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In the discussion thread: Clinton Scolds GOP Senator On Whether Protest Sparked Benghazi Attack [View all]

Response to TwilightGardener (Reply #23)

Wed Jan 23, 2013, 01:51 PM

jeff47 (7,357 posts)

42. No, it actually doesn't matter

You jack up security at other locations even if it's people just walking down the street. Because other, unrelated people walking down another street could hear about it and think, "that's a good idea!"

In the short run, it doesn't matter if it was a coordinated, planned attack. The short-term response is the same.

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66 replies	Author	Time	Post
Clinton Scolds GOP Senator On Whether Protest Sparked Benghazi Attack [View all]	Harry Monroe	Jan 2013	OP
good for Hillary	samsingh	Jan 2013	#1
I hate to say it, but it does make a difference. Sorry, Hillary.	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#2
Agreed	Sherman A1	Jan 2013	#4
I don't think they deliberately invented the protest story, because it was being reported on in the	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#7
Didn't we all see vidoes of the people outside?	robinlynne	Jan 2013	#11
Yes--that was how it was being reported. I think the State Dept. just damn didn't know	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#12
Watch the Rose Garden statement.	JDPriestly	Jan 2013	#38
The fact that they were piecing it together and on different pages	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#40
There were protests in Cairo and the Cairo embassy tried to deal	karynnj	Jan 2013	#21
I remember the reports of mobs carrying Mr. Stevens out--and the disagreement on whether	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#24
Isn't it possible that if some were trying to help Mr. Stevens they were betrayed by some in their	patrice	Jan 2013	#29
I don't know--I still don't know why there were mobs carrying him to begin with. I don't know	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#32
You are right	karynnj	Jan 2013	#55
Four murders occurred only in Benghazi.	merrily	Jan 2013	#57
It is true that there were murders only in Benghazi,	karynnj	Jan 2013	#64
I did not say anything about lack of concern.	merrily	Jan 2013	#65
In their early press conferences on the matter, Hillary spoke of the matter as an assault on	JDPriestly	Jan 2013	#37
Right after the event, it was reported by wire services as a terrorist attack and that is what the	merrily	Jan 2013	#51
But did they invent it?	marshall	Jan 2013	#63
NOT IN THE ARENA OF POLITICS.	pansypoo53219	Jan 2013	#9
Then	Sherman A1	Jan 2013	#17
There WAS an investigation!!!	blue_heron	Jan 2013	#36
Yes, there was an investigation	Sherman A1	Jan 2013	#39
Yes.	1983law	Jan 2013	#45
It may be good to know it now,	marybourg	Jan 2013	#53
But only the perps know why they did it.	CJCRANE	Jan 2013	#5
What if the "facts", at the time this happened, put other Americans in danger?	djean111	Jan 2013	#6
and the facts are that was a CIA house. They should be asking the CIA. not Hillary.	robinlynne	Jan 2013	#13
It would appear she thinks so too...	LanternWaste	Jan 2013	#8
My read is not that she thinks it makes no difference, but that in real time it made no difference.	Richardo	Jan 2013	#22
That can't be true. If AQ is attacking one embassy or consulate, it could be simultaneously	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#23
No, it actually doesn't matter	jeff47	Jan 2013	#42
The intelligence-gathering and immediate response to an attack on a ME/African consulate	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#44
You're still talking about the long-term response	jeff47	Jan 2013	#61
meh. you do your best with the info you have at the time	struggle4progress	Jan 2013	#25
Anybody knows how to do investigations	John2	Jan 2013	#27
I fully agree--the GOP is trying desperately for "gotcha" moments and have no real intention	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#30
I was still	John2	Jan 2013	#43
Agree! The biggest information from that hearing was yet again the Republican House holding up funds	patrice	Jan 2013	#34
+1. I want to cheer for Sec. Clinton here, but it does matter and she knows it.	hughee99	Jan 2013	#31
I agree--as far as mistakes go, this is not the biggest. By far.	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#35
She voted for the Iraq War Resolution and the WOT resolution, too, though.	merrily	Jan 2013	#47
There's that too.	hughee99	Jan 2013	#49
I am not sure if those decisions were information based (good or bad) or based on	merrily	Jan 2013	#58
I disagree. Facts are pieces of data, it is interpreting that data correctly that's the challenge	Demo_Chris	Jan 2013	#56
I love her, too!	hamsterjill	Jan 2013	#3
She is a diplomat . . .	another_liberal	Jan 2013	#10
That ""...QUOTE..."" is never in the article, only in article's title.	Festivito	Jan 2013	#14
Who knows for sure what the attackers were thinking.. we may never know.	DCBob	Jan 2013	#15
Agree about how things get muddled in a crisis situation. Complicated by media's insistence	pinto	Jan 2013	#18
Sec. Clinton was impressive throughout the whole hearing.	pinto	Jan 2013	#16
I love it when she uses her "Mom Voice" on these idiots...	Jeff In Milwaukee	Jan 2013	#19
What a horrid, embarrassing putz he is.	Greybnk48	Jan 2013	#52
Murder sparked Benghazi.	topcat007	Jan 2013	#20
That's the gal I voted for in 2008.	Beacool	Jan 2013	#26
When trying to be reasonable doesn't work, you have to smack these bastards	BeyondGeography	Jan 2013	#28
Freshman senator with no foreign policy experience	bluestateguy	Jan 2013	#33
He should be in the hearing if he's on the committee, but the GOP will pick out its new "stars" and	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#41
Wasn't our current president, at one time, a freshman Senator with no foreign policy experience	hughee99	Jan 2013	#50
I don't remember Obama being at the fore of questioning in SFRC panels.	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#60
I think you're right about that.	hughee99	Jan 2013	#62
Wouldn't that description have fit Senator Obama and	merrily	Jan 2013	#59
The difference it makes has to do with whether or not government misled	merrily	Jan 2013	#46
Clinton is smashing them like bugs against a windshield	appacom	Jan 2013	#48
Can any of these knuckleheads actually ask her a question & let her answer it?	Myrina	Jan 2013	#54
I always respect Hillary more when she goes off script like her infamous "stand by your man" crack	yurbud	Jan 2013	#66

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