Next All Points: Benghazi

Such unflappable poise, maturity and stoicism in the face of nasty, sustained grunting from those horrid Republican neanderthals. I would like to assign a readers’ “Turkey” to The Express-Times.

Many in the media, including pundits, have asserted that the hearing was pointless and that Clinton won the day. But she couldn’t do it without the assistance of the “mainstream media”. Nearly universally ignored or glossed over in this coverage is the significant revelation that Sec. If nothing else, Clinton’s appearance proved to be a daylong infomercial for her ability to remain calm and composed under vast pressure.

That is clearly more encouraging news than whatever fresh-baked takes are wafting across Twitter, but the mechanism behind the outpouring of support isn’t an unalloyed gift.

This White House, this Administration, these politicians, have no shame.

Secretary Clinton defended the State Department’s handling of security at the Benghazi facility by pointing out that there are plenty of diplomatic posts in war zones and that danger in these circumstances is to be expected. “I said a few have sought to justify the attack because of the video”.

In point of fact, Clinton and Obama had everything to do with the anti-Islamic video trailer, Innocence of Muslims.

Hofstadter’s original essay was published in 1964, largely in response to the apocalyptic anti-Communism of Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign, which marked the birth of the New Right. The father of one Benghazi victim relays how Clinton told him that the administration would arrest “the filmmaker who was responsible for the death of your son”.

In real life, however, Hillary sold the false video narrative hard in the weeks after the attack, most disgracefully to the families of the dead. The idea among Republican strategists to make Benghazi the cornerstone of their attacks against the former secretary of state may go down as the dumbest political decision in the history of modern American politics, even worse than Ross Perot trying to quit the ’92 race because he feared wedding crashers at his daughter’s nuptials.

After finally walking out of the never-ending hearing in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Benghazi, Clinton flexed and told a reporter “yoga always helps” when asked how she lasted through almost half a calendar day of vitriolic redundancy. Check out her email to Miss Chelsea on the night of the massacre. She was telling truth in private, she was telling spin to the American people.

Just as she looked Charles Woods in the eye three years ago, while his son’s remains and those of three other Americans killed by jihadists lay nearby, so did Hillary Clinton look America in the eye during Thursday’s testimony. Ansar al Sharia is al Qaeda’s affiliate on the Arabian Peninsula. “It was a planned attack – not a protest”.

Nothing to do with the film.

While Clinton’s performance was remarkable, it shouldn’t take that amount of prodigious self-control for a woman to avoid scrutiny over how she carries herself. As much homework as she did to get ready for the Libya committee, she chose not to do her homework on Iraq in 2002 – neglecting to read the sketchy National Intelligence Estimate. “Quite the opposite. It was invaluable, for the clarity provided by those three emails alone”. Let’s fixate on her facial expressions and above-the-fray “poise”. Incidentally, Rep. Jim Jordan’s (unnecessarily shouty) confrontation of Mrs. Clinton with this evidence wasn’t the only eyebrow-raising moment of the marathon hearings. We don’t know and probably never will. But it’s certainly possible. Those many interactions were juxtaposed with the acknowledgement that Clinton’s “dear friend” Amb.

Personally, I prefer my political scandals sexual.

“You’ve made several inaccurate statements over the past months as you’ve tried to defend against multiple Republican admissions that the select committee has been wasting millions of tax dollars to damage Secretary Clinton’s bid for president”, Cummings said, growing angry during his exchange with Gowdy.

But would a Clinton presidency be much tougher on the oligarchy? Gowdy claims that she was not truthful about where she got this percentage from and even Gowdy himself has no proof to indicate that she is lying. If so, big win for her.