Posted on 05/07/2013 3:37:30 PM PDT by smoothsailing
May 7, 2013
Jeff Poor
Senior Fox News political analyst Brit Hume laid out why this week’s testimony on last September’s terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya could be problematic for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Hume, speaking on Tuesday’s broadcast of “America Live,” said there is no feasible way for her to escape any responsibility since she had to be involved in the crafting of the talking points that came out after the attack that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including then-U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
“There’s really no way for her to escape responsibility for this if this testimony does what we all expect now that it will do,” Hume said. “Of course, over the years in Washington I’ve seen many a hype hearing fail to live up to expectations. But if it does live up, there’s no way I think she can escape this. I think she recognized from the start that this was trouble. I don’t think it was an accident that Susan Rice, the U.N. ambassador, who was kind of an unusual choice, was the person who went out on the Sunday shows to recite those talking points. I think then-Secretary Clinton knew that the talking points were shaky.”
“She may have participated in making them shaky,” Hume continued. “But she did not want any of that mud on her shoes that might be caused. And Susan Rice, of course, has paid a price for being the one who recited them. But we also know, as you suggest, Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokeswoman was involved in the crafting of those talking points. She reports directly or indirectly to Hillary Clinton, and she was telling the other people that were crafting the points that ‘my building,’ that means Hillary Clinton’s State Department, had a problem with this or that or the other thing and they were changed at her behest. Secretary Clinton cannot escape responsibility for that.”
Hume said that even if Clinton were able to show she had nothing to do with the Benghazi tragedy, it would demonstrate a dereliction of duty, something that could prove to be a burden on any potential presidential ambitions she has.
“Let’s assume that she claims that she didn’t have any responsibility for that,” Hume said. “What does that say about her stewardship of her department at a moment when a terrible thing has happened to an ambassador whom we’re to believe and she’s given every indication she had great faith in and cared a lot about? The murdered ambassador there was her subordinate. The staff there at the embassy were her subordinates. So if she took a walk during this, that doesn’t exactly recommend her for the person that will receive the middle of the night phone calls, does it?”
“I mean, I don’t think there’s any way for her to escape this even if she succeeds in arguing that she didn’t have her fingerprints on it,” he continued. “If she didn’t, she should have. And when she heard the talking points recited, she had to know they were wrong. If she didn’t, that’s dereliction. And if she didn’t know they were wrong, she should have said something. So she’s — I just don’t think there’s any way out, really. Look, she’ll get a vast amount of forgiveness. She’s an icon of the Democratic Party. A lot of people in the media will want to excuse her if they can, but the facts will prove too heavy.”
Hume also said Clinton’s service at the State Department wasn’t particularly distinguished, which is another thing political opponents could use against her in a primary and/or general election.
“We’ll have to see how bad it gets, but it’s certainly a weapon in the hands of her potential opponents, both within her party and in a general election if she gets that far,” he said. “And the other thing, Megyn, is this also contributes to another question, which is — was she really a very successful and special secretary of state? I think the case for that is pretty weak. There was no great Clinton doctrine in foreign policy. Are there any treaties that she forwarded and help negotiate that made a big difference? Is the situation in the Middle East, which has always been a tinderbox that every American secretary of state must deal with — is that markedly improved by virtue of her stewardship of the State Department? I think the answer to all of those questions is probably no. So is this really a great credential for her as the last job she held going into a presidential campaign?”
they will all skate. This will never catch on.
But that NBA guy coming out, now that’s a story ...of real courage.
Let’s try that again:
She’d just be an angry, marginal socialist if she hadn’t gotten her hooks into Bill Clinton. She had NO experience for the job. The State Dept requires a stellar person.
Yea, sure, . . . right after she's convicted in Vince Foster's murder.
Jennifer Flowers affair
Blood-gate, Arkansas prisoners Hepatitis B sent to Canada
Whitewater/Madison Guaranty
Hollywood haircut shuts down airport
Middle Class tax cut retracted
FBI Files improperly obtained and reviewed
Who hired David Livingstone?
Waco Texas
Attorney General nominees didn't pay nanny taxes
Travelgate - Billy Dale framed
Cattlegate - Hillary's $100,000 payoff
Jocelyn Elders - condoms to children
Linda Trip - lewd pickup attempt
Lincoln bedroom for sale
Selling of plots at Arlington National Cemetery
Buddhist temple fund raiser
Monica Lewinski & the Blue Dress
Clinton lied about seeing Black churches burning
Bombing an Aspirin factory in Sudan
Selling military technology to China
Rose Law Firm files found in Hillary's bedroom
Foster "suicide" - files taken by Hillary
Foster "suicide" note- proven it was not written by Foster
Ron Brown dies just before being indicted
Chinagate- 115 plead 5th of flee the country
Teamster Funds diverted to DNC
12 former body guards dead
Juanita Broaderic rape charge
Kathleen Willey - Whitehouse hallway assault
Kathleen Willey's cat killed with threat
Elizabeth Ward Grecen rape charge
Clinton's perjury
Obstruction of justice by delaying delivery of files
White HOuse coffees
1 Million Illegal immigrants rushed through naturalization PRIOR to 1996 elections.
100,000 White House e-mails disappeared
Elian Gonzalez seizure
Pardengate - Denise Rich pleads the fifth,
Pardengate - Hillary's brother gets $500,000 payoff
Benghazi
Lol, good one for this thread I.M. Wish she really would SING!
-PJ
She really blew this tactically as Billy Jeff in his prime never would have. She should have taken "full responsibility" in that way politicians do without really taking responsibility and started to make it "old news." Taking the route she did will just let it fester.
Well, it turned out to an “overcharge” button which is appropo from a Clinton.
Eye bleach alert! Good gollie Joe. She looks old.
Remember January 8, 1996 ???
Blizzard of Lies
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/08/opinion/essay-blizzard-of-lies.html
Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.
Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.
He cannot be elected (re-elected), but Kankles can!
Oh, Lol - you guys are more bloodthirsty than we women! My text had a ‘gentle’ blood drip......hehehe
I have always feared Obamas Gotterdamerung “Bless Be Wagner”. I think and I have said this before he was elected the first time. If he is in danger of being Impeached or in any kind of trouble, we will see his outright downfall moment. When he says to hell with these people and if they want to take me down I will take them down also. Could be a false flag set up or a nuclear attack on any number of countries. He is evil and as an evil man he would love nothing better then to destroy America. IMHO
The NAGS will never ditch Shiite-llery, their phallic queen. Unless there is divine intervention, the old hag will be the ‘16 ‘Rat crook.
Who is responsible for what is irrelevant! It’s the fellow congress critters and the voters who ultimately decide.
Brit, What part of: “it happened a long time ago” do you not understand?
I think about this woman and I always wonder exactly WHAT she has ever done that was "distinguished. Nothing.
It is that lefty thing of always telling us that their people are always the smartest people on the planet. It is never true; but, they continue to make the claim and the media continues to push that idea.
I think history is on your side on that prediction. The Clintons always skate.
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