and she said and i know it serves her purpose, but her opening statement was when can we get back to a bipartisan approach to these tragedies, so whether it s under george w. bush after 9/11, although i must say the 9/11 commission and a lot of those investigations were pretty tough on the bush administration officials, so perhaps that s not a fair analogy, but certainly after the embassy bombings and after the beirut bombing you saw in both republican and democratic administrations you never had this kind of approach to a national tragedy where we lost american lives. i will agree with you there, andrea. i spent some time today watching the hearings but also going through contemporaneous reporting around investigations into things like the khobar towers bombing and the beirut attacks, looking for evidence that there woos a partisan split or even partisan worries about the way those things were
other really important investigations. just as hillary clinton frankly mentioned, a number of investigations following state department security failures and terrible tragedies, going all the way back to the beirut bombing during the reagan years. and the embassy bombings under bill clinton in nairobi. and all of these investigations, 18, before this one, of these accountability review boards. and i can t recall one that has become this political. and she said and i know it serves her purpose, but her opening statement was when can we get back to a bipartisan approach to these tragedies, so whether it s under george w. bush after 9/11, although i must say the 9/11 commission and a lot of those investigations were pretty tough on the bush administration officials, so perhaps that s not a fair analogy, but certainly after the embassy bombings and after the beirut bombing you saw in both republican and democratic administrations you never had
investigations. just as hillary clinton frankly mentioned, a number of investigations following state department security failures and terrible tragedies, going all the way back to the beirut bombing during the reagan years. and the embassy bombings under bill clinton in nairobi. and all of these investigations, 18, before this one, of these accountability review boards. and i can t recall one that has become this political. and she said and i know it serves her purpose, but her opening statement was when can we get back to a bipartisan approach to these tragedies, so whether it s under george w. bush after 9/11, although i must say the 9/11 commission and a lot of those investigations were pretty tough on the bush administration officials, so perhaps that s not a fair analogy, but certainly after the embassy bombings and after the beirut bombing you saw in both republican and democratic