks the anniversary of 9/11, and one is Gowdy’s interim progress report.

The only documents Gowdy has publicly released over the past 17 months were Clinton’s emails with Sidney Blumenthal, and Gowdy did this unilaterally with no debate or vote by the Select Committee.

At the same time, he has blocked the public release of Blumenthal’s deposition transcript, which would reveal all the questions Republicans asked about Hillary Clinton and other issues that have nothing to do with Benghazi.

Almost immediately after the interview with Cheryl Mills, Republicans began leaking inaccurate information to damage Clinton with unsubstantiated or previously debunked allegations, while refusing to release the complete transcript.

Gowdy refused to investigate or condemn a leak that made more unsubstantiated allegations against Clinton despite the fact that Politico was forced to correct a front-page story that relied on apparently doctored information about an email produced to the Select Committee.

5. Gowdy’s Taxpayer-Funded Political Campaign Against Clinton

The Committee was given an unlimited, taxpayer-funded budget, and it has now spent more than $4.6 million in one of the longest and least productive investigations in congressional history—focused on Clinton.

The Committee is being used by Republican fundraisers to attack Clinton.

The Committee’s attacks were described by the conservative PAC America Rising as a taxpayer-funded political activity: “This has all occurred without a single cent of paid advertising taking place.”

Gowdy’s name, image, and position has been used to solicit political donations by Stop Hillary PAC, which describes itself as “created for one reason only—to ensure Hillary Clinton never becomes President of the United States.

Gowdy appeared at a GOP political event in June where local Rep. Chuck Fleischmann explained: “Whether you are Hillary Clinton or any other lefty out there, you better beware because Trey Gowdy is out there and he is going to get you.”

Gowdy reportedly does not plan to release his findings until “just months before the 2016 presidential election.”

Gowdy’s approach has been criticized even by conservative commentators: “Whatever the findings are in this investigation—it will forever be plagued by allegations of unfairness, and politics if this investigation is dragged into 2016. That would not be fair to the American people.”

It’s clear from this report that the House Committee on Benghazi already had its conclusion written – that Hillary Clinton was somehow guilty – and the proceedings were nothing but a formality, a cursory lip service to due process in one of the most disgraceful smear campaign ever perpetrated by American elected officials. It is time for this committee to be shut down, and for a new one to be instituted in its place- to investigate House committee members for their gross ethics violations and misuse of public funds.


34 posted on 10/21/2015 5:04:51 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: The Final Harvest

It looks like we will be able to see it live:
http://www.c-span.org/#capital-headers


35 posted on 10/21/2015 5:48:55 PM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I’m guessing “you won’t find any evidence of that” will be used often.


36 posted on 10/21/2015 5:56:05 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: Cruz_West_Paul2016

No, she’ll DRINK it!


37 posted on 10/21/2015 6:05:21 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

Yes. And “This is just a partisan attack to bring down my poll numbers...”


38 posted on 10/21/2015 6:06:22 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: JohnnyP

Well .. when I checked earlier, they had it scheduled for 855 am on C-SPAN3.

Hmmmmm ..?? Maybe I was not the only one complaining.

I’ll be checking back for this link .. and hopefully we will be able to watch it.

I have a project specifically set aside to work on while the hearing is going on.


39 posted on 10/21/2015 6:09:27 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: Thank You Rush

855 am (and I think that’s Eastern time zone.)


40 posted on 10/21/2015 6:10:43 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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