panetta to stand down on the night of the attacks? i want to make the most of your time and allow you to debunk many of the myths. have we found anything that tells us something different about what happened in benghazi and the answer is no. i guess those weren t that tough. hillary found time to plug her new book. i wrote a whole chapter in my book hard choices and i would be glad to send it to you, congressman. did these hearings help hillary clinton today? i think they did, unfortunately. i think she demonstrated she can keep her temper which is something in question. she had command of the facts because cheryl mills who is implicated in this scandal was sitting behind her feeding her notes. and she was able to filibuster a lot of her answers because the republicans like most members of congress are not
it s a terrorist attack. but not the american people. you can tell the egyptian prime minister it s a terrorist attack. but you can t tell your own people the truth. madam secretary, americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country. they don t like it. they mourn for those families. they pray for those families. they can live with it. what they can t take what they can t live with, is when their government s not square with them. mr. chairman, i yield back. madam secretary, you re welcome to answer the question if you would like to. well, i wrote a whole chapter about this in my book, hard choices. i d be glad to send it to you, congressman. because i think the insinuations that you are making do a grave disservice to the hard work that people in the state department, the intelligence community, the
it is a terrorist attack but not the american people and you can tell the egyptian prime minister it is a terrorist attack but you can t tell your own people the truth. madam secretary, americans can live with the fact that good people, sometimes give their lives for this country. they don t like it. they mourn for those families. but and they pray for those families and they can live wit. what they can t take is when their government is not square with them. mr. chairman, i yield back. madam secretary you re welcome to answer the question if you would like to. well, i wrote a whole chapter about this in my book, hard choices. i would be glad to send it to you, congressman, i think insinuations at that you are making do a grave disservice to the hard work that people in the state department, the intelligence community, the defense department, the
in, safe haven, if you will how that didn t work as a way of protecting people because they started a fire using diesel fuel, it s lethal so quickly. the terror ifs were quick to take advantage of using a safe hafben and threatening, ending the life of the ambassador in doing of. i thought she was compellingen i don t think she was phony. i thought she told a story firsthand, or rehearsed it may have been thought about. jonathan carp, publisher of her book, hard choices put out freebie, rare in the publishing business, the chapter in her book about benghazi. i was reading on the plane here. it s quite a chapter. if you want a fuller look at what it s like to be hillary clinton during this whole horror, it s all in the chapter, which anybody can get for free, i think, online from simon and shuster. it s smart that she told that story because, until now, that
roby. i want to follow up on the questions on the night of the attack and the decisions made. you wrote in your book hard choices that you were directing the state department response the night of september 11th, 2012. but you also stated that you left your office on the night of the attacks and went to your home in northwest washington because you said you knew the next few days were going to be taxing, and the department was going to be looking to you. i want to talk about a few things. do you have a skiff in your home? yes, i did. who else was at your home? were you alone? i was alone, yes. the whole night? yes, the whole night. [ laughter ]. i don t know why that s funny. did you have any in-person briefings? i don t ha find it funny at all. a little levity at 7:15. the reason is it went well