Posted on 01/23/2013 8:31:44 AM PST by lbryce
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the misinformation that came out about the Benghazi attacks in their immediate aftermath no longer mattered, saying that the important thing was to find the persons responsible.
Clinton had a heated exchange with Sen. Ron Johnson during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when he questioned her about the initial reports on the motives behind the attacks on the U.S. Embassy that left four Americans dead. Initially, UN Ambassador Susan Rice blamed the attacks on protests over an anti-Muslim video when she appeared on the Sunday shows, apparently speaking off of talking points prepared by the intelligence community.
On Wednesday, Johnson accused her of “purposefully misleading the American people” by blaming nonexistent protests.
“With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. If it was because of a protest or if it was because guys out for a walk decided to go kill some Americans. What difference does it make?” Clinton shot back in a raised voice.
“It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. Now, honestly, I will do my best to answer my questions about this but the fact is that people were trying in real time to get the best information … but you know, to be clear, it is from my perspective, less important today looking backward as to why these militants decided to do it, as to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we’ll figure out what was going on in the meantime.”
Asked why a phone call was not made to clarify the facts before Amb. Rice went on the Sunday shows, Clinton said that those concerns took a backseat to taking care of the injured.
“I would say that once the assault happened, and once we got our people rescued and out, our most immediate concern was number one, taking care of their injuries…the FBI went over immediately to start talking to them. We did not think it was appropriate for us to speak to them before the FBI conducted their interview, and we did not, I think this is accurate, sir, I certainly did not know of any reports that contradicted the IC talking points at the time that Ambassador Rice went on the TV shows,” Clinton said.
“And you know, I just want to say that when people have accused Amb. Rice and the administration of misleading Americans, I can say trying to be in the middle of this and understanding what was going on, nothing could be further from the truth,” she said.
What difference does it make if you were at the embassy at the time and ended up with the same fate as the others?
You see how much fun this little parlor game can be?
What difference does it make is a brilliant political boiler-plate with infinite applications that epitomizes everything the Obama Administration has come to mean, characterize without even the need of having to say it.
Yawn , she had plenty of time to be well trained by her handlers
Look H!, we’re trying to nail jello to the wall here, so try you stay still or we’ll have to freeze you with a mirror returning your icy stare.
“Those people are dead and buried! And we covered it up successfully to get the president re-elected! Why are you asking me about this now?? What difference does it make??”
“And you know, I just want to say that when people have accused Amb. Rice and the administration of misleading Americans, I can say trying to be in the middle of this and understanding what was going on, nothing could be further from the truth,” she said.
I’m surprised she didn’t Spontaneous combust after that wopper.
With all of the millions of gov't workers on the payroll, the gov't can't do two things at once?
What differrence does it make?
I don’t know, let’s ask the families of those left to die.
Imagine if this had been said..about 40 years ago...
“What diffeence does it make”, if I knew about the break-in or not?? our job is to make sure it does not happen again..
yeah..THAT would have worked REALLY well in the watergate hearings, right??
I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO tired of EVIL having it’s day in our lives anymore....I CAN’T BEGIN TO EVEN SAY WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO!!!
It was to be a staged kidnapping with the president organizing a “rescue” as an October surpise.
It went “bad” when the SEALs refused to stand down as ordered.
The kidnappers were angered and tortured and killed the ambassador.
man, did you nail it!
A democrat can do anything he or she wants and get away with it especially if that party is in power. And I blame the republicans for allowing them to get that power.
As I’ve said before, the republicans should start voting in lock step with the dems or just go home and let the dems own it all with no one to blame it on.
A democrat can do anything he or she wants and get away with it especially if that party is in power. And I blame the republicans for allowing them to get that power.
As I’ve said before, the republicans should start voting in lock step with the dems or just go home and let the dems own it all with no one to blame it on.
All of the 70,000 employees of the State Department were at the hospital to assist in the emergency medical treatments.
My screen name justified. Again.
Susan Rice be damned.
HILLARY.
The witch stood in front of four coffins and blamed a video. She then joined obamalama wing wong in making an ad to be shown in Pakistan apologizing for said video and no one has had the guts to even mention it.
Translation - I got those guys killed but don't worry about that, look over here.
“their injuries...”
Whose, where are they, where are their testimonies of what was going on, etc.????
Thumbing her elitist nose at our four murdered, fellow Americans. Utterly disgusting.
The administration claims that al-Qaeda has been “decimated.” In other words, its numbers have been reduced by only ten percent. Is this something to boast about?
Not good for the witch. Any memorable quote will remind the public of her incompetence well into the future. Of course, the Leftist operatives posing as journalists will try to spin this to her favor, but that still draws more attention to a losing issue.
This proves that our best strategy is attack, attack and it works on Leftists.
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