Posted on 12/16/2012 11:17:13 PM PST by neverdem
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won't testify to Congress next week on Benghazi, after fainting and suffering a concussion Saturday and due to her ongoing stomach ailment.
"While suffering from a stomach virus, Secretary Clinton became dehydrated and fainted, sustaining a concussion," Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Philippe Reines said in a statement. "She has been recovering at home and will continue to be monitored regularly by her doctors. At their recommendation, she will continue to work from home next week, staying in regular contact with Department and other officials. She is looking forward to being back in the office soon."
Deputy Secretaries of State Bill Burns and Tom Nides will both testify in Clinton's place, according to the office of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA).
"Secretary Clinton's team contacted Senator Kerry this morning to inform them of the Secretary's concussion. Senator Kerry was relieved to hear that the Secretary is on the mend, but he insisted that given her condition, she could not and should not appear on Thursday as previously planned, and that the nation's best interests are served by the report and hearings proceeding as scheduled with senior officials appearing in her place," said Kerry spokeswoman Jodi Seth in a statement.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) had already announced that Clinton would appear to talk about the result of the State Department's own internal review of the events leading up to and during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. That review is being completed now by an Accountability Review Board (ARB) led by former Undersecretary of State Tom Pickering and including former Joint Chiefs Chairman ret. Adm. Mike Mullen...
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Come on, this is so damned transparent I can’t believe anyone in his right mind would fall for it. Will we never be rid of this infernal trash?
Speaking of falling, did you hear about the awful injury on a Septa bus in Philly the other day?
sack of inner city ankle tripe hillary.
....by the way has her daughter learned how to launder her blue dress?
chmp-ot
sack of inner city ankle tripe hillary.
....by the way has her daughter learned how to launder her blue dress?
chmp-ot
It is BS. Wasn’t she just on some show with Barbara Walters?
Twenty-eight dead in Connecticut will continue to dominate the news.
Well, the word “concussion” does actually mean “all shook up,”
That theoretical test case, the 2 a.m. call, did came for Hillary and now it’s proven that she was never ready for executive officer any more than Obama was. Two terrible Marxist politicos are running the country together.
OF COURSE THIS IS B.S but if 51% of the stupid class Americans buy this it won’t matter.
Obama: “Okay. Just a little pinprick. There’ll be no more. . . “
Hillary: “AHHHHHHHHHH!”
Obama: “. . . but you may feel a little sick. Can you stand up? I do believe it’s working. Good. That’ll keep you going for the show. Come on, it’s time to go.”
Good. Have it testify, under oath, when it returns. There's no statute of limitations on TREASON.
Is she going through a forced dry out? Detox would take a few days.
Including the 100% unskeptical media.
Exactly
She won’t be testifying because she is a murderer, cheat, liar and thief running for POTUS.
kid:...my brother ate my homework
teacher:..don’t you mean your dog?
kid:....no he ate him three weeks ago
Gutless fat lady.
Recall that Gonzales, under the direction of Shrub, visited said Ashcroft at said hospital and demanded that certain documents be signed by Ashcroft, no matter his condition.
Ashcroft refused.
Has any of the House GOP even suggested "... Well, we will go to her - let's load the car(s) and go - now."
The delay, deny, ... tactic is so effective against the GOP that, like "Fast and Furious", that Benghazi will also become ... nothing here, move along.
Arkancide, as practiced by the Current Regime.
But they are so incompentent, the most they could manage was gastro-intestional distress. The fall and concussion was just a bonus, but they missed the big prize.
It doesn’t matter any more. The public’s limited attention span is already over. Ask them what Benghazi is and they’ll reply that it’s a pain ointment.
The commander in chief got away with it, and nobody cares.
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