Hillary knows what she has to do tomorrow and long has known what she
wants to say in her testimony to the House Select Committee on
Benghazi. She has not been campaigning this week and probably is
reviewing briefs and papers that the State Department has provided to
the committee.
Most of us will be as glued to various-sized
screens watching the proceedings as time and work permit. In case you
feel you need to brush up on any of the information related to the
Select committee's investigation,
Correct the Record has put together
a handy guide for your convenience.
You can access the pdf of the guide here >>>>
Just
saying, it would have been nice if Appropriations had granted the State
Department an unlimited budget for embassy security in 2011 and 2012
rather than cutting those budget figures, but that's just me.
October 7, 2012
Clearly,
a great deal of what the State Department could and could not do to
increase security, if indeed headquarters was notified of such a need,
rested not in the hands of the department itself, but rather in the
hands of the same body that is now calling the secretary and her
department to task, the House of Representatives and specifically, the Appropriations Committee.
Try
as they might to somehow blame the Secretary of State for not
adequately protecting her colleagues, the Republican Tea Party House
has blood on its hands and should be called to task as well. We should
not forget their role in this going forward.
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Remember that the right sidebar here contains links to the
complete unclassified Accountability Review Board report and the
cover letter
that accompanied to to Congress in late 2012 when a good number of the
recommendations in that report had already been implemented. This
remains the seminal document covering the events of September 11, 2012.
In case you did not already know.
October 22, 2015
Hillary
Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which
is investigating the events surrounding the 2012 terrorist attack on the
U.S. consulate there, in which Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three
others died.
Airing LIVE Thursday, Oct 22 10:00am EDT on C-SPAN3
The campaign has provided this brief, which is nice and succinct. if you have time to read nothing else, read this.
Oct 21, 2015 by John Podesta
The Benghazi Committee, explained.
Hillary is on Capitol Hill today, testifying in front of the House Select Benghazi Committee. Here’s what it’s all about.
What happened in Benghazi
On
September 11, 2012, a group of Islamic militia members attacked a U.S.
diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya. Four Americans were killed in the
terrorist attack: U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glenn
Doherty, and Tyrone Woods.
For Hillary, who was serving as
secretary of state at the time, the tragedy is personal. She was the one
who had asked the late Chris Stevens to serve as ambassador to Libya.
She was with President Obama at Andrews Air Force Base when Marines
brought home the caskets of the four Americans. Anyone who knows Hillary
knows she isn’t the kind of person to stand around wringing her hands
after a tragedy—she leapt into action immediately to prevent anything
like this from ever happening again.
The Benghazi Committee is the eighth—yes, eighth—congressional review of the tragedy.
The
events in Benghazi have been scrutinized by countless panels, news
organizations, and government agencies. After the attack, Hillary set up
a nonpartisan panel known as the Accountability Review board (ARB) to
investigate. The panel made dozens of recommendations for improvement.
By the time Hillary left office, every single reform was on its way to
being implemented.
After the ARB, seven congressional panels have
also completed investigations. Five were led by Republicans. None found
any wrongdoing. But even with these conclusive findings, House
Republicans approved an unlimited budget—yup, we’re talking about your
taxpayer dollars—for an eighth congressional review. Enter the House
Select Benghazi Committee.
The House Select Benghazi Committee has one goal.
Now,
if you’re wondering why Republicans are still at it even after the
thorough reviews—or if you’re thinking that sounds a little fishy—you’re
onto something. Over the past few weeks, a number of key
Republicans—from House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to New York’s Rep.
Richard Hanna—have copped to the truth about why this committee was
established in the first place: to “go after” Hillary Clinton and to
hurt her presidential candidacy. A whistleblower has even come forward
to say that he was fired because he objected to how partisan the
inquiry was.
Trey
Gowdy, the chair of the committee, has predicted the probe will
continue well into 2016. Their aim is clear: hurt Hillary’s chances of
winning the presidential election. And for those of you who are curious,
no, the committee has not been able to produce any new facts about the
attack.
What you’ll hear today
“No one wants to find out what happened more than I do.”
Hillary, October 24, 2012
Hillary’s
first priority is to get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi.
That’s the right thing to do—and the way to make sure it doesn’t happen
again. That’s why she has already testified on Capitol Hill about the
tragedy (twice, in fact), and she has been asking to testify before the
this committee for more than a year so that the public can hear her
answers.
Republicans, on the other hand, are going to exploit
whatever they can to mislead voters about Hillary’s record. They’ll
grill her about emails and anything else they can think of to discredit
her.
But here’s what Hillary is going to do: stay focused, clarify
the facts, and offer some lessons that we can learn to protect
Americans going forward. The men and women who serve our country deserve
nothing less.
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