Benghazi Committee Member: Clinton Made Hearing Long So GOP Would “Look Cruel”

[brooklynite]

BuzzFeed:

Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a member of the House Select Committee On Benghazi, said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laid “a trap” for the committee by making her Oct. 22 appearance go “as long as possible.”

Last month, Clinton testified before the GOP-led committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The hearing stretched 11 hours and was widely seen as a bust for Republicans.

“As you know, some of you may have watched the marathon Hillary Clinton fiasco, and I say that because Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the committee, wanted to interview her in private, and she said, ‘No, I want to do this in public,’” Westmoreland said in a recent speech uploaded to YouTube.

“Now to me, that was us stepping in a trap because we should have known that she was going to go on and just stall, debate, filibuster, on these answers to make it go as long as possible, so we would look cruel,” he continued.

[GusBob]

1. Sometimes nothing is a real cruel hand. Lol

[edhopper]

6. good one

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[valerief]

2. Westmoreland's wrong. Obama did it.

[lpbk2713]

3. I guess better a ludicrous spin than no spin at all.

You just can't make this shit up.

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. Congressman Westmoreland must live in a suburb of Fantasyland called Victimhood.

[upaloopa]

5. Into the eleventh hour the repubs were talking about

their next round of questions.

[spanone]

7. well, let me be the first to congratulate Ms. Clinton

and fuck trey gowdy

[Wellstone ruled]

8. You just can not make this Hores Manure up.

Most come from one of the Rethug Guarantee Districts.

[NastyRiffraff]

9. She wanted to do it in public

because she knew Republicans would lie if it were in private. Yes, she made Republicans look cru...er, stupid, but she didn't have to make an effort to do that.

[Paladin]

10. Memo to Rep. Westmoreland: Tough shit. (nt)

[Enrique]

11. if true, this would be highly improper of her

they should hold hearings.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Clinton wiped the floor with the GOoPers,

and Westmoreland's acting like a crybaby.

Tough shit, Westmoreland. Your colleagues fucked up on a grand scale. No Kewpie doll.

[DFW]

13. If they think she's THAT clever

If she is nominated, they might as well cede the election there and then.

Save the country a ton of money in the process. Bring spending down, yeee-HAAA!

[procon]

14. Wait a sec... Clinton outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted

all the Republicans on the Benghazi Committee, led them all into a cunning trap, handed them their nuts on a platter and they're worried that they might look "cruel"?

[6000eliot]

15. Weren't THEY the ones asking the questions?

[4now]

16. This is just the beginning

There will be so many more times that Clinton will make you and your chums look like fools.

[Codeine]

17. Pull up a chair then, boys --

she's gonna spend eight straight years making you pig-ignorant dumbfucks look like Amateur Hour.