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.
Semper fi! I may be the grandmother of a US Marine in a few years, too.
Yeah, nothing is going to come of this. I was reminded watching Hillary today, it is going to take a lot more than a softball hearing such as this to rattle old Hillary. Remember, she’s old school and has been testifying about one thing or another going on forty years or so.
Is Menendez wrapping this questioning up? Nothing was learned here!
Yeah, nothing is going to come of this. I was reminded watching Hillary today, it is going to take a lot more than a softball hearing such as this to rattle old Hillary. Remember, she’s old school and has been testifying about one thing or another going on forty years or so.
Yeah, nothing is going to come of this. I was reminded watching Hillary today, it is going to take a lot more than a softball hearing such as this to rattle old Hillary. Remember, she’s old school and has been testifying about one thing or another going on forty years or so.
Menendez wrapping up.
Saying the takeaway is lack of funding to protect our diplomats.
What crap.
Don't think so. There were reports that Ambassador Stevens met with a Turkish diplomat just hours before the attack and that weapons were being brought into Syria from Turkey.
This hag has a laxative effect on me....
why Hillary Clinton & the State Department denied over 100 requests for security enhancements & fortifications despite hundreds of violent attacks in Libya leading up to 9/11?
Ah! God bless and keep you and your precious family.
Semper fi!
Typical Clintonian performance...
Remember the Rose Law Firm papers, etc...
she done got this DOWN!
ROTFL.
Frankly, all the obsequious Dems have made me physically ill. Many of their statements made me wonder if the long delay in this hearing was so they could all get their statements and questions approved ahead of time. Thank God for Rand Paul!
Corker making final remarks.
A complete a-hole.
Nothing about Benghazi. looking forward.
Four dead Americans, three of which gave their lives to save 37 unidentified other .americans, are completely forgotten.
Time to move on. Org.
The house is the final line of questioning. If they fail, we are on our own.
Menendez (and others of his ilk in that room) are modern day examples of why a length of rope and a sturdy lamp post were used in the past.
Now that's a ticket I would whole-heartedly support - poliically and financially.
Thanks very much for the LIVE thread, dearest kristinn!!!!
No wonder Hollywood loves the liberals, great acting.
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