OBSESSED: Jack Lew Faces Benghazi Grilling At Treasury Secretary Confirmation Hearing

[Cali_Democrat]

Bringing up Benghazi during a confirmation hearing for TREASURY?


Posted: 02/13/2013 6:25 pm EST
WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans went hunting for controversy over last year's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, in an unlikely place on Wednesday: the Senate confirmation hearing for Treasury secretary nominee Jack Lew.

Lew, President Barack Obama's chief of staff since January 2012, was grilled by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) about who briefed the president during the hours the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi was taking place. Four Americans were killed in the Sept. 11 assault, including Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya.

The question of President Barack Obama's whereabouts during the seven-hour siege resurfaced as a focal point of Republican concern during a hearing last week when outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he did not brief the president after an early evening meeting about the attack.

One recurring conspiracy theory holds that Obama signed off for the night while the assault raged, motivated in part by a desire to sleep well before a fundraiser the next day in Las Vegas.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/13/jack-lew-benghazi_n_2681009.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. Why would anyone care that the President slept, for whatever reason? He's got the hardest

job in the world. He's no good to anyone if he doesn't sleep--and they can ALWAYS wake him up if need be. I don't get this line of attack.

[HooptieWagon]

2. I'm guessing Burr is another R

who skipped the Bengazi briefing?

[Sekhmets Daughter]

3. I wish Lew had just laughed at the fools who questioned him.

They are desperate to find something, anything, to create a scandal for this presidency.

[Angry Dragon]

4. Ron Reagan: How many times did he say, "I don't know, I don't remember'??

I don't remember the republicans jumping all over him ............