“I think it’s pretty clear it’s time to move on”, she said during a campaign stop. Kennedy served as assistant secretary of state for management – a post he now holds.
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This could have an effect on the general election in a way that Benghazi never could, because, while Republicans have indeed politicized the email issue, Clinton has always seemed much more vulnerable on this subject, politically speaking, over the past year.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Clinton’s actions as secretary of state were “disqualifying”.
“Is Hillary Clinton’s leadership morally reprehensible?” he was asked at the press conference.
It is the largest pro-Trump ad buy from an outside group during the campaign so far. The report says Mrs. Clinton gave him the job of opening a permanent consulate there and was coming out in October to review his progress.
Gowdy said he was not prepared to pass judgment on Clinton, adding that opinions about her do not appear in the actual report.
It’s the faraway city that seems to send partisans here at home off the rails – Benghazi, Libya scene of the 2012 murders of two USA diplomats, including our ambassador.
The report faulted the military for not providing the required deployment for the USA compound in Benghazi, State Department officials and the Central Intelligence Agency for failing to properly evaluate the threat to U.S. personnel on the ground, and the Pentagon for not being in position to aid the Americans under siege.
Two of the majority members who were outspokenly critical of the administration during committee hearings, Reps. All had been reached by previous probes.
The report also accused the White House of stonewalling the investigation, something aides to Obama have denied.
Republican insistence that the investigation was not politically motivated was undermined past year when House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., suggested that the House committee could take credit for Clinton’s then-slumping poll numbers. According to a website maintained by committee Democrats, the investigation cost more than $7.1 million.
As the dueling reports were released, the State Department said, “The essential facts surrounding the 2012 attacks in Benghazi have been known for some time”, including information from the other reviews of the incident that occurred two months before the 2012 presidential election in which Obama won a second four-year term.
The Committee says it compiled the report by interviewing more than 80 witnesses who had never before been questioned by Congress, and obtaining more than 75,000 pages of new documents. “Certainly the State Department is underbudgeted”, Anne Stevens told The New Yorker”.
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Republicans read from emails released from the tranche made public by the state department after it was discovered that she was using a private account to conduct official business, trying to develop a narrative that she was either dismissive of or ignorant of the security concerns being raised by the ambassador.
