[h=1]Hillary Clinton called to testify before Benghazi committee TWICE in the next eight weeks as Republicans sharpen knives over her email server and alleged cover-ups[/h]
PUBLISHED: 22:28, 23 April 2015 | UPDATED: 23:03, 23 April 2015
The chairman of a House committee investigating the 2012 terror attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Thursday called former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to testify at a public hearing next month.
The move will set up a high-profile showdown over Clinton's use of a private email account and server while she was secretary of state – and allow the GOP to rehash questions about her performance before and after the deadly assault on a diplomatic compound and a CIA annex nearby.
South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy said he wants Clinton to testify the week of May 18 and again before June 18.
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HOT SEAT: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will testify in public about the Benghazi debacle, and about her exclusive use of a home-brew email server while she was secretary of state
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NO COMMENT: Hillary stared ahead and walked wordlessly Tuesday through a Washington, DC airport, refusing to acknowledge her first campaign-trail question about the deadly Benghazi terror attacks in 2012
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DEADLY: The September 11, 2012 Benghazi terror attacks killed four Americans including the US ambassador to Libya
The first hearing would focus on Clinton's use of private emails, and the second on the September 2012 attacks that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
'With her cooperation and that of the State Department and (Obama) administration, Secretary Clinton could be done with the Benghazi Committee before the Fourth of July,' Gowdy said in a statement.
It is necessary to call Clinton to appear twice 'because the committee needs to ensure we have a complete and responsive record and all the facts before we then substantively question her on the Benghazi terrorist attacks,' Gowdy said.
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- Presidential candidate will face tough grilling about the 2012 terror attacks in Libya
- Republicans sought closed-door, transcribed interview before public hearing but Clinton's lawyer said she was ready to testify
- Chairman predicts 'Clinton could be done with the Benghazi Committee before the Fourth of July'
- Former secretary of state expected to sit in the hot seat on Capitol Hill in the week of May 18 and again before June 18
PUBLISHED: 22:28, 23 April 2015 | UPDATED: 23:03, 23 April 2015
The chairman of a House committee investigating the 2012 terror attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Thursday called former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to testify at a public hearing next month.
The move will set up a high-profile showdown over Clinton's use of a private email account and server while she was secretary of state – and allow the GOP to rehash questions about her performance before and after the deadly assault on a diplomatic compound and a CIA annex nearby.
South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy said he wants Clinton to testify the week of May 18 and again before June 18.
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HOT SEAT: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will testify in public about the Benghazi debacle, and about her exclusive use of a home-brew email server while she was secretary of state
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NO COMMENT: Hillary stared ahead and walked wordlessly Tuesday through a Washington, DC airport, refusing to acknowledge her first campaign-trail question about the deadly Benghazi terror attacks in 2012
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DEADLY: The September 11, 2012 Benghazi terror attacks killed four Americans including the US ambassador to Libya
The first hearing would focus on Clinton's use of private emails, and the second on the September 2012 attacks that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
'With her cooperation and that of the State Department and (Obama) administration, Secretary Clinton could be done with the Benghazi Committee before the Fourth of July,' Gowdy said in a statement.
It is necessary to call Clinton to appear twice 'because the committee needs to ensure we have a complete and responsive record and all the facts before we then substantively question her on the Benghazi terrorist attacks,' Gowdy said.
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INFAMOUS: 'The fact is we had four dead Americans,' Clinton said during a 2013 Senate hearing. 'Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?'
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NOT FORGOTTEN: U.S. Ambassader the Libya Chris Stevens was the first to die in Benghazi, and was seen by Libyans as a moderate – angering anti-American hardliners from radical Islamist groups
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Clinton dodged questions about the Benghazi attacks on Tuesday after landing in Washington, D.C. following a two-day presidential campaign swing in New Hampshire.
Daily Mail Online asked her in the Reagan National Airport terminal if she had made mistakes handling the crisis, and when she would be ready to start answering reporters' questions.
Clinton, steely-eyed, looked forward and walked silently without uttering a word.
Gowdy's action comes a day after the GOP-led panel signaled its final report could slip to next year, just months before the presidential election. Clinton is widely considered the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president.
Gowdy spokesman Jamal Ware said on Wednesday that Gowdy wants to complete the panel's work by the end of the year, but said factors including witness availability, compliance with document requests and security clearances 'could continue to impact the timing of the inquiry's conclusion.'
A lawyer for Clinton said she is prepared to answer questions publicly regarding the Benghazi attacks and her email use as soon as possible.
'There is no reason to delay her appearance or to have her testify in a private interview,' lawyer David Kendall said Wednesday in a letter to Gowdy.
Clinton has twice testified before Congress on the Benghazi matter, telling lawmakers in 2013 that she takes responsibility for missteps by the State Department in the months leading up to the assault.
But Clinton insisted that requests for more security at the diplomatic mission in Benghazi didn't reach her desk, and reminded lawmakers that they have a responsibility to fund security-related budget requests.
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CASUALTIES: US Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith (left), US Navy SEAL Glen Doherty (center) and US Nacy SEAL Tyrone Woods (right) perished in the Ansar al-Shariah attacks in Benghazi
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PROTEST: Congressional interns carried photographs of Woods, Doherty and Smith during a Special Operations Speaks Political Action Committee news conference in July 2013
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SMOLDERING: The fires in Benghazi have gone out, but not the Republican Party's zeal to tarnish Hillary Clinton's political legacy with new questions about how it happened and why some details were allegedly covered up
Gowdy's letter includes more than 100 questions he and other lawmakers may pose to Clinton about her email use, including why she considered using a private server and what was done to vet the companies or individuals who set up the server.
And still lingering, too, are uneasy questions about why Clinton initially blamed the Benghazi attaks on a spontaneous protest sparked by an anti-Muslim YouTube video produced in the United States.
American intelligence knew during the attack that it was launched by a terror group, Ansar al-Whariah, which is affiliated with al Qaeda.
Months later, following a concussion that delayed her congressional testimony about Benghazi, she testified in a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
'The fact is we had four dead Americans,' Clinton told the senators. 'Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans?'
'What difference at this point does it make?'
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, senior Democrat on the Benghazi panel, said the focus on email comes after 'Republicans' multi-year search for evidence to back up their Benghazi conspiracy theories has turned up nothing.'
Cummings accused Gowdy and other Republicans of a 'coordinated attempt' to 'drag out this taxpayer-funded search for anything they can use against Hillary Clinton, while their political arm raises campaign funds off the deaths of four Americans.'
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Daily Mail Online asked her in the Reagan National Airport terminal if she had made mistakes handling the crisis, and when she would be ready to start answering reporters' questions.
Clinton, steely-eyed, looked forward and walked silently without uttering a word.
Gowdy's action comes a day after the GOP-led panel signaled its final report could slip to next year, just months before the presidential election. Clinton is widely considered the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president.
Gowdy spokesman Jamal Ware said on Wednesday that Gowdy wants to complete the panel's work by the end of the year, but said factors including witness availability, compliance with document requests and security clearances 'could continue to impact the timing of the inquiry's conclusion.'
A lawyer for Clinton said she is prepared to answer questions publicly regarding the Benghazi attacks and her email use as soon as possible.
'There is no reason to delay her appearance or to have her testify in a private interview,' lawyer David Kendall said Wednesday in a letter to Gowdy.
Clinton has twice testified before Congress on the Benghazi matter, telling lawmakers in 2013 that she takes responsibility for missteps by the State Department in the months leading up to the assault.
But Clinton insisted that requests for more security at the diplomatic mission in Benghazi didn't reach her desk, and reminded lawmakers that they have a responsibility to fund security-related budget requests.
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CASUALTIES: US Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith (left), US Navy SEAL Glen Doherty (center) and US Nacy SEAL Tyrone Woods (right) perished in the Ansar al-Shariah attacks in Benghazi
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PROTEST: Congressional interns carried photographs of Woods, Doherty and Smith during a Special Operations Speaks Political Action Committee news conference in July 2013
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SMOLDERING: The fires in Benghazi have gone out, but not the Republican Party's zeal to tarnish Hillary Clinton's political legacy with new questions about how it happened and why some details were allegedly covered up
Gowdy's letter includes more than 100 questions he and other lawmakers may pose to Clinton about her email use, including why she considered using a private server and what was done to vet the companies or individuals who set up the server.
And still lingering, too, are uneasy questions about why Clinton initially blamed the Benghazi attaks on a spontaneous protest sparked by an anti-Muslim YouTube video produced in the United States.
American intelligence knew during the attack that it was launched by a terror group, Ansar al-Whariah, which is affiliated with al Qaeda.
Months later, following a concussion that delayed her congressional testimony about Benghazi, she testified in a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
'The fact is we had four dead Americans,' Clinton told the senators. 'Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans?'
'What difference at this point does it make?'
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, senior Democrat on the Benghazi panel, said the focus on email comes after 'Republicans' multi-year search for evidence to back up their Benghazi conspiracy theories has turned up nothing.'
Cummings accused Gowdy and other Republicans of a 'coordinated attempt' to 'drag out this taxpayer-funded search for anything they can use against Hillary Clinton, while their political arm raises campaign funds off the deaths of four Americans.'
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Hillary’s State Department approved the deal and Russia bought Uranium One. Putin can now sell this nuclear fuel to Iran.
Can someone explain how the Clintons are not corrupt?
Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda coup, after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh leader’s bid to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports democracy. Mr. Clinton’s public declaration undercut both American foreign policy and sharp criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record...
Within two days, corporate records show that Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom.
The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr. Giustra, analysts said.
Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges.
Mr. Giustra was invited to accompany the former president to Almaty just as the financier was trying to seal a deal he had been negotiating for months.
Can someone explain how the Clintons are not corrupt?
Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda coup, after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh leader’s bid to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports democracy. Mr. Clinton’s public declaration undercut both American foreign policy and sharp criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record...
Within two days, corporate records show that Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom.
The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr. Giustra, analysts said.
Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges.
Mr. Giustra was invited to accompany the former president to Almaty just as the financier was trying to seal a deal he had been negotiating for months.
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Mitt Romney weighs in and calls it bribery!
HH: Governor Romney, I know you’ve had a chance to read, I assume you’ve had a chance to read the Jo Becker/Mike McIntire New York Times piece today about the cash flowing into the Clinton Foundation from the Russians as they got control of Uranium One. What’s your reaction to this story?
MR: You know, I’ve got to tell you, I was stunned by it. I mean, it looks like bribery. I mean, there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20% of America’s uranium production to Russia, and then it was covered up by lying about a meeting at her home with the principals, and by erasing emails. And you know, I presume we might know for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn’t wiped out thousands of emails. But this is a very, very serious series of facts, and it looks like bribery."
HH: Governor Romney, I know you’ve had a chance to read, I assume you’ve had a chance to read the Jo Becker/Mike McIntire New York Times piece today about the cash flowing into the Clinton Foundation from the Russians as they got control of Uranium One. What’s your reaction to this story?
MR: You know, I’ve got to tell you, I was stunned by it. I mean, it looks like bribery. I mean, there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20% of America’s uranium production to Russia, and then it was covered up by lying about a meeting at her home with the principals, and by erasing emails. And you know, I presume we might know for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn’t wiped out thousands of emails. But this is a very, very serious series of facts, and it looks like bribery."
Obama, got his start as a Chicago "community organizer" at Acorn. In 1992 he led voter registration efforts as the director of Project Vote. Obama also represented ACORN as an attorney in a 1995.
ACORN filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on November 2, 2010, effectively closing the organization.
Obama also worked on a grassroots campaign in Altgeld Gardens to advocate for removal of asbestos from the complex flats.
Despite his efforts the residents still have a growing concern about the number of deaths annually from cancer and other diseases that may be related to environmental hazards of their industrial neighborhood. Altgeld Gardens is located in one of the most dense concentrations of potentially hazardous pollution sources in North America. Many of the landfills that surround the project are unregulated, and some are still active. Since most of these landfills as well as many industrial plants are located along the waterways surrounding the area, have been assessed as having water quality unfit for human consumption and recreation.
Obama then went on to become POTUS.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-responds-clinton-cash-asking-more-cash_929073.html
The Hillary Clinton campaign is fundraising off new reporting in the Peter Schweizer book Clinton Cash.
"There's a new book out -- written by a former Republican operative with ties to a Koch-funded organization -- that uses allegations and conspiracy theories to stitch together a false narrative about Hillary without producing a single shred of evidence," writes Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in an email to supporters.
Here's what you need to know from some of the reviews so far:
TIME magazine says one of the book's primary accusations "is based on little evidence" with allegations "presented as questions rather than proof."
Yahoo News points out that the author "marshals circumstantial evidence" only to find "no smoking gun."
We're only two weeks into the election and we're already up against these baseless attacks.
If we don't fight back now, we send a signal to our opponents that we'll shrivel in the face of whatever will follow.
This is an important moment in this campaign.
Podesta asks the supporters join the campaign and ask others to do so, too. And then, at the bottom of the email, is a Donate button:
Note to Podesta: Goebbels would have been proud of you.
The Hillary Clinton campaign is fundraising off new reporting in the Peter Schweizer book Clinton Cash.
"There's a new book out -- written by a former Republican operative with ties to a Koch-funded organization -- that uses allegations and conspiracy theories to stitch together a false narrative about Hillary without producing a single shred of evidence," writes Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in an email to supporters.
Here's what you need to know from some of the reviews so far:
TIME magazine says one of the book's primary accusations "is based on little evidence" with allegations "presented as questions rather than proof."
Yahoo News points out that the author "marshals circumstantial evidence" only to find "no smoking gun."
We're only two weeks into the election and we're already up against these baseless attacks.
If we don't fight back now, we send a signal to our opponents that we'll shrivel in the face of whatever will follow.
This is an important moment in this campaign.
Podesta asks the supporters join the campaign and ask others to do so, too. And then, at the bottom of the email, is a Donate button:
Note to Podesta: Goebbels would have been proud of you.
It's a vast right wing conspiracy!
Whoops!
Unraveling: Liberal Common Cause demands Clinton Foundation, Hillary audit
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/u...nton-foundation-hillary-audit/article/2563565
"Connecting dots on the Drudge report" -- aaaktard :missingte
Whoops!
Unraveling: Liberal Common Cause demands Clinton Foundation, Hillary audit
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/u...nton-foundation-hillary-audit/article/2563565
"Connecting dots on the Drudge report" -- aaaktard :missingte
