you, in all the things that you ve covered on capitol hill, in all the investigations you ve seen whether or not they re national security matters, is it normal to have one witness in the chair for 11 straight hours? reporter: that is not normal. it s also not normal to have a bipartisan panel where they can t agree on the rules, where they don t go according to any kind of set procedure. and i m thinking back to iran contra, the investigation that i covered, and several of the 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.
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