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Related: About this forumBenghazi Hearing: While Republicans Barked And Snarled, Hillary Smiled (HILLARY GROUP)
To watch Hillary Clintons Republican antagonists during Thursdays public hearing of the House Select Committee on Benghazi was to wonder how they could possibly behave the way they did. As representatives of the American people, they not only failed miserably to fulfill the responsibilities entrusted to them, but exposed their own blithering ignorance of basic aspects of government.
Determined as they were to encourage doubt about Clintons presidential candidacy, they instead elevated her and raised hard questions about their own knowledge, character, temperament, and intellectual capacity to serve in Congress. After months of investigating Clinton, the Republican committee members have developed only a dim understanding of simple phenomena like the many and varied sources of information, beyond emails, that are available to the Secretary of State. Only someone very dense, very poorly informed, or both, would believe, for instance, that she had received most of her intelligence about Libya, or any other subject, in unclassified email traffic.
Often the sheer mindlessness of their inquiries was stunning: Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL) asked Clinton whether she had been alone all night at home on Sept. 11, 2012, while the tragic events in Benghazi occurred. Rep. Mike Pompeo inquired whether the late Ambassador Chris Stevens had ever visited Clintons home or possessed her fax number. Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) demanded that Clinton admit that as Secretary of State she had overseen American policy toward Libya. Several of the Republicans interrupted her rudely, upbraided her for looking at notes, even while they read from their own notes, and demanded that she give Yes or No answers to their queries, as if they were prosecutors grilling a perp.
The lines of inquiry that the Republicans pursued were muddled, directionless, and confusing, seemingly even to them. As the Democrats repeatedly pointed out, after all the tumult over Clintons emails, the proceedings of this committee so far following several legislative and administrative investigations revealed nothing new about the terrorist attack on the US compound in Benghazi, its prelude, or its aftermath....
http://www.nationalmemo.com/benghazi-hearing-while-republicans-barked-and-snarled-hillary-smiled/ via Joe Conason, via National Memo
Gothmog
(145,635 posts)Hillary Clinton did a tremendous job
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)I have wondered, what did the question to Clinton about whether she was alone the rest of the night have to do with determining what could be done in the future to prevent this tragedy from occurring again.
I ask that also about whether Chris Stevens had ever gone to her residence and on and on about crappy questions like this.
Hillary did really well in the testimony, the Republicans did very poorly. Next apple, please.
mcar
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