Hillary Clinton Testifies Before House Foreign Affairs Committee
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the September 11th attack on Benghazi this afternoon.
Monmouth County Congressman Chris Smith is a member of the committee.
Watch the hearing here.
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and agree with Rush that it was a purposefully orchestrated presentation to shift blame to the evil Congress, as if more money, and not better and proper oversight, and brains to realize ALL embassies in this day and age ought to be beefed up with better security, especially on 9/11,in any given year, will be the answer! They are playing fast and loose with our citizens’ lives, and the brazenness of our enemies is quite apparent, and getting worse: because, as we cut only our military and defense, and add more and more to the social programs, (read,their Dem base),we look more like buffoons all the time. When will libs get that our talk is cheap when we don’t mean what we say any more?
With The Rose Law Firm Watergate Records On Her Dining Room Table?
Just my two cents worth on this….I never had a problem with the Administrations intial statesments about whether there were protests or not prior that led to the attack or whether this was a a well cordinated attack prior. Even though the inital statements where wrong, they were definitely well qualified at the time as saying the reports were preliminary and more would be known in days to come….that is basically what happend as the events became clearer. In the big picture, I agree with Mrs. Clinton that was not the imprtant thing here….
The important questions are what could have/should be done differently before, during and now after the attack…..Adressing those question is what can save lives in the future.
What obviously needs to be improved upon is evaluating how well an embasy or consulate can be protected by local police/army etc and if additional United States provided help (troops, hired contractors etc) are needed. If a foreign country is not cappable of protecting our people themselves and if they will not let the US station troops/hired contractors at a particular location, than the question becomes whether we keep the facility open or not.
At the same time the events in Lybia took place, there were protests/riots outside of several other embasies including in Egypt where there were roughly 40000 people in the streets outsdie the embasy. Thankfully the police/army in that country where able to protect our people at that time but it just goes to show how reliant we are uon the host county in parts of the world.