Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, already suffering from a stomach virus that forced her to cancel an overseas trip. has fainted and suffered a concussion, according to the State Department.
The 65-year-old Clinton, who’s expected to leave her job soon after serving as America’s top diplomat during President Barack Obama’s first term, is recovering at home after the incident last week and is being monitored by doctors, according to a statement by aide Philippe Reines.
No further details were immediately available.
The statement said Clinton was dehydrated because of the virus and that she fainted and sustained a concussion. She will continue to work from home in the week ahead and looks forward to being back in the office “soon,” the statement said.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee said it won’t hear from Clinton as planned at a Thursday morning hearing into the Sept. 11 attack against a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. She also was scheduled to testify that afternoon before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Clinton’s aides on Saturday informed the Senate committee chairman, Sen. John Kerry, about her health, and the Massachusetts Democrat “insisted that given her condition, she could not and should not appear” as planned, said Kerry spokeswoman Jodi Seth. Senior department officials are expected to testify instead.
Not that she would have shed any light on what happened in Benghazi, but she would have established a record that committee members could have then tried to verify. Unraveling what happened is going to involve pulling the “official” story apart one thread at a time. Clinton’s testimony would almost certainly would have been self-serving. But it may also have given avenues of investigation to the committee that they didn’t have previously.
As Captain Renault says in Casablanca about his heart: “That is my least sensitive part”.
And the resulting selective amnesia from her fall will give her plausible deniablity.
I think if you check the archives the concussion happened back when Bill and her were fighting over Monica…..I heard she throws a mean left, Bill just caught her with his trick right hook
From being a novice investor who turned $1000 into $100,000 in cattle futures in one year, to finding her records the day after the statute of limitations runs out, and now a convenient concussion, Hillary! sure has led a charmed life.
Good One!
I remember the time I got a concussion. Mr. Jack Daniels played no small part in the proceeding. I’m wondering if he’s been out and about again of late.
Isn’t dehydration a symptom of meeting Mr Daniels?
“insisted that given her condition, she could not and should not appear…”
How terribly convenient for the Secretary.
How Convenient.
Doncha just love this report. Moran accepts the story without the slightest scepticism.
Wasn’t Hillary just telling us yesterday that she was in the pink of health and rip-roaring ready to be the next dictator, if the current one decides to vacate his palace for a better one.
And then, surprise, through some unworldly coincidence, and just in time to avoid perjuring herself in front of congress, she “slips” and get a “concussion”. No doubt, the “concussion” will make it very very difficult to recall the details of Benghazi, which, of course, she was hardly aware of until somebody told her about the evil utube video that might or might not exist but which certainly riled up some natives to kill and rape a US ambassador, an incident for which she acceptd full responsibility while in Lower Slovania or somewhere without telecommunication links to the rest of the world.
It’s all so laughably obvious.
But then, Moran is a died in the wool Republican so it wouldn’t occur to him to raise an eyebrow.
My Gosh, have you never heard of subtlety? The whole thing so obviously smells that there is no need to comment.
Personally, I don’t know what the evidence is. Coincidences do happen, and he is better off just stating it and not leaving something for people to scream at if disporven.
I wonder if her fainting is the result of landing in Bosnia under sniper fire in 1996. Maybe the effects from that incident are just now manifesting themselves.
She makes up a story about landing in Bosnia under sniper fire, and when faced with Senators firing questions at her, she concocts yet another story about fainting and suffering a concussion. Sorry, Hill, but your credibility is zero, so I’m not buying what you’re selling.
Greetings:
I heard that after he wiped a tear from his eye with a finger different from his Newtown, CT finger, President Obama had the Secret Service take his bicycle helmet over to SoS Clinton.
I,m busy right now, important, work to do, It,s my sock drawer again, needs rearranging, but would someone give that lady a cigar, preferably an exploding one.
Predicitable, like a student during final exam week saying, “My dog ate my alarm clock so that is why I am 2 hours late to the final exam this afternoon? Can I do some kind of worksheet for extra credit?”
Maybe she will do us all a favor and forget who she is.
Sure. And there’s a bridge for sale in Brooklyn, too.
Actually I love this. This adds to the delicious flavors mingling in this deadly, savory scandal! Hillary has the vapors! Or has she been poisoned? Did she and Susan Rice plunge together, in one week, upon the sword?
Liar, in essence if not in fact.
A (cough) “Rose” by any other name would still stink of corruption.
– and Kerry who was to have questioned her; media unconcerned.
I know this is beating a dead horse but can you just imagine the media apoplexy if this was Cheney or Rumsfeld or any other member of a Republican administration?
We have a not quite contemporary example. When Nixon was embroilled in the Watergate scandal, he was vilified in the press for declining to personally shlep up to Capitol Hill to appear before multiple committees.
Nixon had a history of suffering from phlebitis (leg blood clots) for decades before he became president. He even had surgery to remove some serious blood clots in 1974. Some in the MSM of the time even went so far as to declare that Nixon’s psychological state (remember how the MSM said Nixon was crazy?) was causing his phlebitis to flare up:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908803,00.html
I’d be willing to believe that Hillary had the flu, but dehydration and a concussion? As other’s have commented before: “How Convenient.”
They are just trying to run out the clock, until Benghazi can be declared “old news” and we can all “move on.”
Incipient perjury anxiety.
So no testimony on Thursday? OK…no prob, lets reschedule.
Oh…brain damage? OK…no prob, guess presidential candidacy is now permanently off table.
So that’s why she let her hair go. Next time she can’t go because she’s washing it.
That’s one way to avoid testifying. I wonder if she becomes President in 2016 if she’ll pull a stunt like that to avoid world leaders or meetings she doesn’t want to bother with?
obviously, politics is a dangerous game if one is slipping and falling and getting concussions
seems we need to put a limit on how long the politicians can serve in office- for their safety of course
Clinton will testify. There’s no way around it.
Just like the general had to.