‘Madam Secretary, You Let the Consulate Become a Death Trap’
On the House side, a second-term member pitched perhaps the harshest lobs at Clinton in a hearing of softballs.
The American people, Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) said, are “frustrated when they see comments from you this morning when you said, ‘What difference at this point does it make?’ I’ll tell you what difference it makes. It makes a difference when Americans think they were misled about something for political reasons.”
“Madam Secretary, you let the consulate become a death trap. And that’s national security malpractice,” Duncan said. “You said you take responsibility. What does responsibility mean, Madam Secretary? You’re still in your job, and there are four people at the Department of State that have culpability in this that are still in their jobs.”
“Let me say that we’ve come here and made a very open, transparent presentation. I did not have to declassify the ARB,” Clinton said of the Accountability Review Board report. “I could have joined 18 of the other ARBs of both Democratic and Republican administrations, kept it classified and then, you know, just said goodbye. That’s not who I am. That’s not what I do.”
“The reason we have Accountability Review Boards is so that we take out of politics, we take out of emotion what happened and we try to get to the truth,” she added.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), chairman of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, said no members “should at all apologize for trying to get to the nitty-gritty.”
“As you were dealing with the crisis as it went on, did you think, or act on the basis that this was a film protest gone out of control? And when you briefed the president, did you tell him that? Or did you tell him, which Admiral Mullen suggests you knew by then, that this was a well planned and executed terrorist attack? Which was the president told?” Rohrabacher asked Clinton.
“Well first of all, I said the very next morning that it was an attack by heavily armed militants,” Clinton responded. “The president said that morning it was an act of terror. At the same time, however, I was dealing with protests against our facilities that were clearly connected to that video.”
“When you say that we enraged the Islamic terrorists, that means we’re at fault, they’re not at fault. And then to look and see that the only people that I know are in jail right now is the filmmaker. Isn’t this a little disconcerting?” Rohrabacher continued.
“The very next day I called it an attack by heavily armed militants on our compound. I think there is still, however, questions about exactly what caused it, who the attackers were. The ARB, after months of research, said the picture is still very complicated,” Clinton said.
At today’s White House press briefing, spokesman Jay Carney happily sprinted with Clinton’s talking points.
“Whatever was said, based on information provided by the intelligence community on a series of Sunday shows, bears no relevance on the ultimate questions of what happened in Benghazi, who was responsible and what we must do to ensure that it never happens again and that we bring to justice those who killed our diplomats and other Americans,” Carney said to kick off the briefing. “So that is clearly a point that we have been making for a long time and there has been an obvious political obsession over a series of talking points that, again, bears no relevance on the essential issues here as I just innumerate.”
Why wasn’t Clinton on those Sunday shows after the attack instead of UN Ambassador Susan Rice?
“I have to confess here in public, going on the Sunday shows is not my favorite thing to do,” Clinton said at the House hearing. “There are other things I’d prefer to do on Sunday mornings.”
Some lawmakers left as discouraged as before the hearings, lamenting that truth from the administration was still elusive and the solutions were ones they didn’t hear in the hours of testimony and Q&A.
“With growing instability in the Middle East, Northern Africa, and around the world, one clear fact remains: The president’s foreign policies are failing and placing a very real danger on our national security,” said Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.).
“I really do think that we have missed the boat on Benghazi because we’ve been talking about whether or not it had something to do with a film afterwards,” said Paul.
“I think that we need to have a military commander. We need the Department of Defense in charge of security for embassies in a war zone. And nobody has recommended that and I think that’s where the ultimate failure is,” the senator added. “…What we do forward on security for Libya or for other war-torn countries, I don’t think we can treat them like the embassy in Paris. And I still don’t think that realization has sunk in at the State Department. I’m fearful this tragedy could be reproduced or could happen again.”
When did Hillary Clinton suddenly need glasses half an inch thick? Why wasn’t she wearing them before?
Since you asked…google college photos of Hillary and you will see her with thick glasses… through BJClinton’s first term as Governor of Arkansas.
She was criticized for not embracing the role of First Lady of Arkansas, so after Bill was defeated she had a makeover that included contact lenses and bleached blonde hair. Willie ran again with his new & improved spouse and won the election.
OK (and many thanks for that explanation), but why did the thick glasses come back?
Not to be ungenerous to Mrs. Clinton but….Age?
A prop. Don’t think Hillary wasn’t prepped on appearance and demeanor prior to the hearings. What to wear, when to be outraged, when to tear up. She’s a lawyer after all. She had a career of prepping witnesses and clients, she knows the routine.
Well she came with the complete package, lies + disguise and phony shows of emotion. Her one true emotion is anger, mainly over her failure to con her way to the Presidency.
Hillary’s new eyeglass frames IS an interesting clue to an obviously coached make-over for Benghazi Day.
Same eyeglass frames that NCIS’s forensic scientist Abby was forced to wear when she had to go testify in court. The idea was to make her look serious.
I expect Hillary would have preferred Lindberg’s Air Titanium frames, which are unbelievably lightweight for daily use. All I wear since 1999.
But, Karl Rove also wears them, so I guess Hillary has to make do with hopefully fake tortoise shell.
Hope to find out who her acting coach is. The teary-eyed bit was pure acting, unlike her NH moment in 2008, which was real.
I read there was a C-130 gunship on station, and the SEALS had a lazer targeting the moon god worshipers mortor tube. Did I miss the question of the C-130, and who stood it down?
The hearing seamed mre like a show to me. Perhaps, the questions were pre-arranged.
That was the story, yeah. What backs that up is that there was the (former) SEAL, who was actively designating targets. As I understand it, you can’t do this unless you’re already synched with a receiving platform – e,g, an orbiting A-130.
She’s wearing glasses because they give her that air of authority, intelligence and just plain gravitas.
Yeah, that plus she gets to be the kindly grandma/ innocent nerd gitting picked on by the hooligans…
Bullies dont wear glasses, they PICK on the ones who do, right?
Her glasses are a prop that appear when needed to support the narrative
I wish the questions were better arranged. I think the GOP wasted a lot of time by not coming to the point of what we wanted to learn, and let Hilliary know, that we are now aware she and Obama and Rice are nothing but a pack of liars. Senator Ron Johnson finally did it and I loved the moment and her outburst. She is learning today, no doubt, just what a difference it does make to us.
“…At the same time, however, I was dealing with protests against our facilities that were clearly connected to that video.”
Hello.
That (Egypt) also turns out not to have been the case, does it not?
Didn’t Hildabeast just put her foot in it, AGAIN?
“Whether because of a protest, or whether because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they’d 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.”
Ummm . . .
If your job is to figure out what happened and prevent it from happening again, then it makes a great deal of difference whether it was because of a protest, or a random spree killing, or a carefully planned out terrorist attack.
Further, if you are incapable of identifying the cause with all the information you had available while it was occurring, not to mention within the first 24 hours, then it speaks a great deal as to whether or not you are competent enough to figure out what happened and prevent it from happening again, particularly since you were so incompetent as to let it happen in the first place.
She may be a complete idiot to not understand that;
She may think the Senators are complete idiots to not understand that;
(and they may well be since none of them were willing to call her on it)
She may think the American people are complete idiots to buy it;
I’m not.
And I want her and the Congresscritters that let her get away with that nonsense to answer for their failures.
Re. “And I want her and the Congresscritters that let her get away with that nonsense to answer for their failures.”
I want too. HOW? Possible disaster they all lead us to will wash them away, but I do not want to find me and mine in the middle of it. So, again, before it is too late, how?
With all due respect, the ones who should be enraged is our congress and the American people. She and Obama owe us a complete explanation considering a live feed was going on at the WH and the fire fight went on for several hours with former navy seals askig for backup and being told to stand down more than once. That is most certainly horrible coming from our secretary of state and yes, she should have known what was going on. Her feigned anger does not impress anyone with half a brain. There are four Americans dead because of this and the truth needs to be put forth. Disgusting was all I could say especially when a Mr. Sherman from California applauded her actions and her abilities, say what. These people are certainly not patriots. And, did you hear her say the most important thing now is syber security and how they want to address that. That means they will black out things on the internet they do not want there and will questions anyone that writes a comment that is not pleasing to the state. Say hello to the New Amerika.
Figure out what happened and correct it? Sorry, that sounds like an excuse for shifting the blame for the loss of four Americans, off of you. Hillary, your department put its personnel in a hazardous environment, and despite repeated requests for better security, you disregarded those requests. That’s what happened, and its inexcusable. And your lack of judgement qualifies you to be President, how?
The only way to ‘correct’ this situation is Romanian term limits.
As in Nicolae Ceaușescu’s?
The most revealing thing that we all should notice when re-viewing her video clips is that enormous quivering chip on her shoulder throughout her very defensive-offense. Her visible anger was her frustration with the realization that she was changing no one’s mind. There’s simply nothing that she can say, ever again, that will have any credibility.
The horror is that her successor is likely to be that mercurial fraud who threw his medals at the steps of our…remember…our….Capitol building.
It’s going to take our Nation many years to recover from all of this politically correct horsh*t amplified by these “affirmative action” nouveau arrivistes in the name of “inclusiveness” and “diversification” such as Hillary and this chameleon B. Hussein Obama.
What a disastrous political/social experiment.
One small correction. The DisHonorable John Kerry is that mercurial fraud who threw
hisother Vet’s medals at the steps of our Capitol Building.Of course they were someone Else’s medals…
Kerry needed the DRAMA of the act for himself, but since his fraudulently Obtained “medals” are such a large part of his alleged “credibility”, do you really think a narcissist like him would ever actually, physically, throw them AWAY?
Dear sir, they are encased somewhere in appropriate opulence, a heroic display, reflective of stature the Heinz Industrial Fortune represents, dont you know.
Thank you, Charlie. This is the first comment (I’ll follow up with the rest) that makes sense and hits the nail on the head. I found myself as frustrated and depressed by the previous comments that ignore the most important issue and get into prattle about Hillary’s glasses. Has the PJ readership regressed to the level of “The View” with the nattering nitwits?
The only way to deal with someone like HC is on a superficial level because there is nothing else to her – she is just opportunism and artifice. The most repulsive moment I can recall seeing at a political convention was in ’92 when Clinton and Gore accepted their party’s nomination and – amid an avalanche of red white and blue balloons – Hillary and Tipper faced one another, joined hands and jumped up and down like thirteen-year-olds at a pep rally. The sight of two plump middle-aged women behaving like that was enough to enduce a shiver of revulsion. Previously HC had given an interview on one of the networks describing life in the Governor’s Mansion in which she lifted a scene from The Big Chill – “oh, we and our friends just hang out in the kitchen goofing around, cooking, dancing – you know . . .” There is absolutely nothing to the woman that is genuine, something she shares with most others of her political ilk.
The reason she lost the nomination to Obama is because he is even more opportunistic and artificial than she is – and he’s better at it. Not because he has a better acting coach, but because he actually BELIEVES the BS!
If its their job to figure it out, why, after four months haven’t they done so? Also, I agree with Rand Paul. If any of us had a family member over there, we’d want the State Dept. to read the emails requesting help and respond. Would you want to be left in a place like Benghazi without adequate security? Especially after you had been asking for more? Especially after they took some away in August?
And why, after four months, have we never heard from one survivor at the CIA compound? Transparency, what transparency?
All I heard was a bunch of lies from Clinton. First of all other countries knew the threat and were and had already pulled out their ambassadors from the threat of Benghazi and other countries. They were aware of the potential of violence against them, so how in the world does she think that we should buy that she knew nothing of repeated requests concerning the security there.
I think Rand Paul’s question about her knowledge of gun trafficking out of Libya to Turkey will come back to bite her in the butt. She said “Turkey really, no one has ever asked me that question before.” Of course she said she had no knowledge of gun trafficking in Libya, just like Holder.
The filmmaker rots
Bloody Hands Hillary trots
It takes an enormous amount of talent and experience to manage a huge organization involved with rapidly changing events. One vital talent is to make sure that life and death issues rise in the bureaucracy to the top. It is common that self serving filters exist, in every organization. However it is also common among failed leaders to let it be known that bad news must never hit my desk. Hitler is an example. It allows a calm career until disaster hits, and the leader is the last to know that the ship has sunk. It takes courage, candor, and integrity to be a big boss. Anyone who has spent a career is a large organization knows this.
It is January, and we just were told that the security disaster occurring in war torn Libya was not even reported to her. We know that the responsible employees who were “fired”, were simply reassigned to other desks. If she does not know what difference does it make between the voters learning the truth weeks before a close election or the week after the swearing in ceremony, she is ignorant of politics, or dissembling, or incompetent.
Senator Paul is correct. The job was too big for Hillary Clinton. Her organization failed miserably at Benghazi, and it is her fault. And others. Bad bosses can fill up a cemetery.
“If she does not know “what difference does it make” between the voters learning the truth weeks before a close election or the week after the swearing in ceremony, she is ignorant of politics, or dissembling, or incompetent”
On the contrary, she was NOT Ignorant of the politics, she was MASTERFUL of them.
If The Truth WERE known, it could have cost the Democrats the election.
So, she lied. She told Rice to lie. And they are STILL selling the lie today…
Because she understands the Politics…that the majority of her “constituents” are more concerned about a N.C.F.W (no class fat cow?) named “Kardshian” or perhaps that other repulsive woman with AK-47 Nipples (who was merely copying the ORIGINAL repulsive pop-blonde with gun-porn?) .
For these people, “real news” is beyond their attention span/intellectual abilities to digest.
The rest are her co-conspirators in the media who needed to deflect the issue for only a short while.
They did, and they won.
Incompetent?
As a Secretary of State, yes of course.
As a Political Leftist?
She is masterful at beating us, no matter HOW many times the mask is torn.
Is this the same woman who said she arrived under sniper fire in Bosnia?
Clinton is as bad if not worse than Obama.
Indeed.
Funny you should mention Hillary Clinton and the Balkans.
Enjoyed the article, thanks for the link.
We also must not forget all the mysterious deaths that have happened since the Clintons entered the White House. The Clintons are very creepy people, as are the Obamas.
Democrats are not “creepy”, they are EVIL…
Evil may seem creepy to us, but thats not what it is.
Hillary made the trap
The filmmaker got the slap
Concussion? She looks like she got also a face lift for her presidential run. The six weeks out of sight is what you’d need to recover from that.
Facelift ?
Yes, that was my first thought when I saw her photo on Drudge, now here….
And yeah, the ladies are pretty good about spotting that stuff…
This isn’t over by a long shot – IF the feckless GOP can muster up some cahones.
The questions not asked are what I’m most curious about. Why did the CIA have operations in Benghazi? What the hell was Stevens doing there? He wasn’t stationed there – just ‘visiting’ I suppose? This has all the marks of a CIA operation that State got in the way of – by inconveniently getting a few people killed.
Right on! Obama and his puppets (Hillary being one) get away with murder because the Republicans don’t jump on them. When she said, “I take full responsibility,” if I’d been on the panel I would have said, “In that case, we’ll arrest you right now.”
Agree!
I just read this on yahoo.com:
http://news.yahoo.com/whats-behind-gops-fixation-benghazi-224512344.html
Did John McCain really say “we still don’t have the basic information”? This is what Obama & Clinton have been saying all along “we have to find out what happened.”
Well, we know what happened. There was another terrorist attack on September 11, and 4 Americans are dead. Why are republicans echoing this? Let the dems keep saying “we have to find out what happened,” “we have to find out who did this and bring them to justice.” And I think the guy who made that movie is still in jail.
When she was questioned on the cables asking for help, and why it took so long to find out it wasn’t the movie, she went into her tirade about “why does it matter?” Why isn’t anyone saying it matters, because we are going to be attacked again. And then what?
What a day.
Hillary made a very poor Secretary of State, but she would make an excellent Pyromaniac.
The thing that is most angering to conservatives is that nobody will ask Hitlery the questions. Those questions that put her on the spot. Possibly because she has operatives who have all the dirt on EVERYONE. That’s a list that makes Nixon’s list look like a yellow sticky note.
Regardless, the republicans will fade and shrink away. The schmooz-fest today with the empty gratuities to her were nauseating.
She demeans the position. She ridicules it the way she ridicules everything about the United States. She makes a little prep-school game out of everything and when she’s caught dead-to-rights, she cries and yells and goes on the offensive to yell at her questioners.
It’s a well-polished, manipulative act and the media will, once again, lambaste the republicans for “being mean” which is actually what little junior high school girls say to their parents when they are being punished for misbehaving. It is remarkably effective against the spineless and weak-of-conviction.
As predicted, she’s winning the contest and the media is all too willing to spin til the thing explodes. They ignore their obligation of due-diligence and prefer to side with the ideology of protecting the socialists.
Rome had nothing on us. The socialists have mastered the art of jerking everybody off.
“What difference at this point does it make?” The Clinton’s and their parsing – there they go again…
Well, at this point, it doesn’t make a difference does it? You’re right Hillary – but at another point, e.g., prior to the election, e.g., during a presidential debate, it might have made a significant difference. Because it would have exposed the lies or incompetence of you and the administration you serve. But you rode out the storm and rightly counted on the incompetence and fecklessness of your congressional adversaries.
Speaking of my party’s esteemed leaders, am I the only one that is absolutely steaming to have to hear news commentary tonight on how congressmen simply are unable to come in to such hearings prepared with straightforward questions and demand answers? How many blogs have appeared on PJMedia outlining the main, plain and obvious questions that need to be answered? If my leaders on the Hill are are not up to the task of such an important moment are they any more competent at their responsibilities than Hillary?
So everyone accepts their responsibility today? Great – what’s that get?
“What difference at this point does it make?” The Clinton’s and their parsing – there they go again…
Well, at this point, it doesn’t make a difference does it? You’re right Hillary – but at another point, e.g., prior to the election, e.g., during a presidential debate, it might have made a significant difference. Because it would have exposed the lies or incompetence of you and the administration you serve. But you rode out the storm and rightly counted on the incompetence and fecklessness of your congressional adversaries.
Speaking of my party’s esteemed leaders, am I the only one that is absolutely steaming to have to hear news commentary tonight on how congressmen simply are unable to come in to such hearings prepared with straightforward questions and demand answers? How many blogs have appeared on PJMedia outlining the main, plain and obvious questions that need to be answered? If my leaders on the Hill are are not up to the task of such an important moment are they any more competent at their responsibilities than Hillary?
So everyone accepts their responsibility today? Great – what’s that get?
Hillary was in good company … it’s called taking care of their own. No tough questions, no demand for answers and certainly a somehow well prepared Hillary who was ready to parse and act threatening at the drop of a hat. “How dare you question me you pee-ons; I’m part of the DC elite and your careers will end tommorrow if you push it with me.” I’ve never seen such a bunch of wimps in so called “leadership” positions; they got pussy-whipped … Justice was not served.
“Mr. Bush, you allowed downtown Manhattan become a death trap”. “Mr. Reagan, you let the Beirut barracks become a death trap”. At least Bush and Reagan were held accountable. Weren’t they?
And don’t forget, Mr. Roosevelt, you let Pearl Harbor become a death trap. Mr Kennedy and Mr. Johnson, you let Vietnam become a death trap, Mr. Carter you let our Iranian embassy become a death trap, Mr. Clinton you let our WTC and the Khobar Towers become a death trap, Mr. Obama, you let our Ft. Hood become a death trap.
Brutus has the most selective memory on record of any of the feckless progs that post here.
And the Brutus M.O. is always to justify a mistake with another mistake. Therefore, Mrs. Clinton is perfectly within her rights to be perfectly incompetent without question.
Yep, Carter let the Iranian Embassy become a death trap, Roosevelt let Pearl Harbor become a death trap, Wilson let Sarajevo become a death trap, Bush encouraged Iraq to become a death trap, etc. etc. And your point is what? That Wilson, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Bush, Roosevelt were pilloried? No, they were not So what is different? Oh yeah, the socialist in the White House…
Uh uh. Hillary 2016. The folks who elected Obama do not give a crap about this. Nor are they concerned with such outdated concepts as honesty, fidelity, morality, hard work, family, country or God. That’s all irrelevant. We’re into the ‘All My Children’s Mamas’ age; The rise of the Gimmees; You got, I want it. New Years Eve with Kathy Gifford is the new standard of admirable behaviour, continuing down the path blazed Bubba. Nope, It’s definitely Hillary’s moment; count on it.
Rand Paul was one of the few bright spots yesterday, but other than that Clinton basically mopped the floor with them. All of them. And for John McCain to let Clinton scate on the questions regarding the ambassador’s concerns about security in Benghazi was just shameful. Clinton’s answer to just about everything was, “I didn’t know.” So much ignorance from the person who is supposed to be leading the State Department is disgraceful, but to a person like Clinton it is just a way of doing business. And four Americans are still dead, their murderers are no closer to being caught or killed, and nobody is being held accountable for any of this. And people wonder why we have such little faith in our government.
Ship:
“And people wonder why we have such little faith in our government”
Hey, whats this “we” stuff?
PLENTY of folks have enormous faith in our government…
Wetbacks, Welfare queens, Bailout-ies, Foodstampers, Obama Phone-ies, Paroled Murderers, unpunished Gang-bangers, Islamist Infiltrators, Leftist Teachers, Public Sector Unions…
“Our Government” has done fabulous, over-the-top generous and extravagant things for ALL those people, and believe me, every single one of them has every reason in the WORLD to expect it to continue….
They have ENORMOUS “faith” in our governments ability to deliver the goods to them, REGARDLESS of any ill consequence.
They are Rock-Solid True Believers in “Our Government” and will *ahem*, “defend” those beliefs to the very last dollar of (someone esles) money.
People are not as disillusioned as you think, my friend.
At least 47% of them are downright ECSTATIC about the way things are, believe me!
Wetbacks?. Really dude? You realize that that is a pejorative and racist label don’t you?
With information from any post in the world today being a matter of seconds, why, after a minute or two of the attack on the consulate
and with help nearby, did not Clinton get our CIC to send that help? Clearly, neither of them bothered, or cared. Or perhaps their agenda depended on the attack. The hearings were simply a waste of time and taxpayer money. Clinton’s antics, sneers, fist-making and repetitive evasions of questions asked was sickening. ’nuff said.
This is over the same way that Fast and Furious is over. Obama will simply control the news cycle with another announcement and the herd of mindless drone lame stream media jerks will chase down another bs story. How is it that we have a hearing over 4 months after the fact and 2 months after an election. Hillary is going away which is good at least for now but to think that she is not going to be baaaaack is lunacy. We are not done with this B yet.
O.K. I believe this to be a legit question:
Where is, and who are the nucleus of this “control” that we’re witnessing??
Hillary and ALL the rest have exactly the same talking points, even the same phrases! The talking points etc surely don’t come directly from the MSM.
Where does Carney get the talking points?
Do the orders come directly from Obama?
Hillary and many others seem to have NO relationship with Obama.
Biden is kept conveniently out of the way on things like his “gun control” committee etc.
Who the hell is giving the orders then? Jarret and Axelrod? The U.N.?
Somebody please tell me!!!
I wondered about the same thing. I assume there is a room somewhere full of Democratic strategists, speechwriters and handlers, probably a mix of recent Ivy League indoctrinaires, 60′s radical/yuppies and grievance industry professionals all chattering authoritatively and full of themselves. The one thing they have in common is their cultist devotion to The One and an unshakable belief in their right to use common resources and any means necessary to further their Utopian goals and objectives. These are not people who could ever make it in the private sector because they create no real value and therefore could not attract the funds needed to operate.
Secretary of State Clinton: it makes a difference because American lives were wasted that could have been saved had the US government exercised due diligence to protect lives put in harm’s way by their service to America.
There can be no doubt that American lives were lost because of government incompetence and criminal neglect.
The unanswered question is “what was the Ambassador doing in Benghazi that demands the US government lie to the American people in order to create diversion from answering that question?”
There is no rational reason that such a fallacious excuse would be conjured-up to explain the events in Benghazi if the US government wasn’t trying to hide activities more grievous than the murder of an American Ambassador.
The perfidy of this administration in this matter is intolerable. That’s what difference it makes!
That my friend, sums it up.
…so it will happean again now and in the future since she doesn’t want to discuss.
I hear that Hillary lip synched her testimony.
Sounds like many of the questions were lip synched, also.
The only live oration was the obsequious bouquets of admiration.
Apparently, “it doesn’t matter” how often Hillary lies.
I turned to my wife and said “Well Honey, I have a great cartoon idea, the janitor at the WH is bent over holding up a rug in the oval office while sweeping the words Benghazi under it and O is walking out side by side with Hillary as they dust off their hands, Hillary turns to O and says ‘I’ll buy lunch this time, heh heh heh, or better yet let’s just put it on the tab, heh, heh, heh’ (back slap, high five, fade to hallway’)”
– hysterical. Perhaps will pull a Dean when she runs in ’16.
I’m not sure which is more astonishing, her audacity, or the stupidity of the the portion of the public who accept the implied narrative of the leftist media that Benghazi is a Republican ploy to score points against the dems. Agreed that the Republican questioners needed to have more bite, and more persistence in getting to detail. Why did Rand Paul say “I don’t believe you had bad intentions”?. Darn right she did. To the left it’s just a con game, a fun episode to discuss and laugh about. Nothing short of major disaster will get their attention.
Hillary is a paragon of hubris. “What does it matter?”
You had a job to do, you failed, and now you’re lying and adding more lies to your original lies, and you’re incredibly disrespectful. Her day will come.
Obama is going to get away with this, isn’t he? And so is Clinton. We don’t have a democratic Republic anymore, we have a sleazy dictatorship. The only way we’re getting our country back is by force.
We lost the country in the 60′s, nothing can “bring her back”.
Its only a matter of dying with principal now.
Choosing WHEN that happens, is all we have left.
These people don’t operate on the principle, “The Buck Stops Here.” They are all, “now who can I finger for blame, ’cause *I’m* not going to take the heat for this.”
We have arrogant, little spiteful children running this nation now.
Don’t worry. When Barry declares martial law at the end of this term, he and the lickspittle media will purge the records and all will be wiped clean as new. “What difference does it make” will have a whole new meaning then….
What would have happened if five months after Pearl Harbor 1941 the Secretary of State was before a congressional comittee and when asked about what happened He responded with, The Japanese bombed us, we were unprepared, our defenses were down, ships sunk and people died, “what difference does it make” what if Rosevelt had accepted the loss and covered it up, What if Truman at the funerals of the fallen had told the parents, “Boy your son must have had balls this big Ha, Ha, Ha”
What if Lincoln went to Gettysburg and said, Four score and seven years ago, What difference does it make?
People under her authority died and she and her boss watched and did nothing, to answer about their lies that it was some youtube video what set it off and then when confronted with the truth states, “WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE” is disgusting.
Pearl WHAT?
Gettysburg?
Oh, thats HISTORY…
Democrats dont know history, schools dont teach it, and the Media doesnt CARE about it.
History is..well, HISTORY as far as Obamanaut voters are concerned.
Where YOU been recently?
Kanye -n- Kim LOVE whats going on in Washington
Alledgely she was sick for weeks (fall, flu etc.) Really she was preparing for this performance, rehearsing you can say. She’s botoxed up, probably an eye lift too. The thick glasses hide the recent stitches.
we are now a nation that leaves its heroes laying on the battlefield, to die alone, knowing in their last moments they have been betrayed. what can one say about a vacant souless america and a cut and paste plastic abomination who actually questions, what difference does it makes.
It’s nice to see Hillary revert to her Evita mode: “Don’t you dare question me, peasant!” Or is that her Marie Antoinette mode? “Let them eat yellowcake!”
Hillary went out and lied about the poor movie-making schlemiel, in order to imply, “It’s our own fault. No need to retaliate on the Muslims.”
Then What’s-her-name Rice also went out and tried to deflect anger from the Muslims.
And Obama trotted out his idiotic krap about, “We’ll track down the varmints what done this, and arrest ‘em!”
It’s all to keep from having to DO something; from having to retaliate on the medieval heathens who perpetrated the atrocity. God forbid we retaliate on Obama’s Muslim homies, after a modern Pearl Harbor!
I am so disgusted with this inept liar! And even more bitter because she’ll get away with ALL OF THIS. HOW DARE YOU, CLINTON..HOW DARE YOU!
Thank you for stating the obvious. There was clearly an avalanche of warnings foretelling dangerous risks threatening American foreign installations.
Only the USDOS is responsible for the security of physical buildings and facilities. To claim otherwise is clearly a deliberate fabrication.
The attitude MS Clinton demonstrated in the Benghazi Hearings were the exact same misguided behavior that resulted in Hillary being fired by the Chairman of the Watergate Prosecution of the US Judiciary Committee.
It is a sad day in the history of our country that Ms Clinton can say I was responsible on the one hand and at the same time arrogantly refuse to accept the personal repercussions for failure to prevent the murders of four American citizens and then hide behind the Benghazi coverup!
It appeared that Nurse Ratched had given most of the questioners their daily meds. Randle McMurphy Paul seemed like the only one not swallowing the BS.
All of HC’s answer were typical Salynsky tactics. Just like they do everyday-false outrage and blame the messenger rather than the culprit-she never really answered any questions yesterday but the “what difference does it make” comment was really telling of her personal feelings about the whole situation-and yes I think she did have a face lift-she needed one badly
Any criminal prosecutor worth his salt would have made mincemeat out of HC’s testimony. These republicans are starting to make me just as sick as the progs do. By the way, where are the Bengazi survivors? Don’t you think their testimony would be insightful? Perhaps we could recall them from Antarctica or wherever else they’ve been “disappeared” to.
This isn’t very complicated. You guys tried to manufacture a scandal, and you failed. Obviously you can claim that the fault lies with the media or your own party or with the American public; but that doesn’t change the political facts. The game is over, even though the lady who sang isn’t fat.
Please don’t waste your time and energy on the likes of Jim Harrishmuck a.k.a. Jim Hitlerson. He has venomous opinions on every topic, even ones he knows nothing about. He is simply too ignorant to understand how ignorant he is. However, he thinks he knows everything about everything and thinks he has the solution to all of the world’s problems. The guy is what Thomas Sowell might call a self-anointed messiah. He believes that civilized and successful people and countries are intrinsically evil and he has a vicious hatred of Jews and of Israel. His posts are often incoherent ramblings. He evades questions, he tells outright lies and he throws tantrums. Please don’t waste your time and energy on this immature, malignant, narcissistic, attention-starved, anti-Semitic demagogue.
You’re right on one point. It is over. It’s over because you guys want it to be over, and you hold the reins of power for now. This was no manufactured scandal. If you had paid attention, you would have noticed their are many questions that have not been answered, and will never be answered, as long as the media (yes, that media) is in the pocket of this administration. It isn’t very complicated at all.