Posted on 06/10/2014 11:17:47 AM PDT by mandaladon
A standard defense for Hillary Rodham Clinton when facing questions about Benghazi, Libya, has been to cite her commissioning of a report from the State Departments Accountability Review Board (ARB), which took a deep look at the attacks that claimed the lives of four U.S. personnel on Sept. 11, 2012. In testimony before Congress in January 2013, Clinton said: I hurried to appoint the Accountability Review Board led by Ambassador Pickering and Admiral Mullen so we could more fully understand from objective, independent examination, what went wrong and how to fix it. I have accepted every one of their recommendations.
In an interview with Clinton that aired last night on ABC News, anchor Diane Sawyer threw the ARB right back in the face of the former secretary of state. The two tangled over the preparedness of the U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi for a terrorist attack. In defending her work on this front, Clinton stressed that she had delegated the particulars of security to the experts in the field. Im not equipped to sit and look at blueprints to determine where the blast walls need to be, where the reinforcements need to be. Thats why we hire people who have that expertise, said Clinton, who did the interview as part of the tour for her book Hard Choices.
Sensing an opening, Sawyer cited the document that Clinton herself has so often cited: This is the ARB: the mission was far short of standards; weak perimeter; incomplete fence; video surveillance needed repair. They said its a systemic failure.
Clinton replied, Well, it was with respect to that compound. The anchor continued pressing, asking Clinton whether the people might be seeking from her a sentence that begins from you I should have
? Clinton sort of ducked that one.
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Her lips are moving - I saw them !!
Perhaps she suddenly realized that “The Smartest Woman in America” is actually a dishonest, scheming halfwit whose greatest accomplishment in life was riding her husband’s coattails.
hillaries book is just a scam to conceal donors who want to go past the limits and for donors outside the usa.
Did she point out that Clinton wasn’t asked to testify in these hearings?
I wonder if my neighbor needs something for his bird cage floor.
Reportedly, in 2011 Billy Jeff was paid $750k to travel to Hong Kong to speak to employees at the Swedish telecom giant Ericsson, $700k for an appearance at a newspaper publishing company in Lagos, and $550k for a speech to a business conference in Shanghai. His pay rate works out to roughly $11k per minute.
Libs are turning on Ms. Rodham ?
I agree - the Media are reluctantly asking some hard questions so that Clinton can say Asked & Answered if asked again - I don’t think the ones with the Big Bucks are all that enthusiastic about her so that could mean a fresh new face waiting in the wings posing as Blue Dog Pollyanna or Opie all grown up. Or will there be someone anointed like a Perot type to split the vote even more? I wish it actually mattered, as nothing changes no matter who wins. We haven’t had a real president or Congress in a long time - just court jesters posing as Oligarchs.
Just shutup and buy my damn book?
Democratic feminists like Diane Sawyer want Elizabeth Warren to be the Democratic candidate for president and then the first woman president of the United States — not Hillary Clinton, who’s old, carries a ton of political baggage, and whose entire political career was made possible by her husband, not by her own merits.
Today, Mika Brezinzki joined Diane on the anti-Hillary bandwagon. Who’s left to support her? Any member of the liberal MSM who now gives Hillary a softball interview will look like a fool or a paid accomplice.
And it’s not just that Elizabeth Warren would be a better candidate from the perspective of liberal women, it’s also that Hillary is using her ill-gotten power to keep an Elizabeth Warren candidacy suppressed so she’s out of the running, much like the Evil Stepmother kept Cinderella hidden in the basement. No wonder the Mikas and Dianes are trying to send the poor, dead-broke Hillary into retirement in one her multi-million-dollar homes.
That does actually take expertise (considerable) so although she is using the fact as a dodge, I'll give her a pass (this time).
The pass does not apply to the rest of the interview.
Whenever any liberal “takes full responsibility”, it is with full knowledge that absolutely no consequences are to follow.
In other words, “I was in charge before I wasn’t”, or some other such clintonian crap.
I saved 100.00%!
” The accountability-heavy moment came when Sawyers slow and steady line of questioning on Benghazi security prompted Clinton to utter this self-contradictory and sure-to-be-repeated statement: I take responsibility, but I was not making security decisions. “
Clinton then said, “yes, yes, I take full responsibility for those four men’s deaths, but I didn’t have anything to do with it.” She finished with her well known sigh, “What difference does any of it make, any more?”
Diane Sawyer did not ask where she was on 9/11 or where obama was. Diane is a good socialist. Give her millions and she will say whatever you want. This was a put up job with Clinton involvement. In the future Clinton can just say she has answered all questions.
Hillary Clinton blames Stevens and then George Bush for the lack of security.
You posted:
“...in that cover photo it looks like someone’s got a finger shoved up her.............
bottom”
First of all that “someone” is Huma. Second, it might be a finger. Or it might be something that’s includes a strap.
Also clintoon strategy to get all the bad scandal stuff covered so that voters have forgotten about it by election day. (i.e gennifer flowers and the rest of the bimbo parade)
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