Live Thread: Sec. of State Clinton to Testify on U.S. Consulate Attack in Benghazi

C-SPAN ^ | Wednesday, January 23, 2013

[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.

[NormsRevenge]

Hillary says,, Hey, it’s revolutionary times in Africa, nobody knows what will happen.. Can’t we all just get over politics and get along?

Can’t wait ‘til we experience them times here.. again.

[rodguy911]

I understand, hard to put up with most of this crap.

[onyx]

Rand got her on that Turkey and arms questions and the follow up! “It’s been in the newspapers.”

[Sirius Lee]

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!

It's okay. Hopefully some in the House are researching those questions for followup in this afternoon's session.

[mrsmith]

Yeah, but about the Turkey role she should have deniablility.
She’d be aware that Stevens was working on getting loose arms out of Libya but not of where they were going.

[onyx]

I hear you!

[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!<

The problem with your idea is the very short time in which these individuals have to question Clinton.

Sen Paul needed to fire questions at her to get them on the record.

[onyx]

BTW, Grandmother of US Marine.

[NormsRevenge]

sounds like the DEms had their strateggy all laid out, kiss her rosy red butt at every opp and cover for their failings.
a sham is a sham is a .. uhhhh

[maica]

Did Rand Paul mix up Turkey and Syria? Hillary seemed shocked when he said Turkey. Perhaps she was ready with a response for a question about Syria.

[Lucky9teen]

Caption Clinton Testifyin' Thread

[CGASMIA68]

Dems have no desire to find the truth and assign guilt.
This is BS

[Darnright]

How I miss Corin and his wonderful gif of Tim Kaine’s eyebrow at this point in time!

[NormsRevenge]

she admits she’s clueless, she’s a victim of a hugh blobocracy yaknow of ‘responsible’ folks at State to read all the cables sent in and act appropriately.

[Red_Devil 232]

The weapons were going to Turkey first and then into Syria from there.

[who knows what evil?]

Did Rand Paul mix up Turkey and Syria? Hillary seemed shocked when he said Turkey.

No...she was shocked that he brought it up...

[mrsmith]

My new Senator. What a waste.

[Yosemitest]

Not just for you, but for all.

Military Scramble Order Overseas:
First, I've got over 26 years working in military control towers, most of them as the watch supervisor/crew chief on duty.
Scrambling aircraft to respond to urgent situations normally starts at the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
The scramble order comes down through a secured phone call on a direct line.
In the attack on the U.S. embassy on Benghazi, the drone control would have been from MacDill AFB, FL, by U.S. Central Command, and would have been in direct contact, or maybe even remote control to the situation room in the White House.
Watch this 4 minute 48 second video Inside the Situation Room.
The pResident SHOULD HAVE issued to order to scramble fighters to Benghazi, to get there in minimum time.
Then he SHOULD HAVE issued a second order scrambling AC-130 gunships to respond to Benghazi, and have them stand by for more orders.

This should have been controlled by the pResident, who should have monitored and responded with guidance from his Situation Room,

staffed by men and women from the Department of Homeland Security, the intelligence community, and the military,
all of whom are committed to ensuring that the President of the United States is provided all the information and intelligence he needs to do his job.

Read

THE PRESIDENT'S CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST TERRORISTS AND NATIONS SUPPORTING THEM.

[zzeeman]

Did Rand Paul mix up Turkey and Syria? Hillary seemed shocked when he said Turkey. Perhaps she was ready with a response for a question about Syria.

There has been reporting that the arms flowed from Libya through Turkey to Syria (and elsewhere).

[Java4Jay]

Their agenda is clear...

http://www.silentconquest.com/