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.
Ooooooooo. Now she’s acting like she’s all butthurt.
She’s on the attack....
Ron Johnson’s questions to the point are getting under Hillary’s nerves.
Did she just say that the reason the Marines are posted at embassies is to protect classified information, not people?
She’s BEEN mad. Her body language gives away how furious she is to be sitting there.
Under the table?
The idea that no one in State or the CIA talked to the people who were rescued is nonsense. It is an outright lie. You don’t wait for the FBI to interview them. The people from the Embassy in Tripoli spoke with them. When they went to Germany they were interviewed. And the same holds true for when they went to Washington. There is always a debriefing by DS.
“We have four dead Americans . . . what difference does it make?”
(The other side has a penchant for creative editing too.)
hot damn that’s funny
Senator Johnson is the only one who went after her and she got mad.
She’s been coasting along with the spineless others.
Hillary said she talked to only one of them!!!She is letting the FBI be the fall guy.
Did she just say that the reason the Marines are posted at embassies is to protect classified information, not people?
Senator Johnson got under her skin for sure. I wonder what is in his FBI file that she can use to get back at him.
I missed a lot of this in the beginning. After this is over, would someone make a list of the best questions and who asked them, so we can go back and review the video looking for only those senators worth listening to.
You crazy kids here on FR just don't get it.
Benghazi was last year.
This year is evil assault weapons. We don't have time to rehash old news. We have to get busy dismantling the Constitution starting with the 2nd Amendment.
Come on... try and keep up.
(Obama Admin/MSM memo to those wacky kids at Free Republic)
She is a freaking time bomb but few of the Pubbies have the guts to light the fuse...
Wow, Dem woman (Cheney?) comes close to asking why sufficient military/security resources werent there for the ambassador or available to rescue him.
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