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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat came through for me about the Benghazi hearing
was how uninformed all of these Republicans were about how our Government runs. They had no idea of the size of the State Dept nor what it's responsibilities are, no idea of what the Secretary of State does, what roll the Military plays, why we have Ambassadors, the duties of an Ambassador and on and on. I learned a lot from Hillary's answers about the State Department and how it works that helped also to explain what happened in Benghazi and why.
randys1
(16,286 posts)and they joined together, all of the car wash Black haters, all the 7-11 store clerks who hate Black people, they all got together and elected each other to government.
Gowdy is a former prosecutor, so he has some background.
Wonder how many Black people he put in prison.
They are basically stupid people who dont care how the government runs, because they want to destroy it.
emulatorloo
(44,109 posts)Plus the writer is funny as hell. Link here:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/republicans-11-hour-gift-to-hillary-clinton-20151023
The Republican members of the committee demonstrated their ignorance on two issues repeatedly over the days duration. Many seemed totally unaware of the contents of previous Benghazi reports and testimony. If this had been a conventional courtroom, Clinton's attorneys could have objected with "asked and answered" and turned the proceedings into 11 hours of tape hiss.
Many of the Republicans also seemed ignorant of how the State Department even functions. Republican Rep. Susan Brooks of Indiana showed off a pile of Hillary's emails pertaining to Libya from 2011 and another from 2012, then insinuated that the much smaller 2012 pile indicated her administrative indifference to the issue. Her case of the piles signaled an unawareness of the face that the State Department conducts the majority of its communications through cables, and that things like telephones exist, and that one of the unfortunate byproducts of conducting business on the telephone is that it doesn't generate an email afterward. Even the most generous interpretation of her questions can't elide the fact that the disparity in emails could easily have indicated general conversational traffic about Libya that eventually shifted to the official cable system as the maintenance of the Benghazi compound became more urgent.
Much more at link.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Thanks
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)because they seemed to think she made the final decision on going to Benghazi.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)lamp_shade
(14,826 posts)Maybe I missed the others, but yours is the first post I've read that calls this out. Last night, a guest on MSNBC, a former Clinton assistant of ??, who had been a witness at one of the prior hearings, made a similar observation. After having watched all 11 hours, his statement smacked me in the head. I yelled "YESSSS".
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)Thanks for sharing.
Hillary showed them up for the know nothing bullies they are.