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Live Thread: Sec. of State Clinton to Testify on U.S. Consulate Attack in Benghazi
C-SPAN ^ | Wednesday, January 23, 2013

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 113th; benghazi; benghazihearings; christopherstevens; hillarysenatehearing; leonpanetta; libya; soshillary; usembassy; waronterror
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To: gov_bean_ counter

She quickly tries to shift the blame to Congress.


281 posted on 01/23/2013 8:23:52 AM PST by RightField (one of the obstreperous citizens insisting on incorrect thinking - C. Krauthamer)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Rand Paul on fire against Hillary. says you didn’t read the cables. says
I would have relieved you of your position immediately.

Says if she was more on top of the job, this was a failure of leadership, and she has culpability for the worst tragedy since 9/11. Says he is glad she has accepted that responsibility.

Hillary asked if the annex was involved on the transfer of weapons to Syria!

Hillary says she has no knowledge of that.

Rand Paul is the only one taking this hearing seriously.


282 posted on 01/23/2013 8:23:52 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Uncle Chip

BAM!!! Loving Rand.


283 posted on 01/23/2013 8:23:57 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: acsrp38
Are we looking for real tough investigative questions for Broomhildy, or the b*&ch slap?

Must we choose???
I'd like the combo today, please...

284 posted on 01/23/2013 8:24:18 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
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To: who knows what evil?; onyx

>We’re going to see what Rand Paul is made of right here...<

That would be gravitas.


285 posted on 01/23/2013 8:24:18 AM PST by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: Rennes Templar

Rand Paul up. Asking about the fired people. Hillary has her ignoring the question smile on while listening to Paul’s question. Paul do not let her filibuster! She does not know anything about weapons being shipped to Turkey - LIE!


286 posted on 01/23/2013 8:24:23 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: rodguy911
Don't ask me what happened cause I won't friggin' tell ya. I am here to tell you that it won't happen again that's the administrations talking point.!!

It was decided by axelrod and he forwarded it to Jarrett. That's what I am supposed to say!! Only that we don't want it to happen again.

So stop asking me what happend!! I won't tell you anything.


I believe your summary. It's why I cannot watch most Senate hearings in recent memory.
287 posted on 01/23/2013 8:24:46 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: t1b8zs

Paul’s questioning is outstanding in this dog and pony show.


288 posted on 01/23/2013 8:24:54 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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“If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn’t have a clear picture and we probably didn’t do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later…” -Hillary Clinton

YOU WERE WATCHING IT ON LIVE FEED!!! Who cares what the CLEAR PICTURE IS! When you have Americans dying on American soil, you send in reinforcements!!!
289 posted on 01/23/2013 8:25:17 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Rand Paul is laying out the $ we’ve spent on comedians, etc.... He’s really laying her out. Calls it a failure of leadership not to know that Benghazi was a hot spot. Now he’s asking if we are shipping weapons from Lybia to Turkey. She’s getting read in the face and isn’t wanting to answer. Says doesn’t know and hasn’t heard that information. He points out that there have been news reports. She is falling back on state dept. emps that were chastised for failure. Rand says never should have sent people in without military guard. Says someone needs to make an “executive decision” to send military to hazardous places. Hillary stating that she IS the SOS, and the state department has been as transparent as they can and that the accountability review board was put together to take it out of the arena of politics. She claims to have called for transparency. Then she wrote Rand Paul’s name on her “hate list.” Whew..... She looks relieved to be moving on to Senator Murphy (D).


290 posted on 01/23/2013 8:25:42 AM PST by MWestMom (Will Americans stop someone who views our children as "collateral damage" in their quest for power?)
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To: rodguy911
Was Benghazi being used as a shipping point to Turkey for weapons or anywhere else.

She didn't want to touch that one with a 10 foot pole! "you'll have to ask the agency (CIA) in charge of that outpost!"

291 posted on 01/23/2013 8:25:46 AM PST by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: gov_bean_ counter

‘petting’ Hillary
even the media does it.

Clinton: Nobody more committed to security
By DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press
Updated 7:54 am, Wednesday, January 23, 2013

http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Clinton-Nobody-more-committed-to-security-4215762.php


292 posted on 01/23/2013 8:26:46 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“They” are going to be speaking to Rand behind closed doors after this...Paul/Cruz 2016?


293 posted on 01/23/2013 8:26:46 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: mrsmith

Connecticut a-hole invokes Iraq war and avoids the subject


294 posted on 01/23/2013 8:26:46 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: onyx

Wow, Rand Paul is NOT his father! He has gone way up in my estimation today! Hope he stays out there and piles it on, day after day for the next 4 years.


295 posted on 01/23/2013 8:26:51 AM PST by MomofMarine
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To: exit82

Chris Murphy from CT ass kissing, Hillary smiles lovingly back at him.

I continue to vomit.

Please let this hearing be over soon.

Rand Paul is a real .american. .the rest obviously have a file on them held by the Dems, and they know it. what a waste of time.


296 posted on 01/23/2013 8:27:03 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Darnright

He could have been good if he just asked one question at a time and got some kind of answer. ONE QUESTION AT A TIME!


297 posted on 01/23/2013 8:27:11 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: who knows what evil?

WOW! He’s GOOD!


298 posted on 01/23/2013 8:27:24 AM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: onyx

I hope you watched or will watch, Agenda: Grinding America Down - How Liberals Indoctrinated The US., posted by Jim Robinson yesterday.

I watched this TWO weeks ago and yes it is very eye opening.


299 posted on 01/23/2013 8:28:25 AM PST by GraceG
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To: mrsmith

Is she under oath?


300 posted on 01/23/2013 8:28:32 AM PST by acsrp38 (Obama lied, people died, Solyndra, etc.etc.etc.)
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