criticizing the military, the state department, former secretary of state hillary clinton, and americans instead of focusing on the 29 recommendations that the accountability review board came out with to correct it, to protect lives. i learned a lot, too, and what was interesting to me is the false lies that issa has been saying on national television, claiming that the former secretary of state, hillary clinton, had personally signed cables, denying increased security were absolutely false. all three witnesses testified that the departments of procedure, of the state department, is that the secretary, whoever the secretary is, that their name is on every cable. and the accountability review board said that that was true, and that she was not involved. it stopped at the deputy secretary level. if you re joining the benghazi story midstream, as i suspect some viewers are, the
about a report, so they didn t really get anywhere with the actual attack, any wrong doing coverup, so the independent report came out and they decided we ll have a hearing about the report because they didn t talk to the right people or, quote, silenced people or the report is part of the coverup, these generals with the sterling reputation were in on it with the white house, according to fox news. that was act three, act five, act ten, take your pick. fox is committed to the story line. if you watch tonight, the hearings were a blockbuster, it s all unraveling because this is the phoney story they tell their viewers, just like they told them romney was going to win in a landslide, it s the same thing. i can t help but notice, just to track through, and i don t want to drain you, dear viewers, emotional energy of benghazi, because the weeds are unedifying, but, you know, i can t help but notice even today at the hearing going back to these attacks that we saw back
and congress, your representatives, are listening. democratic from new york, on the house oversight committee and was at the hearing and eric boehlert, who has been tracking, painstakingly, the benghazi scandal on the right. congresswoman, i guess i ll begin with you. did you learn anything today at the hearing? there was compelling emotional testimony about what happened that night, the story of what happened that night is harrowing and dramatic and upsetting for a variety of reasons, not the least of which four americans ending up dead, the notion of people being trapped in a safe building that s burned to the ground. did you learn something new today? well, i learned that a terrible terrorist attack was turned into a political attack. and what i find so distressing, chris, is that when americans are attacked, some turn around and attack more americans instead of going after the terrorists, and i find it very
eric, i cannot help but notice that hillary clinton features quite prominently in the question today as i watched part of the hearing, in the graphic we showed. if i were disposed to have an uncharitable view of this enterprise, i might be led to believe that this was politically motivated to try to sully her in advance of what is perceived to be an inevitable white house run. this was going to be the lead bang shot, lead to impeachment for obama and derail hillary clinton s 2016 campaign. it didn t do either, and what the congresswoman talked about, they can t get off this train. the obvious place would have been the end of the election, the state department report, but fox needs this content. they need this phoney outrage machine. i literally don t understand why now. i ll tell you why. if i was tracking it, okay, the right wingers on my feed are tweeting me about benghazi, then there s a lull, then two or three weeks ago, everything i tweeted, benghazi, benghazi, benghazi.
house oversight committee and was at the hearing and eric beal ert, who has been tracking, painstakingly, the benghazi scandal on the right. congresswoman, i guess i ll begin with you. did you learn anything today at the hearing? there was compelling emotional testimony about what happened that night, the story of what happened that night is harrowing and dramatic and upsetting for a variety of reasons, not the least of which four americans ending up dead, the notion of people being trapped in a safe building that s burned to the ground. did you learn something new today? well, i learned that a terrible terrorist attack was turned into a political attack. and what i find so distressing, chris, is that when americans are attacked, some turn around and attack more americans instead of going after the terrorists, and i find it very unfortunate that they spent their time criticizing the military, the state department, former secretary of state