State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland reiterated today that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not be testifying on a Benghazi report before congressional committees later this week because of a concussion she reportedly sustained after fainting from dehydration. According to Nuland, Clinton has sent letters to the heads of the House and Senate foreign affairs committees, apologizing for her absence.
When pressed on whether Clinton will testify after she’s recovered, Nuland hedged a bit before saying that Clinton has made if clear that if there is an “ongoing conversation in January” that she’s “available for that.”
If President Obama announces John Kerry’s nomination for secretary of state this week, as expected, the confirmation hearings could begin in early January, which would immediately tie up the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In other words, Congress is unlikely to hear any testimony from Clinton on Benghazi, ever. Since she’s managed to avoid testifying about Benghazi at any point, that means Clinton–who once said she alone was responsible for the security lapses at the diplomatic mission–will walk away from the whole debacle without a scratch. Somewhere, Susan Rice has got to be shaking her head at the injustice of it all.
Since Hijab Hillary is an inveterate liar (Bill Safire's most apt description of her), whatever she would have said to Congress would have just been an elaborate tissue of lies. Far better that she suffered a concussion; one can hope against hope that after convalescing she may unconsciously start speaking the truth.
Gee – we didn't see that coming. In Soviet Russia though she'd be permanently 'ill' until she either quit or died mysteriously. Someone should send a nurse around to make sure that doesn't happen to her. n
"Help, I've fallen and can't get up to testify before Congress."
Susan Rice just might, after carefully meditating on the whole sordid mess, consider herself lucky to be extricated from this exceptionally corrupt administration. I mean she tried; she lied as hard as she could, but she is just not in the same league as Clinton and Obama. If you are not a card shark, you can get eaten alive if you play with other card sharks.
when I first read about this fall and concussion, my first thought was "Where was Colonel Mustard?" n nSeriously, I would like to know where in the EU are diplomats at risk for food poisoning?