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Hillary Clinton storms Capitol Hill and delivers what can fairly be called a beat down......teeth_smile
salonpas 1418 reads
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Followme methinks this is the last time we hear of Benghazzi.

On Wednesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton finally had her chance to respond to critics, and the outgoing secretary of state served up a potent brew of righteous outrage.

She began her appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with restraint, and even remorse. She choked up as she described receiving flag-draped caskets at Andrews Air Force Base and hugging relatives of those killed.

But her anger boiled over when rookie Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) demanded to know why she and her aides didn’t immediately call those evacuated from Benghazi to find out whether a protest had preceded the attack. Clinton replied that she didn’t want to interfere with the FBI’s investigation — which is almost certainly what Republicans would have accused her of doing.

“That’s a good excuse,” Johnson said, scornfully.

“Well, no, it’s a fact,” Clinton retorted, growing irritated. Waving her index finger, she pointed out that much of what happened in Libya on Sept. 11 remains unknown.

“No, no, no, no,” Johnson rejoined. “We were misled that there were supposedly protests and then something sprang out of that, an assault . . . and the American people could have known that within days.”

Clinton raised her voice. “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans,” she shouted at the lawmaker. Waving her arms and then pounding the witness table with her fist, she continued: “Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Johnson stopped interrupting as Clinton continued. “It is, from my perspective, less important today looking backward as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice,” she said.

Johnson didn’t attempt a rebuttal. “Okay, thank you, Madam Secretary.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-in-benghazi-hearings-hillary-clinton-storms-capitol-hill/2013/01/23/a27e571e-65ac-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_story.html

goodtimesaddict188 reads

As a republican I have issues with Hillary, but I for one believe this Benghazi thing is just GOP grandstanding (see all the embassy attacks under W).  I love how she handled it, and I loved how she put that moron in his place.  Good job.

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JeffEng16151 reads

http://thinkprogress.org/security/issue/

The GOP march to wreck the country and their party continues to be a vibrant clusterfuck.

"Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) issued a statement on Wednesday slamming House Republicans for removing an authorization for increasing embassy security funding from an emergency disaster relief bill.

Released on the same day as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony before Congress on the Benghazi attack, Leahy doesn’t hold back in his scorn for the House. “Since the Republican takeover of the House, House Republicans have proposed deep cuts for U.S. embassy operations and programs across the board, including for security,” Leahy said in his statement. “Now they have topped even that record of recklessness”:

“In preventing this transfer of unused funds appropriated earlier for Iraq – funds already appropriated and approved by Congress – [House Republicans] have hobbled the work that everyone agrees is needed to harden our embassy security efforts. [...] Many of our diplomats serve in dangerous places by necessity. We need to protect them as best we can, without turning our embassies into impenetrable fortresses that make it impossible for them to do their jobs.

“For Republicans to blame the Administration for failing to protect our diplomats, without acknowledging their own efforts to slash resources for embassy security, is pure, distilled hypocrisy.”

Secretary Clinton previously announced her intention to request the ability to transfer funds at the release of the Accountability Review Board’s findings in December. The Senate passed a bill approving $60 billion worth of funding to clean up from Superstorm Sandy in late December, to which Leahy attached an amendment authorizing the transfer from unused Iraq and Afghanistan funding to allow for increases in embassy security. Since then, the House has taken the lead in drafting the relief bills, each time leaving out Leahy’s provision.

Clinton repeated her call several times during her testimony before both houses of Congress on Wednesday, noting that the House had yet to act. House Republicans have still been reluctant to provide her request, despite continuing to attack the Obama administration’s commitment to security. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) this morning on CNN made clear that he believes that security failures in Benghazi were “not about the budget.” Likewise, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) — a lead provocateur on Benghazi — once proudly declared that he “absolutely” cut funding to the State Department’s Diplomatic Security."




-- Modified on 1/24/2013 7:01:30 AM

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