[TheRealThing]

What a complete travesty of the workings of our democracy. Every last citizen has been defrauded by this pseudo proceeding of strawmen, evasions and lies. In the end, it boiled down to the same old story. Hillary Clinton blaming a lack of congressional funding for the whole thing. I recall the White House offering this excuse shortly after the scandals broke and typically, they stayed with their story. Can somebody on here think of a single thing the liberals know how to do other than throw money at our problems? And, of course, it's those damnable republicans that won't fund our endeavors overseas and therefore, it is they who are ultimately culpable.

So, let me get this straight. A former first lady and controversial lawyer from Arkansas. Gets a senatorship bought for her in New York. And then gets named the Obama Secretary of State. Goes on the record with the following;

First, the buck stops with her and her department with regard to the four slain diplomats, and the failings of the state department to see to their safety, even though we have a raft of correspondence proving they had asked for help over and over.

Second, the secretary never saw any cable or email leading up to the attacks, even though 'said buck' stopped with her. So, what are we saying here, employees of the US State Department are all email dysfunctional and therefore exonerated by default? Anybody else confused yet?

Third, real time video was on all the White House monitors in the Egyptian Embassy uprising but, there was none to be found for Benghazi even though TWO drones are known to have been circling over the Benghazi Compound for nearly SEVEN hours and said drones were equipped with the capability to send real time video to the situation room in the White House. (Hillary was at the White House during this time BTW) Charlene Lamb is on record with her sworn testimony as having watched the Benghazi affair in real-time, as is CIA Director General David Patraeus, who then suddenly felt compelled to resign. As have State Department Security Chiefs Charlene Lamb and Eric Boswell, with pay of course. Of course to my knowledge, the fact that Doherty and Woods were in communication with a number of department officials and the US military in the region via cell phone and radio during the attacks wasn't brought up. Now that's my idea of an inconvenient truth.

Fourth, absolutely nobody has been charged with the responsibility for the murders of the fallen, or the security failures of her department, even though there are a number of survivors of the attacks that have never been identified or questioned by her department, as of over the past 140 days now, after the attack. I mean, we can't have any witnesses running around blowing the administration's story out of the water now can we?

Fifth, even though she has assumed personal responsibility she insisted on blaming the "intelligence community" and possibly the 'fog of war'.

Sixth, despite volumes of verifiable secure military communications traffic, before during and after the attacks on the compound, there was no order coming down to deploy any of our military assets that by all accounts were well within range?

Seventh, then there are the two strawmen, the FBI and the Review Board. Who can say they really understand the workings of the FBI, that obscure federal enforcement agency? Regardless of how innocuous and meaningless their investigation of Benghazi turns out to be, nobody will get up in their face but, if they did, all that would happen is somebody would step up (with pay and medical for life) and fall on his sword, ala Charlene Lamb and Eric Boswell. If that's a bad deal for them somebody, would have to explain the way it works to me. How about the Review Board? The best way I know to defuse a volatile situation at the national level is to appoint a committee or review board. That way nobody gets held accountable. If the R B comes down with a finding, according to Hillary, (hundreds if times during her laughable testimony) that settles the matter.

She's stonewalling, and Obama (at the time in a very close presidential race) was more concerned about the public's perception of whether Commander-In-Chief Obama, actually had the middle east firmly under his control or not.