Beyond Benghazi: Questions for Hillary
The starting point for questioning Clinton is realizing that the Benghazi debacle embodies both policy and management failures. The administration’s utterly wrong-headed view of the Middle East created an atmosphere that fostered tragically erroneous management decisions. Clinton’s blithe disregard of the actual political reality in Libya and four years of not attending to seemingly mundane management issues represented a palpable failure of leadership directly contributing to the Benghazi tragedy…
But in any organization, there is only one “first chair,” and Clinton must answer why she (and President Obama) was so convinced that the war on terror was over and al Qaeda defeated; that “leading from behind” in overthrowing Khadafy had succeeded, and that the Arab Spring was bringing stability and democracy to Libya and the region more broadly.
The Benghazi tragedy disproved all these assertions, and Clinton is accountable for the broad policy failures, not just the deadly specifics. Congressional hearings should go well beyond the ARB report. The basic questions Clinton now must answer are straightforward: What did she know; when did she know it — and what did she do about it, before, during and after the Sept. 11 attacks? Here are some elaborations:
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Will hill be under oath? Will hill get a major headache and have to leave? Will hill have on a pantsuit?
Who thinks that this is going to get to the bottom of anything? This will end as F&F has, ZERO done and ZERO found out? But it WILL not be bho/hill’s fault, no way!
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letget on December 28, 2012 at 5:42 PM
Asking Hillary Clinton questions is hazardous to her health.
Secretary Clinton will be unable to testify as scheduled due to a crippling yeast infection
malclave on December 28, 2012 at 5:48 PM
Man, I wish that Bolton were preparing the questions for Madame Hilary. She needs to squirm and be unmasked as the prevaricator that she has always been.
onlineanalyst on December 28, 2012 at 6:52 PM
John Bolton is the un-Hillary. He is everything Hillary is not
This is the real key question and it will never be answered.
By what evidence did Hillary think (if she really did think) that the war on terror was over, al quaeda defeated, and the Arab Spring successful
Since Hillary was not on the streets during any of the epic events, she had to make her decisions from either
1. instructions from Obama
2. Reports passed up to her from State and other fed agencies
or – and this is my guess:
3. she made decisions from political calculations, balancing her own ambitions against the Obama cartel, and followed her feelings and intuitions as needed to preserve her political viability. I lean this way because I have never heard a single shred of analysis or hard logic pass out of the mouth of the Hillary
Meanwhile the Natl Enquirer has just come out with a cover story ‘Hillary Clinton Brain Cancer Drama – Memory Loss and Vision Agony’. The Natl Enq engineered some soft landings for Bill C. years ago, using preemptive propaganda strikes to trivialize his babe problems. I still have one clever cover somewhere, Bill and Stewardesses who agreed he chased them, but the image created was a harmless horndog with the cutes, so no biggie. Doesn’t have to be true, but the first story out the door colors everything that follows
entagor on December 28, 2012 at 7:12 PM
A Shakespearean question for Dame Hillary:
Is it conscience rotting inwardly
and causes thy infirmity?
One can hope.
That there might be a shred of human decency left in one of these implacable power-zombies.
profitsbeard on December 29, 2012 at 3:15 AM