Graham: Clinton must testify on Benghazi before Kerry's nomination process

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must testify before Congress on the Benghazi issue before the Senate begins confirmation hearings on likely replacement Sen. John Kerry, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday.

Graham told “Fox News Sunday” that Kerry, D-Mass., agrees.

“He needs to know what (Clinton) says,” said Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Clinton has yet to testify before Congress about the deadly Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

The attacks in which U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed have raised questions and major concerns about security and intelligence prior to the attacks and the Obama administration’s public response.

Clinton was scheduled to give open testimony before House and Senate committees, but canceled her appearances Dec. 15 after getting a stomach virus, fainting and hitting her head, which resulted in a concussion.

Clinton is scheduled to return to work this week and resign from her post in the coming weeks.

“She has said she will (testify) and I know she will,” Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said in joining Graham on Fox.

President Obama nominated Kerry after U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew from the running for the job. She would have faced a difficult nomination process as a result of her public response to the Benghazi attacks. She said six days later they were “spontaneous” and part of a large reaction to an anti-Islamic video.

Officials later said the attacks were terror related. Rice said her response was inaccurate and that she was working on official talking points amid a fluid situation.

President Obama on Sunday repeated his assertion that the Rice criticism was really “politically motivated attacks” and added he was “puzzled” about why Republicans and others would come after her.

Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the president also said the State Department’s independent review of the incident accurately identified “severe problems in diplomatic security” and that “every single recommendation” would get implemented.

Though some mid-level officials have been removed in the aftermath of the report, Obama characterized the lack of security in Benghazi as “sloppiness” and “unintentional.”

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No more doctors' notes, Mrs. Clinton...

[pollyannaish]

I don't mean to be rude, but why is Lindsey Graham still there?

 

I don't disagree with him, but every time he speaks it feels like 2002.

[Valin]

10 reasons why Kerry is perfect for Obama's Sec. State!

 

 

[Valin]

I don't mean to be rude, but why is Lindsey Graham still there?

 

I don't disagree with him, but every time he speaks it feels like 2002.

 

The answer is simple. The inside the beltway establishment I believe can explain it best...SHUT UP! Now it should be understood that they mean this only in the most bi-partisan moderate way. Of course you are entitled to ask this question, but you must try to understand that they being the enlightened and having a much better idea of what you really want need and what is best for you are compelled in your best interests to strongly suggest you SHUT UP...and send money..,..lots and lots of money.