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Wed Jan 23, 2013, 02:00 PM

44. The intelligence-gathering and immediate response to an attack on a ME/African consulate

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is pretty important, especially on a terror anniversary, especially on a day of inflamed mobs and protest across the region. To deny that would be similar to suggesting that all the separate--but simultaneous--attacks that happened on 9/11 didn't matter in relation to each other.

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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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