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Live Thread: Sec. of State Clinton to Testify on U.S. Consulate Attack in Benghazi
C-SPAN ^ | Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Posted on 01/23/2013 5:58:01 AM PST by kristinn

Senate hearing: 9:00a.m. EST. House hearing: 2:00 p.m. EST

Watch live here. Also on C-SPAN 3.

In her first testimony since the Benghazi attack, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will participate in a full day of hearings Wednesday about U.S. diplomatic security and the American mission in Libya.

Sec. Clinton will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the morning followed by an afternoon testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In December, the State Department's highest ranking foreign service officers, William Burns and Thomas Nides, testified before Congressional lawmakers in the Secretary's place. They discussed a new report by an independent panel assessing the Benghazi attack.

Deputy Sec. Nides put several recommendations from a report on the attack into effect before the end of 2012. Implementing the rest, Nides said, will be underway by the time the next Secretary of State takes office. Three State Department officials have resigned since the report was released.

The two officials were substituting for Secretary Clinton, who was recovering from a concussion she suffered after fainting due to dehydration from a stomach virus.

Four Americans were killed in that attack, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens. Congress is investigating whether the State Department denied a request for extra security at that outpost earlier in the year and what actions were taken in the moments after the attack began.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 113th; benghazi; benghazihearings; christopherstevens; hillarysenatehearing; leonpanetta; libya; soshillary; usembassy; waronterror
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To: rodguy911

She is triangulating and parsing words. What does “we” mean? State? CIA apparently was leading the ops in Benghazi. It doesn’t appear we will ever know what really was going on there with the MSM covering for them.


341 posted on 01/23/2013 8:43:08 AM PST by lodi90
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That’s it??? That’s all there is??? That’s her swan song???

All we got was the same old verse — a little bit louder a little less averse.


342 posted on 01/23/2013 8:43:08 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: exit82
Saying the takeaway is lack of funding to protect our diplomats.

At $1.something TRILLION in extra spending per year, there is NO LACK OF FUNDING FOR ANYTHING!!
343 posted on 01/23/2013 8:43:22 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: kristinn

What a dog and pony show..It will never come out that the adminstration was running guns,and they wound up with terrorists...She will not be tarnished...She was well rehearsed...Rand Paul had the gonads to ask the question...


344 posted on 01/23/2013 8:43:54 AM PST by rxtn41
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To: rodguy911
... Its what the Clinton's do best.

Yup!

345 posted on 01/23/2013 8:44:14 AM PST by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: mandaladon

You’re right about that.

Communists all, too.


346 posted on 01/23/2013 8:44:18 AM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: NormsRevenge

Revolutionary times? Who fueled it and helped assasinate a foreign leader. Obama admin IMO caused Benghazi. It is worse than negligence


347 posted on 01/23/2013 8:44:17 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Uncle Chip

The House gets to take a swing at her this afternoon.


348 posted on 01/23/2013 8:44:36 AM PST by MWestMom (Will Americans stop someone who views our children as "collateral damage" in their quest for power?)
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To: exit82
The house is the final line of questioning. If they fail, we are on our own.

I'm just hoping some few in the House will come through for us today. Jeff Duncan, I'm counting on YOU.
349 posted on 01/23/2013 8:45:47 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: onyx

Demos calling in on the Republican line (acting as if they’re Repubs) on CSpan bashing Rand Paul and McCain.


350 posted on 01/23/2013 8:47:20 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Darnright

Did anyone ask her why they weren’t on top of things in that region AFTER Bengazi? Why the same faction of Al Queda was allowed to pull off a hostage/terror attack near the Libyan border. Haven’t they improved their “intelligence” gathering and security?


351 posted on 01/23/2013 8:47:45 AM PST by jersey117
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To: acsrp38

no


352 posted on 01/23/2013 8:49:33 AM PST by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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Hillary’s response to Ron Johnson will come back to haunt the smartest woman in the world big time:

“What difference does it make whether it was militants or a protest out of control.”

What??? It makes a big difference. One is a terrorist attack.


353 posted on 01/23/2013 8:51:08 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Darnright

354 posted on 01/23/2013 8:54:45 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: shooter223

She wasn’t under oath? Are you sure?


355 posted on 01/23/2013 8:55:24 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

A caller just asked why there were two key questions not addressed:

Who gave Rice the talking points to claim that it was caused by a video?

And who gave the order to Stand Down.

Perhaps someone in the House will follow up.


356 posted on 01/23/2013 8:57:21 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Resettozero
I'm just hoping some few in the House will come through for us today. Jeff Duncan, I'm counting on YOU.

I just sent a pile of questions for Mo Brooks to ask... probably too late, but what the heck.

357 posted on 01/23/2013 8:57:39 AM PST by alancarp (Obama will grab your guns and ship them to Mexican drug mobs.)
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To: zzeeman
ONe of the scenarios I heard/read was that the good weapons the ones that actually worked were brought to Benghazi where they were sold to the Saudis who along with the US shipped them to Turkey. From there to Syria to the MB and who knows who else.

Truth is Benghazi was a median point to ship weapons from rpgs to shoulder fired stuff all over the mideast. Much of it confiscated from quackdafi.

358 posted on 01/23/2013 8:58:31 AM PST by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: Uncle Chip
Hillary’s response to Ron Johnson will come back to haunt the smartest woman in the world big time

I agree and so do a lot of people:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23whatdifferencedoesitmake&src=hash
359 posted on 01/23/2013 9:03:10 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
How she has aged. All those lies, Bubba and whatever she drinks to dull the pain, has aged her. All the money in the world can't hide the history on her face...that is, unless she decides to cut that mangy, long hair style, tighten up her face, and dress like someone other than a bag lady. But, who cares, she has to go down for what she is guilty of. Let's see what happens......
360 posted on 01/23/2013 9:04:52 AM PST by itssme
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