Eagle-eyed viewers to this week’s House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might’ve recognized a familiar face just behind the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate.
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Feinstein said Clinton’s performance in the House Select Committee on Benghazi Thursday left no doubt about her ability to do the job she’s seeking.
In her testimony Thursday, Clinton deflected the charge that her decisions regarding Benghazi were politically motivated.
Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill.: “I’m not done with my question”.
“I have heard one dismissive thing after another”. Roskam asked, obviously losing patience. “They are additional requests for security for the compound”, said Brooks. “We don’t have any records that she really did ever talk with Chris stevens after she swore him in…” As Clinton rose to leave the hearing room, she chatted with members of Congress who had been sitting behind her. And that’s when NPR’s microphone picked up this sound of Clinton describing the secret to her stamina. He also discussed “acts of terror” in a general way, but wouldn’t call the violence that killed four Americans terrorism because, he said, “it’s too early to know exactly how this came about”.
The content of those emails, as well as the use of the personal server, were brought up numerous times during the 11-hour Benghazi hearings.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Benghazi panel.
In fact, the hearing was a political mud pit even before Clinton’s testimony began, as NPR’s Tamara Keith reported.
“Can you tell us who at the State Department would have informed her aides that 90 to 95 percent had been captured in State Department systems?” a reporter asked. Hillary could only respond that security requests were the purview of the “security professionals” below her. She had no answer as to why the security professionals did not want to beef up security when other countries were bailing out of Benghazi.
“If he had raised it with me”, she told Republican Chairman Trey Gowdy, according to the New York Times, “I would be here telling you he had”.
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“You have to think that the only explanation for them coming up with this completely false narrative, that they all knew was false, was that it was a political calculation”. The reaction by congressional Democrats and others was not to personally blame President Ronald Reagan, but to work together to prevent another tragedy.
