Congressional Republicans aren’t letting up on the Benghazi investigations, and they’re planning a series of committee hearings next week. The House Foreign Affairs Committee has invited Hillary Clinton to testify, Fox News reports:
The House Foreign Affairs Committee has scheduled an open hearing for next Thursday on the Libya terror attack and has invited Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to testify, Fox News has learned.
The committee joins two others planning to hold hearings, albeit closed ones, that day.
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the consulate in Benghazi. A local Libyan extremist group is suspected of carrying out the attack, but the Obama administration has been criticized for its confusing explanation for the strike and for security warnings that apparently weren’t heeded.
We’ll see if Clinton takes them up on the invitation. If it comes down to it, committee chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen can always issue a subpoena. The State Department has been trying to shift a lot of the criticism to the CIA recently, but based on what we know so far, it still has the most inconsistencies and blunders to answer for.
Clinton testifying could be a problem for the White House. Even though she said the buck stopped with her on the Benghazi attack, it’s hard to picture her publicly taking the fall for everything if she has 2016 ambitions. And since she’s not sticking around for a second term, the White House may not be able to rein her in. It’s unlikely she would say something that really damages President Obama personally, but she could easily say something that complicates her most likely successor Susan Rice’s chances at the nomination.
Just remember what Bill Safire called Hijab Hillary years ago: "an inveterate liar." Nothing has changed since.
Hillary Clinton has carried out every single Obama policy directive with enthusiasm — no matter how bad it was (remember Honduras?). I have no doubt she will lie and will protect herself, but there's no reason she has to tell any of the truth about Obama to find a scapegoat. Whatever she says the MSM will celebrate both as the truth and as "brave." She can't lose … unless the House keeps at it in spite of all the bad press they're going to get.
and what was wrong with our actions in Honduras?
Do not forget that Hillary was the one who was reportedly throwing furniture in the White House back in the early '90s. I do believe that she has an issue with anger management. If CIA and others are becoming quite open with their issues with State, and they speak first, she could be asked to respond to something said earlier and then the sparks could start flying….
A confusing explanation? That's an odd way to describe a sustained deliberate lie that did not confuse anyone who was paying attention.
Give credit where credit is due. For once the bad writing isn't Goodman's, though she does seem oblivious to it. It's Foxnews.com that decided that the Administration's lies were merely "confusing", and that "the Obama administration has been criticized…for security warnings that apparently weren’t heeded" when in fact it was derelict for not heeding the warnings, not for issuing them.
What's the point? Obama wipes his ass on congressional subpoenas and doesn't worry about contempt citations. I doubt Clinton will even make an appearance at all.
Hillary Clinton is running for election to US President in 2016, already. What do you think she's going to do? Hing: Rhetorical question.