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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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1 posted on 10/22/2015 6:19:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

With MSM help, she’ll come out on top.


2 posted on 10/22/2015 6:23:10 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Kaslin

It would be nice if they had something to ask her about that she wasn’t given heads up ahead of time for.
Dems will kiss her butt cheeks and give praise, but no questions beyond how she is holding up to this vast right wing conspiracy.


3 posted on 10/22/2015 6:24:05 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Steely Tom
With MSM help, she’ll come out on top.

Yep and HUGE. Already this morning the media is saying that the GOP Congress (not a handful of idiot congressmen)admits the cmte was in place soley to tank Hillary in the polls.

4 posted on 10/22/2015 6:25:05 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Kaslin

Afraid it’s just gonna be another exercise in pointed questions by Repubs that go unanswered being countered by lib dems saying it’s a witch hunt................not inferring she’s a witch either so don’t go there. :)


5 posted on 10/22/2015 6:26:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Steely Tom

I watched two veteran Navy Seals on FNC vow to expose her. When might that happen?


6 posted on 10/22/2015 6:26:31 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Kaslin

Total waste of time.

Biden bowing out tells it all. The fix is in.

Suck it peasants!!!!


7 posted on 10/22/2015 6:28:02 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: Kaslin
Mumbo-Jumbo, Inter-Agency, Review Board, What Difference, Political...

Run out the clock.

I wish Trey would ask her about her operation "Zero Footprint".

I don't have high hopes for anything new today.

8 posted on 10/22/2015 6:28:39 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
I watched two veteran Navy Seals on FNC vow to expose her. When might that happen?

Oh, I'm not saying she shouldn't go down. Any ordinary person, or Republican who'd done what she's done, would be on their way to federal prison at this point.

I just don't see our side figuring out how to do it.

Thanks to that GOP moron who blathered about the politics of the investigation, we're f-ed.

9 posted on 10/22/2015 6:29:28 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Kaslin

The Republicans should have questioned the Commander of the 6th Fleet as to who gave the order to stand down. The 6th Fleet , maintained in the Med at a cost of over $10 billion/year was no doubt monitoring the situation in Benghazi and would under normal circumstances its ships should have been steaming at flank speed toward Benghazi and the on board Marines and Seals should have been preparing to intervene. Someone very high in the Administration ordered them to stand down. Who and why?


10 posted on 10/22/2015 6:30:16 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Romans Nine

Biden bowing out tells us Obama’s FBI will give her a pass; bad judgement, not criminal they’ll say.


11 posted on 10/22/2015 6:30:48 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Steely Tom

You betcha


12 posted on 10/22/2015 6:31:32 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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To: Kaslin

Obviously there is no honor left in this country.

How many people have died due to HRC’s lust for power/money?

Of all those effected no family member has done anything in retaliation?

Self preservation is the highest goal these days.


13 posted on 10/22/2015 6:32:48 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: Kaslin
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.

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The FBI is investigating this, not the Benghazi committee. They may ask why there were NO Benghazi-related emails for two months after the murders took place in the 55K docs she gave to State, but investigating the email/server issue is not the committee's charter. Hilly would love it if the questioning got balled up in this ... you'd here the same cr@p .... it was "allowed", she made a mistake, etc. etc. They MUST stay away from this and press her on why she denied Ambassador Stevens the security he requested, if not begged for ... and why she made a call to the WH, but no calls to DOD or anyone else, trying to get help for those she left to die.

14 posted on 10/22/2015 6:34:30 AM PDT by Qiviut
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Wow, and I am supposed to care? This woman and her husband are two of the more despicable characters on the American political scene. If I had done half of what either of them has done I would be incarcerated somewhere. This is all a sham...would not surpise me if she skates and the American sheeple elect her President. We have continued to slide down the death spiral as a nation for a long time now. So sad.
Freegards
LEX
15 posted on 10/22/2015 6:34:47 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Steely Tom
A couple of weeks ago, I saw two local blondie newsreaders report that Clinton sent her book to "her GOP rivals." This was after they read of a controversial comment attributed to Ben Carson and they gave the constipated look of disgust. After that, both made off-the-cuff comments including "Good for her (or something similar)." It reminded me of a high school journalism experiment.
16 posted on 10/22/2015 6:35:58 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: Qiviut
Oops ...

you'd here hear the same cr@p

17 posted on 10/22/2015 6:36:07 AM PDT by Qiviut
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To: Kaslin

The slimy eel is difficult to pin down.


18 posted on 10/22/2015 6:39:23 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: ConservativeStatement

A couple of weeks ago, I saw two local blondie newsreaders report that Clinton sent her book to “her GOP rivals.” This was after they read of a controversial comment attributed to Ben Carson and they gave the constipated look of disgust.


Ben Carson’s take on his gift book (if you haven’t seen it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPSKQnIU4zU


19 posted on 10/22/2015 6:40:36 AM PDT by Qiviut
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To: Qiviut

I want to know whose idea it was to blame the attack on an incendiary video. Also, is the maker of that video still in jail?


20 posted on 10/22/2015 6:44:21 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
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