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Related: About this forumClinton isn't the one on the defensive in the Benghazi hearings
The House Select Committee on Benghazi has been furiously preparing for months to interrogate Hillary Rodham Clinton about private email accounts, the computer server in her house, and Americans killed in Libya, but on the eve of the hearing Thursday, it is not Clinton who is on the defensive.
It is the committee.
Congressional Republicans have made so many missteps in the run-up to their marquee event of the presidential primary that the chairman of the committee finally implored his colleagues over the weekend, "Shut up talking about things you don't know anything about." The Clinton campaign now views the daylong grilling that once threatened to derail her White House bid as a veritable campaign stop.
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"Republicans on the committee are going to be under intense pressure to justify their very existence, to justify the existence of this committee and to prove to the American people that this committee is not just another arm of the Republican National Committee," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday.
It is the committee.
Congressional Republicans have made so many missteps in the run-up to their marquee event of the presidential primary that the chairman of the committee finally implored his colleagues over the weekend, "Shut up talking about things you don't know anything about." The Clinton campaign now views the daylong grilling that once threatened to derail her White House bid as a veritable campaign stop.
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"Republicans on the committee are going to be under intense pressure to justify their very existence, to justify the existence of this committee and to prove to the American people that this committee is not just another arm of the Republican National Committee," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-clinton-benghazi-20151021-story.html
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Clinton isn't the one on the defensive in the Benghazi hearings (Original Post)
DesertRat
Oct 2015
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stonecutter357
(12,759 posts)1. K&R!
William769
(55,783 posts)2. Kick & recommended.
quickesst
(6,297 posts)3. I'll give this...
...a big K&R, but I'm curious as to why the repub cut in embassy security isn't brought up. Couldn't she then say, "If the republicans had not voted to cut security funding for our embassies, there is a good possibility we wouldn't be having this conversation, and four American citizens would still be alive." I admit to being somewhat ignorant compared to most regular posters here, and would like an explanation as to why this isn't a viable strategy. Thanks.