Hillary Clinton Benghazi Testimony

[TheOldSchool]

Oh she will, despite her age, and all those lefties who swore McCain was to old, will all of the sudden think age is not an issue.

btw who are all those lefties who swore McCain was too old?

That was only a problem because of Palin. I say we dodged a bullet on that one.

 

[Bigfoot]

Hillary totally contradicted herself when she said "what difference does it make" and then followed it with "we need to find out why this happened".

Where I come from that's called a double talking liar.

Like she doesn't know exactly what happened. What a liar!

 

[skye]

It's a sad day when Clinton says what difference does it make.

An Ambassador and four noble Americans dying because of her incompetence.

A new low for this Administration

 

[Harry Dresden]

Repupblican Rep McCaul of Texas was spanked and corrected... http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/202446.pdf

Security Cables never went above Assitant Secretary level where the ARB (report) placed responsibility 'where the rubber hits the road'

No one in 'Secretary's Office' saw cable about security issues

"With regard to the security requests subsequent to the August 16 cable, our personnel in Libya had not submitted any additional security requests to Washington at the time of the Sept 11 attack"

FACT: August 16th cable stated security requests for Ben Ghazzi will be forthcoming ... the RSO in Ben Ghazzi submitted to Tripoli a preliminary list of proposed security recommendations on August 23rd BUT NO REQUESTS WERE SUBMITTED TO WASHINGTON BEFORE THE ATTACKS

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Goddamn I wish she'd run for Prez in 2016.....

She will. Only thing against her is her age. She'll be 69. Her health is fine, no matter what the retards say. She'll get the nomination. She might even win...

wont get my vote.....to old.....plus both parties suck.....and need to either revamp or go....

 

[Harry Dresden]

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too far out make a bet, but most smaht people think she won't

I think if her health took a turn for the worse, she might not. But there are not many others out there to stand up...

most quality politicians want nothing to do with this job anymore.....the media and each party drag the person and family through the dirt bin....who gives a shit what the person did when they were a senior in HS?....especially if it was 40 years ago....i wanna know what they are doing today....not 40 years ago....

 

[Dr Grump]

Hillary totally contradicted herself when she said "what difference does it make" and then followed it with "we need to find out why this happened".

Where I come from that's called a double talking liar.

where I come from it's called "try reading things in context"....

 

[Dr Grump]

It's a sad day when Clinton says what difference does it make.

An Ambassador and four noble Americans dying because of her incompetence.

A new low for this Administration

Are you thick or spamming?

She never said that.

And it was an ambassador and three other Americans. Get your facts straight...

 

[skye]

It's a sad day when Clinton says what difference does it make.

An Ambassador and four noble Americans dying because of her incompetence.

A new low for this Administration

Are you thick or spamming?

She never said that.

And it was an ambassador and three other Americans. Get your facts straight...

Fuck off and please don't quote me anymore. I have nothing to say to you.

Thank you

 

[LeftofLeft]

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got testy on Capitol Hill Wednesday in response to a query from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who called into question her department's accounting of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya.

Facing expected scrutiny from Republicans during her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton appeared to take exception to Johnson's pointed inquiry into the State Department's initial report that the attack had been mounted spontaneously as a reaction to an anti-Islam YouTube video.

"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans," Clinton responded, raising her voice at Johnson, who continued to interrupt her. "Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk last night who decided to kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator."
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Clinton continued, defending the State Department's efforts in the wake of the assault. "Honestly, I will do my best to answer your questions about this, but the fact is people were trying their best in real time to get to the best information," she said.

Earlier in the hearing, Clinton spoke about the aftermath of the attack, her voice cracking as she recalled meeting the families of the four Americans killed, including that of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

More: Hillary Clinton, Ron Johnson Engage In Heated Exchange At Benghazi Hearing (VIDEO)

Finally.

Somebody talking sense.

The fact is, cables were received by the State Department requesting more security for Benghazi and Hilary's State Department did not, would not, could not, act on the request for more security. ANY way you look at it, SHE FAILED.

 

[Staidhup]

You post this after Bush and 9/11.

Interesting.

Apples and Oranges, and you are aware that the cell was in place long before W was sworn into office? Under what context would the FBI have in deterring the activities of these people, second, the CIA is prohibited from operating and spying, employing counter intelligence measures, and gathering information within the US? The fact remains loosely gathered non substantiated speculation is one thing, intelligence and reality is another. I will grant you this, the dumbing down of the CIA and FBI activities within our boarders was a very costly outcome of Watergate.

Richard A. Clarke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In his memoir, "Against All Enemies", Clarke wrote that when he first briefed Rice on Al-Qaeda, in a January 2001 meeting, "her facial expression gave me the impression she had never heard the term before." He also stated that Rice made a decision that the position of National Coordinator for Counterterrorism should be downgraded. By demoting the office, the Administration sent a signal through the national security bureaucracy about the salience they assigned to terrorism. No longer would Clarke's memos go to the President; instead they had to pass though a chain of command of National Security Advisor Rice and her deputy Stephen Hadley, who bounced every one of them back.

Within a week of the inauguration, I wrote to Rice and Hadley asking 'urgently' for a Principals, or Cabinet-level, meeting to review the imminent Al-Qaeda threat. Rice told me that the Principals Committee, which had been the first venue for terrorism policy discussions in the Clinton administration, would not address the issue until it had been 'framed' by the Deputies.[10]

At the first Deputies Committee meeting on Terrorism held in April 2001, Clarke strongly suggested that the U.S. put pressure on both the Taliban and Al-Qaeda by arming the Northern Alliance and other groups in Afghanistan. Simultaneously, that they target bin Laden and his leadership by reinitiating flights of the MQ-1 Predators. To which Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz responded, "Well, I just don't understand why we are beginning by talking about this one man bin Laden." Clarke replied that he was talking about bin Laden and his network because it posed "an immediate and serious threat to the United States." According to Clarke, Wolfowitz turned to him and said, "You give bin Laden too much credit. He could not do all these things like the 1993 attack on New York, not without a state sponsor. Just because FBI and CIA have failed to find the linkages does not mean they don't exist."[10]

Clarke wrote in Against All Enemies that in the summer of 2001, the intelligence community was convinced of an imminent attack by al Qaeda, but could not get the attention of the highest levels of the Bush administration, most famously writing that Director of the Central Intelligence Agency George Tenet was running around with his "hair on fire".[10]

At a July 5, 2001, White House gathering of the FAA, the Coast Guard, the FBI, Secret Service and INS, Clarke stated that "something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon." Donald Kerrick, a three-star general who was a deputy National Security Advisor in the late Clinton administration and stayed on into the Bush administration, wrote Hadley a classified two-page memo stating that the NSA needed to "pay attention to Al-Qaida and counterterrorism" and that the U.S. would be "struck again."

The validity of Mr. Clark's allegations and supposition that the attack was going to be made in the US is questionable, however, the previous administration felt that it did not need the attention that he felt it required which he seems to omit, which considering he worked for the previous administration was interesting. But let us not dwell on Mr Clarke, and recognize that terrorism is a serious subject, and that post 9-11 we should have learned our lesson.
There is no excuse, regardless of political affiliation, for the failure of the government to neglect its responsibility to address the threat of terrorism, furthermore for the government to attempt to cover up an act of terrorism is inexcusable.

 

[Lakhota]

GOP Rep: I 'Absolutely' Voted To Cut Funding For Embassy Security | ThinkProgress

Jason Chaffetz Admits House GOP Cut Funding For Embassy Security: 'You Have To Prioritize Things'

Libya attack: Congressmen casting blame voted to cut diplomatic security budget - CSMonitor.com

GOP, Paul Ryan cut half a billion dollars from embassy security

Hillary Clinton: Budget Cuts Undermine Diplomatic Security

 

[hortysir]

GOP Rep: I 'Absolutely' Voted To Cut Funding For Embassy Security | ThinkProgress

Jason Chaffetz Admits House GOP Cut Funding For Embassy Security: 'You Have To Prioritize Things'

Libya attack: Congressmen casting blame voted to cut diplomatic security budget - CSMonitor.com

GOP, Paul Ryan cut half a billion dollars from embassy security

Hillary Clinton: Budget Cuts Undermine Diplomatic Security

Perfect.

Let's blame spending cuts, so we won't have to do *THAT* ever again!

 

[Lakhota]

GOP Rep: I 'Absolutely' Voted To Cut Funding For Embassy Security | ThinkProgress

Jason Chaffetz Admits House GOP Cut Funding For Embassy Security: 'You Have To Prioritize Things'

Libya attack: Congressmen casting blame voted to cut diplomatic security budget - CSMonitor.com

GOP, Paul Ryan cut half a billion dollars from embassy security

Hillary Clinton: Budget Cuts Undermine Diplomatic Security

Perfect.

Let's blame spending cuts, so we won't have to do *THAT* ever again!

Are you saying embassy security spending cuts were not a factor?

 

[tinydancer]

GOP Rep: I 'Absolutely' Voted To Cut Funding For Embassy Security | ThinkProgress

Jason Chaffetz Admits House GOP Cut Funding For Embassy Security: 'You Have To Prioritize Things'

Libya attack: Congressmen casting blame voted to cut diplomatic security budget - CSMonitor.com

GOP, Paul Ryan cut half a billion dollars from embassy security

Hillary Clinton: Budget Cuts Undermine Diplomatic Security

Maybe if she hadn't been out partying and dancing in clubs all over the planet, The Secretary of State could have maybe considered doing her job and requiring that personnel from very secure Embassies could have been transferred to Libya.

From Embassies in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Belgium from so many places.

Clinton was derelict in her duties. She should be charged with involuntary manslaughter. The deaths of these men and their blood they shed are on her hands.

 

[Rinata]

you can always hope. You all have nobody that can beat her, you never did.

If she wants the presidency, it's hers.

who wants a president who falls for no reason then has back door trots and then a concussion. She unstable and has health issues

pretzel chokes, fells president bush

*

 

[Rinata]

She is simply NOT Presidential material...this will haunt her.

That is so ridiculous!!! Not presidential material?? Because she got sick and fainted?? I think you're just plain crazy. The president is not some super human being. Our president is always just flesh and blood just like us. They eat, sleep, have sex, get sick, and throw up!!! To name just a few things.

You are going to have to do better than that. Damn!!!

 

[chesswarsnow]

Sorry bout that,


1. That bitch didn't stand up and resign, and accept the responsibility?
2. That *BITCH*!!!!!!!
3. She would of gained huge political points, with the democrats, they would love her more.


Regards,
SirJamesofTexas

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

"At no time did I have a live feed of the attack."

Republican Rep McCaul of Texas was spanked and corrected... http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/202446.pdf

Security Cables never went above Assistant Secretary level where the ARB (report) placed responsibility 'where the rubber hits the road'

No one in 'Secretary's Office' saw cable about security issues

"With regard to the security requests subsequent to the August 16 cable, our personnel in Libya had not submitted any additional security requests to Washington at the time of the Sept 11 attack"

FACT: August 16th cable stated security requests for Ben Ghazzi will be forthcoming ... the RSO in Ben Ghazzi submitted to Tripoli a preliminary list of proposed security recommendations on August 23rd BUT NO REQUESTS WERE SUBMITTED TO WASHINGTON BEFORE THE ATTACKS

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"At no time did I have a live feed of the attack."

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Put it all together

"What difference, at this point, does it make?" What was Secretary Clinton referring to?

“With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. If it was because of a protest or if it was because guys out for a walk decided to go kill some Americans. What difference at this point does it make?

“It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. Now, honestly, I will do my best to answer my questions about this but the fact is that people were trying in real time to get the best information … but you know, to be clear, it is from my perspective, less important today looking backward as to why these militants decided to do it, as to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we’ll figure out what was going on in the meantime.”



http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/202446.pdf

For many years the State Department has been engaged in a struggle to obtain the resources necessary to carry out its work, with varying degrees of success. This has brought about a deep sense of the importance of husbanding resources to meet the highest priorities, laudable in the extreme in any government department. But it has also had the effect of conditioning a few State Department managers to favor restricting the use of resources as a general orientation. There is no easy way to cut through this Gordian knot, all the more so as budgetary austerity looms large ahead. At the same time, it is imperative for the State Department to be mission-driven, rather than resource-constrained – particularly when being present in increasingly risky areas of the world is integral to U.S. national security. The recommendations in this report attempt to grapple with these issues and err on the side of increased attention to prioritization and to fuller support for people and facilities engaged in working in high risk, high threat areas. The solution requires a more serious and sustained commitment from Congress to support State Department needs, which, in total, constitute a small percentage both of the full national budget and that spent for national security. One overall conclusion in this report is that Congress must do its part to meet this challenge and provide necessary resources to the State Department to address security risks and meet mission imperatives.

Mindful of these considerations, the ARB has examined the terrorist attacks in Benghazi...

The ARB