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Clinton´s Testimony & Case
for More Embassy Security
International Business Times, by Joanne Butler
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Posted By:JoanneButler, 1/23/2013 4:41:41 PM
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| Secretary of State Clinton’s testimony Wednesday is really about the need for more funding to physically strengthen United States embassies. As a penny-pinching Republican, you might be surprised to learn I think this is a good idea. Having worked with a former Iranian U.S. hostage from 1979 -- the Canadians smuggled him out -- and a lucky U.S. foreign affairs officer who happened to be in a meeting elsewhere when our embassy in Kenya was blown up in 1998, this matter is personal to me. And when I think what it was like working at the U.S. House on Sept.11, my feelings grow that much
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Topic Thunder, 1/23/2013 4:54:59 PM (No. 9134994)
What´s the point of us having a consulate in a war zone like Benghazi?
Isn´t that like the Libyans having a consulate in a war zone like Chicago?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 1/23/2013 5:08:39 PM (No. 9135003)
Is it just my imagination, or is Congress afraid to put this lying whore under oath?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
steveracer, 1/23/2013 5:11:22 PM (No. 9135007)
Is it just my imagination, or is this lying wh-ore looking more and more like Ben Franklin?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 1/23/2013 5:32:46 PM (No. 9135047)
If you want to go to work for the government, just go ahead and do it, but you´d better understand that none of the people in Washington, of any strip, color or party, really give a damn about about you any ore than they do the people who are footing the bill. If there´s any money, power or prestige for them attached to some event, you can bet they´ll shoot the legs out from under you in a heartbeat just to be able to obtain it. That´s how it all really works.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dante, 1/23/2013 5:38:37 PM (No. 9135062)
Appears her testimony makes a case for her to be held for psychiatric observation.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
tipover, 1/23/2013 6:17:41 PM (No. 9135127)
The money was never a factor in the decisions made. That was admitted by the State Dept. not long after the attack.
That fact makes this article suspect from the "git go".
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/23/2013 6:36:26 PM (No. 9135163)
They have the money but chose to spend it on parties and waste. So now they want more money. No thanks on that deal
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
srhcb, 1/23/2013 6:36:58 PM (No. 9135164)
What percentage of us (who even cared) were under the impression that US Marines guarded our embassies and foreign service personnel in hostile lands?
Especially near "the shores of Tripoli"!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/23/2013 8:47:02 PM (No. 9135328)
#8,most of us thoought the marines were armed guards. but the reality is that they are mostly symbols of security, with unloaded weapons.
And hillary said something was was truthful, among her lie, and here it is.
The u.s. embassy folks are really at the mercy of the host country. but the additional truth to that is that we never should have our embassy folks in an unstable country. That is just plain stupid, with lots of wishful thinking by the U.S. added in.
The brits bailed out of benghazi, as did the international red cross. perhaps hillary missed out on that critical information while she was doing wine tasting in various countries.
No one was in charge at State. No one!
And that Board that investigated the benghazi mess didn´t interview Hillary!
Why not? Hillary said that if the Board thought she could add information to their findings, they would have requested an interview with her! How crazy is that??
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Momma Walton, 1/23/2013 9:40:29 PM (No. 9135400)
Will this continue throughout Obama´s presidency! He has caused more turmoil and discontent than all the previous occupants of the White House.
Seems the only sin for the Libs is "getting caught"!
Obama has continually done all he is able to, knowing exactly what he is doing, to destroy America.
Congress needs to stand up for righteousness, not political-correctness!
Hillary may think she got by today, but her day is still ahead of her when God has the last word and she won´t like it. He knows the truth and mostly, He knows her heart/mind/soul/spirit!
Congress, the White House as well as the Judiciary all need to know that they are supposed to represent US, their employer and the one who pays their salaries!
Prayer alone is our own salvation, knowing God hears and will act when we sincerely, humbly come to Him for His intercesson.
Obama may think he is above the law, but God is still sovereign and He will have the last word. Amen (So be it) The sooner the better!
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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