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.
She is triangulating and parsing words. What does “we” mean? State? CIA apparently was leading the ops in Benghazi. It doesn’t appear we will ever know what really was going on there with the MSM covering for them.
That’s it??? That’s all there is??? That’s her swan song???
All we got was the same old verse — a little bit louder a little less averse.
What a dog and pony show..It will never come out that the adminstration was running guns,and they wound up with terrorists...She will not be tarnished...She was well rehearsed...Rand Paul had the gonads to ask the question...
Yup!
You’re right about that.
Communists all, too.
Revolutionary times? Who fueled it and helped assasinate a foreign leader. Obama admin IMO caused Benghazi. It is worse than negligence
The House gets to take a swing at her this afternoon.
Demos calling in on the Republican line (acting as if they’re Repubs) on CSpan bashing Rand Paul and McCain.
Did anyone ask her why they weren’t on top of things in that region AFTER Bengazi? Why the same faction of Al Queda was allowed to pull off a hostage/terror attack near the Libyan border. Haven’t they improved their “intelligence” gathering and security?
no
Hillary’s response to Ron Johnson will come back to haunt the smartest woman in the world big time:
“What difference does it make whether it was militants or a protest out of control.”
What??? It makes a big difference. One is a terrorist attack.
She wasn’t under oath? Are you sure?
A caller just asked why there were two key questions not addressed:
Who gave Rice the talking points to claim that it was caused by a video?
And who gave the order to Stand Down.
Perhaps someone in the House will follow up.
I just sent a pile of questions for Mo Brooks to ask... probably too late, but what the heck.
Truth is Benghazi was a median point to ship weapons from rpgs to shoulder fired stuff all over the mideast. Much of it confiscated from quackdafi.
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