can i direct your attention to the screen? your familiar with that clip. we came, we saw, he died. is that the clinton doctrine? no. that was an expression of relief that the military mission undertaken by nato and our other partners had achieved its end and, therefore, no more american, european or arab lives would be at stake in trying to prevent gadhafi from wreaking havoc on libyans or causing more problems to the region and beyond. i want to direct your attention and maybe direct the group s attention right now to something that hasn t really been discussed. there s been this explicit criticism of republicans being partisans today. but i want to direct your attention to what is actually going on with you and your team,
so the president deserves the historic credit. what role i played, i m very grateful to have had that chance, and i m very convinced that it was the right thing to do. you just resited the clinton doctrine to us. let me tell you what i think it is. i think it s where an opportunity is seized to turn progress in libya into a political win for hillary clinton. and at the precise moment when things look good, take a victory lap like on all the sunday e shows before gadhafi was killed and turn your attention to other things. i yield well, congressman, that only a political statement which you well understand. and i don t understand why that has anything to do with what we are supposed to be talking about today. madame secretary, votes have been called, so we will go vote and be in recess. and we will be back as quickly as we can. okay.
one of my colleagues spent his time asking about some interactions with the oppressed people, i guess critiquing your overall libya strategy and something he called clinton doctrine. we ve been assured this committee, contrary to what representative mccarthy said, is not about attacking you but i don t see the relevance of any of those questions in terms of what happened in benghazi except as a means of trying to attack you or make a political statement regarding the presidential campaign. and then there was the continuing preoccupation with sidney blumenthal, chairman spent both panels asking you about sidney blumenthal. vie to say, i don t understand the preoccupation with sidney blumenthal. you would think for the time we have spent on him that he was in benghazi, on the night manning the barricades. there is not a member on this die oes that doesn t have
but there were a few unique lines of questioning that i want to comment and ask you about. one of my colleagues spent his time asking about some of your interactions with your press people. i guess critiquing your overall libya strategy in something he called the clinton doctrine. we ve been assured this committee contrary to what representative mccarthy said is not about attacking you. frankly i don t see the relevance of any of those questions in terms of what actually happened in benghazi except as a means of trying to attack you or make a political statement regarding the presidential campaign. and then there was the continuing preoccupation with sidney blumenthal. the chairman spent both panels asking you about sidney blumenthal. and i have to say i just don t understand the preoccupation with sidney blumenthal. you would think for the time we have spent on him that he was in benghazi on the night manning the barricades. there is not a member on this
that is the white house that the amount of credit you were getting opposed to the amount of credit the president is getting? that s true, isn t it? the president deserves the credit. why is the white house uptake that you re taking the credit. i was often being asked that. the president had had a lot going on. the president was trying to rescue the economy. a lot of other things happening. so from my perspective, the president deserves the credit. he s the one who made the decision. i was honored to be part of the team that advised him. and in so fares a i was able, i was ready to do so. so tab 11, when jake e-mails you and said that you should publicize this if all of your television appearances, they wanted to have you lay down something definitive, almost like the clinton doctrine. that wasn t the obama doctrine. is that right? this was the clinton doctrine. well, look, i think that the