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.
Right, the Dems are going to make this about resources and the political conditions in the Middle East. This is crap. As someone who worked in the State Department for 28 years, I can see this is just a transparent attempt to increase the budget by taking advantage of the Benghazi attack. Resources had nothing to do with the security status of the facility or the cover-up. The Dems will not pursue any tough questions and the Reps are so far just going thru the motions.
What a joke!
that would be Ma’am Boxer!
it’s good that the House follows...they get to hear this BS before hand..
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Yes, time is getting short, and ms Clinton is a world master at stalling, deflecting and outright lying.
Sadly, my friend has said with much wisdom......
'There are so few (Chaffetz) to overcome this present administration and the administrations to come....'
And why put any hope in Lindsay....haven't we learned, by now, which way his wind blows.
So the Mali uprising the result of the fall of Khadafi!!!
And you didn’t see that coming when you sent forces in there to bring down Khadaffi???
And you are so proud of what you have done in Libya???
There is only one person who can do that.
I watched about 10 minutes of this before I shut it off. There’s only so much torture one can take of this poser show. I mean really, who are we kidding here? The Republican party no longer exists and nothing is going to be done. Even if they had Hitlery on video tape screaming “STAND DOWN STAND DOWN! ALLOW THEM TO ATTACK! ALLOW THEM TO KILL!” in her “I am sick and tired” voice...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxmpTMGhU0
..and then high-fiving the twice unconstitutionally elected admitted foreign born Kenyan when she learned Stevens was dead, they STILL wouldn’t do anything because we got nothing but a bunch of RINO wusses posing as men today. This hearing is a joke. It is performance art made to make the morons in this country think it’s all “the Republicans fault” just like the 911 hearings.
Holy Cow she just said that they have yet to meet with the 30 individuals who were flown out!
Are the coke bottle spectacles meant to elicit sympathy? Surely technology has progressed beyond thick lenses!
No kidding.
The Untouchables.
We’ll see a big picture of her on tv of when she tried to cry. “oh she’s so compassionate”:/
This is ridiculous. It’s a cheerleading session for hillary. I don’t know what I thought I was going to see, but this is bizarre.
I could’ve had a V8.
Hillary is now just running out the clock on the questions. She has her huge briefing book in front of her that contains the talking points for all anticipated questions from the Reps and the known ones from the Dems.
Yes we now know where one of the 30 is.
We’ll see a big picture of her on tv of when she tried to cry. “oh she’s so compassionate”:/
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Fox News Radio is ALREADY running the sound byte of her getting ‘choked up’. Disgusting.
I’m waiting for Rubio..Riisch let let off the hook about Rice...according to Hillary a few mid level SD officials decided to send Rice our..WHO...
I’m waiting for Rubio..Riisch let let off the hook about Rice...according to Hillary a few mid level SD officials decided to send Rice out..WHO????...
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