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2013-01-24 Home Front: WoT
Emotional Clinton Warns of Dangers of Militancy
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Charles Evans Hughes ...
 on Wednesday warned of rising militancy in the wake of the Arab Spring, in an emotional and at times heated testimony into the deadly Benghazi attack.

"Benghazi didn't happen in a vacuum," Clinton said at the start of a Senate hearing into the September 11 assault on a U.S. mission in eastern Libya.

"The Arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region," she told the Foreign Relations committee called to review the lessons learned from the attack, in which U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.

The top U.S. diplomat choked back a sob as she described having to call the families with the news that Stevens, and information manager Sean Smith, had been killed, and then watching them come home in flag-draped coffins.

Appearing at her last congressional hearings before she steps down later this month, Clinton reiterated that she took full responsibility for security deficiencies at the mission.

But showing no signs of her long period of ill-health, the top U.S. diplomat angrily defended the U.S. administration of President Barack Obama
In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed...
and ambassador Susan Rice against charges they had sought to cover-up the true events surrounding the attack.

"Nothing could be further from the truth," Clinton insisted, stressing that in the days afterwards the administration did not have "a full picture yet."

"With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or because of guys out for a walk one night and decided to go kill some Americans?" she said.

"What difference does it make?" she demanded, thumping her fist on the table as Senator Ron Johnson repeatedly asked her why the administration had falsely initially blamed the attack on protests outside the mission.

"It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator."
It makes no difference what happened as you figure out what happened so that you can prevent it from happening again. My goodness, neither she nor anyone else in Washington parses what she says.
Clinton insisted there was no greater priority than protecting the State Department's 70,000 staff in 275 posts around the world, saying she had already moved to implement the recommendations of an internal review to boost security.
Posted by Fred 2013-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 When, Oh when will she die and spare us from anymore Whiney Bitch ramblings.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-01-24 00:18||   2013-01-24 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 And she's gone and upset little Bindi, not that I blame her.
Posted by tipper 2013-01-24 01:46||   2013-01-24 01:46|| Front Page Top

#3 What difference does it make?

When our embassy was burning and people were dying, hillary, this administration did NOT go after terrorists.

They went after the First Amendment.

Now, let me make THIS clear: the First Amendment is what allows the people and the representatives of their government to "talk about this". No matter how unpleasant, unpopular, unseeming, or theratening to your political careers, it assures the people that they can "talk about this",

By going after the First Amendment, this Administration, and thus YOU by extention, no longer want to settle differences between yourselves and the people you represent by talking about it.

Thus, when (not if) it blows up in your face, there will be no more falling back on "LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS!" to avoid the deathly consequences of this intentional violation of a contractual document YOU decided to violate. That's GONE. No more hiding behind a shield you used once to protect YOUR protests, but which YOU scrapped yourselves to deny US protection for OUR protests. That's GONE.

Do NOT confuse intent with capability.
Posted by Ptah 2013-01-24 04:21||   2013-01-24 04:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Yesterday was a naseating theatrical performance which I will entitle "Lies, and Damn Lies".

I can postulate, but truthfully, I have absolutely no idea of what actually took place at Benghazi. I do know however, where that knowledge lies and who will eventually release it. It will be released when one of the those mystery people [26 I believe it was] extracted by the COS in Tripoli and eventually flown to Landstuhl rips up his or her non-disclosure statement goes rogue with a story or writes a book.

Quote of the day:

"The Republicans were a bunch of weenies"
LTC(Ret) Ralph Peters
The O'Reilly Factor, 23 Jan 2013
Posted by Besoeker 2013-01-24 06:24||   2013-01-24 06:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Above [...nauseating} sorry.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-01-24 06:26||   2013-01-24 06:26|| Front Page Top

#6 2016 will be interesting when Hillary and eye rolling Moocher run against each other for President.
Posted by tipper 2013-01-24 06:58||   2013-01-24 06:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Last time I looked, the Australian bookies had the First Linebacker at 400-1 for next Prez. Might be worth a flutter.
Posted by Grunter 2013-01-24 08:23||   2013-01-24 08:23|| Front Page Top

#8 A performance tantrum suitable for Oprah not the Senate--Crying and slamming her fists but never answering any questions. Rand Paul seemed to have the proper demeanor for the affair--his recommendation: "Fire her."
Posted by JohnQC 2013-01-24 09:50||   2013-01-24 09:50|| Front Page Top

#9 ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying! There's no crying in International Policy!
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-01-24 10:38||   2013-01-24 10:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Crying is for loosers.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-01-24 12:31||   2013-01-24 12:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Did she warn about the danger of having someone who doesn't have a clue make decisions?
Posted by ed in texas 2013-01-24 14:34||   2013-01-24 14:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Where can we get that Aussie action?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2013-01-24 14:39||   2013-01-24 14:39|| Front Page Top

#13 Dangers of militancy? Does she even remember Sept 11 or anything that happened since. How bizzare that nobody in this administration considered the lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq when they jumped into Libya with a smile and a 'we know better'. Fools and dolts the lot.
Posted by rjschwarz 2013-01-24 14:49||   2013-01-24 14:49|| Front Page Top

#14 Where can we get that Aussie action?
N.S. try here.
Posted by tipper 2013-01-24 15:24||   2013-01-24 15:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Thanks, Tipper. That's very interesting.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2013-01-24 15:29||   2013-01-24 15:29|| Front Page Top

#16 John McCain: Let’s hear from the survivors of the Benghazi attack
Republican Ariz. Sen. John McCain wants to hear directly from the survivors of the Benghazi terrorist attack, to shed light on questions he says were left unanswered by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony to the Senate foreign relations committee Wednesday morning.

McCain was asked by Breitbart News whether he thought the survivors should be asked to provide their accounts of what exactly happened before, during and after the Sept. 11, 2012 attack.

“They should certainly [do so]. If not come up to Capitol Hill, at least be identified and take their statements as to what they saw,” he said.

When asked if he was satisfied with Clinton’s answers, McCain responded, “Of course not. … If you watched the hearings, you saw me list about 10 unanswered questions.”


Posted by tipper 2013-01-24 16:21||   2013-01-24 16:21|| Front Page Top

#17 They should certainly [do so]. If not come up to Capitol Hill, at least be identified and take their statements as to what they saw," he said.

...what instructions they were given, and what they heard in the chatter of war.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-01-24 16:33||   2013-01-24 16:33|| Front Page Top

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