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All Eyes On Hillary Clinton As She Testifies Before Benghazi Select Committee
Townhall.com ^ | October 22, | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 10/22/2015 6:19:32 AM PDT by Kaslin

Today is the day. After months, even years of anticipation, former Secretary of State and current Democrat presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton will testify under oath in front of the Benghazi Select Committee.

Clinton will not only testify about what happened on the night of September 11, 2012, but will be asked a series of questions about her use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. Since the Select Committee discovered her private server earlier this year, we've learned Clinton had at least 400 documents considered classified, with at least four deemed top secret, on her server. During a press conference at the UN earlier in March, Clinton denied having any classified information on her server, sent or received. She is under FBI criminal investigation as a result. 

In addition long time ally Sidney Blumenthal, who provided faulty intelligence to Clinton during her time at the State Department despite President Obama barring him from working in his administration, will reportedly be a heavy topic of discussion.

Breitbart News has learned that Blumenthal will factor heavily in the Committee’s questions for Clinton, who utilized the political adviser as her top source of Libya information despite the fact that Blumenthal did not seem to know much about the country.

Clinton, who pushed Blumenthal’s personal business interests in Libya, relied on intelligence that Blumenthal was getting from former CIA spy Tyler Drumheller. According to email releases, Blumenthal and Drumheller seemed to have been the main source of information, even as Clinton was actively intervening in the nation of Libya.  

Over the past few weeks, the Select Committee has come under heavy fire from Democrats after Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested during an interview on Hannity that the Committee was created to bring down Clinton's presidential poll numbers. Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings have been battling for weeks over the disclosure of information and both sides have expressed allegations of politicizing the issue. 

This week, Clinton's team has been on offense before her testimony, making repeated efforts to discredit the Committee's credibility. 

Hillary Clinton and her supporters are blistering the Benghazi committee ahead of her much-anticipated testimony Thursday, repeatedly questioning the GOP-led investigative panel’s “credibility” as the former secretary of state gears up for a potentially confrontational appearance.

On Wednesday, a super PAC supporting Clinton’s Democratic presidential campaign, Priorities USA, will begin running TV ads aimed at bolstering her image ahead of her appearance before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

Late last week, Clinton's top aide and long time confidant Huma Abedin appeared before the Committee in a closed door session.

The hearing starts at 10 a.m. et. 


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; benghazi; benghaziselectcmt; clinton; emailscandal; guilty; hillary; hillaryclinton
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21 posted on 10/22/2015 6:46:38 AM PDT by red-dawg (NO Prisoners.)
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To: red-dawg

22 posted on 10/22/2015 6:47:13 AM PDT by red-dawg (NO Prisoners.)
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To: Kaslin
It's make-or-break day for HilLIARy... and for Trey Gowdy.

"You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run"

23 posted on 10/22/2015 6:50:55 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: allendale

No order to stand down was needed. Only the U S president can give the order to cross an international border with military force without the permission of that country’s leader. So the question all along should have been ...where was Obama during this time period? (Sleeping?) Why wasn’t the required permission granted? Every time Obama hears someone ask who gave the non-existent stand down order, he probably just smiles.


24 posted on 10/22/2015 6:52:48 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Kaslin

Is there a live fed somewhere? TIA.


25 posted on 10/22/2015 6:54:09 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: Kaslin

She’ll just repeat and repeat the same old lies and BS we’ve heard for months, with attacks of amnesia when useful.

Only the FBI, IF it conducts an honest investigation, might produce damaging evidence.


26 posted on 10/22/2015 6:58:18 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Freee-dame

You have a point but it is likely the Commander asked permission to execute and was told to stand by. Would like to know who made the ultimate decision to not to intervene. Very much doubt it was Obama himself but someone very high up in his name.


27 posted on 10/22/2015 6:58:39 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Fester Chugabrew
The interesting thing about the video - it happened so fast, it was as if they had already identified it and had it on "stand by" to use in the event of some terrorist attack somewhere. Obama was stating AQ on the run, terrorism diminished etc. .... they knew if there was a terror attack that it would go against the lies they were telling the public prior to the election. I saw in a story (didn't save the link, darn it) where youtube was contacted quickly about the video & initially it was the 'wrong' one. "Someone" in my opinion, was sitting on this thing, waiting to use it if necessary to cover Obama's rear end .... then Benghazi happened.

Video maker, per Wiki:

In August 2013, Nakoula was released from prison to serve his remaining sentence in a halfway house, and then to be on probation for the next four years.

On 26 September 2013, he was released from the halfway house to the custody of Pastor Wiley Drake of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, California.

28 posted on 10/22/2015 6:58:46 AM PDT by Qiviut
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To: Kaslin

More theater for the ugly, nothing will come of it. Call me pessimistic.


29 posted on 10/22/2015 7:00:40 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Not a peep out of that guy!


30 posted on 10/22/2015 7:03:27 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: Kaslin

Watching it live on OAN.


31 posted on 10/22/2015 7:07:03 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER
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To: jpsb

Trey Gowdy reviewing the success of his committee and the stonewalling of the government.

Cankles looking fairly p!$$ed. Searching for an ashtray.

OAN


32 posted on 10/22/2015 7:11:07 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER
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To: Qiviut

It frosts my bagel to no end that our elected authorities would think us all so stupid as to believe their story, and be so mendacious as to blame us for “politicizing” what was obviously a massacre *caused by* politicizing.


33 posted on 10/22/2015 7:12:13 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I’m actually watching it live on BBC World News.....

...if they cut out, I know where to go.


34 posted on 10/22/2015 7:12:34 AM PDT by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: Guenevere
It is available on CSPAN now at this moment the insufferable Elijha Cummings is making opening remarks in full defense mode of Hillary blaming Gowdy for everything.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?328699-1/hillary-clinton-testimony-house-select-committee-benghazi&live

 
 
 
 
 
 

35 posted on 10/22/2015 7:21:39 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Hitlary nodding smugly as the criminal e-LIEja Cummins spews crap and runs interference.

Wasting valuable time. Shut him off.

Madame Secretary still nodding glumly.


36 posted on 10/22/2015 7:23:22 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER
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To: PoloSec

Beast making opening statements.


37 posted on 10/22/2015 7:29:54 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER
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To: Kaslin

38 posted on 10/22/2015 7:39:10 AM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: Steely Tom

>> I’m not saying she shouldn’t go down

Well, *I* am. I don’t want to see her go down, and I don’t want to see her exposed, either.


39 posted on 10/22/2015 7:43:09 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: 444Flyer

I watched and listened to her for a while, then I had to change the channel as I couldn’t take it anymore.


40 posted on 10/22/2015 7:44:16 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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