The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Two Departures and a Grilling
Peggy Noonan
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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Thousands of Demo Voters Released From Prison 
A month ago, we reported that Barack nObama's Justice Department was making plans to release 6,000 "nonviolent" federal prisoners in what is essentially one of the largest jailbreaks in U.S. history. That release happened over the weekend. The vast majority were incarcerated for drug offenses (not just marijuana), and as Gary Bauer writes, "20% of the 6,000 offenders just released were also in jail for illegal firearms possession while committing drug offenses." So much for gun control and background checks. Word is the administration is considering another 8,500 prisoners for release next year. And you thought Bill Clinton issued a lot of pardons on the way out of office.
According to The New York Times, "The releases result from decisions last year by the [United States Sentencing Commission], an independent body that sets guideline ranges for federal sentences. Until 2005, those guidelines were mandatory; now they are advisory, but remain a starting point for judges."
Meanwhile, Paul Sperry of Investor's Business Daily reports, "Internal government documents I've obtained show that the administration figures as many as 43% may re-offend within five years of release. The recidivism rate might be even higher than that, prison officials warn, because the administration hasn't provided probation officers the resources to properly supervise the waves of inmates it's releasing prematurely."
A third of the released prisoners are illegal aliens that will be deported (he promises!). But many of the other 4,000 will create more headaches for victims of crime and more work for police. Speaking of police, crime is on the rise this year, and many blame nObama's racist police rhetoric for the spike. Great time to release 6,000 criminals. As we've said before, we understand the need for real prison and sentencing reform, and some of these 6,000 are probably worthy of freedom. But releasing a bunch of prisoners could come back and bite nObama just like Willie Horton did for Michael Dukakis. -The Patriot Post
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Kentucky Derby Goes to GOP
Could the gubernatorial race in Kentucky be a harbinger for the 2016 election? Riding the same momentum that has propelled Donald Trump and Ben Carson to the forefront of the GOP presidential primary, Republican Matt Bevin, also a political outsider, won Kentucky's governors race Tuesday. Confounding pollsters who expected Bevin's Democrat challenger to prevail, Bevin won by about nine percentage points. This turns Kentucky, a traditionally Democrat stronghold dating back 44 years, into a red state because Democrats now control only the state's House, and weakly at that. Furthermore, as National Review's John Fund points out, Bevin's lieutenant governor-elect is Jenean Hampton, a self-made woman who worked herself up from poverty, retired from the Air Force at the rank of Captain, and is a Tea Party candidate endorsed by Rand Paul. Oh, did we mention she is the first black woman to be elected to a Kentucky statewide office? Let the Left ponder that one.
This was just one of the conservative victories across the nation, and it shows a voter dissatisfaction with the top-down leftist policies coming out of Washington. For example, many Kentucky voters threw their support behind Bevin because their health care premiums spiked thanks to nObamaCare. Who says local politics don't matter?
-The Patriot Post
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Democrats' Minimum Wage Demands Keep Going Up
Democrat politicians have been raising their demands on how high to raise the minimum wage. Democrat socialist Bernie Sanders supports hiking the national wage to $15 an hour — double the current minimum wage of $7.50. Hilly Clinton told an audience in Iowa Tuesday, "Twelve [dollars an hour] would give us a good solid increase." It was just two years ago that Democrats were being "progressive" by seeking to raise the minimum wage to $10.10, with Barack nObama being one of the most vocal supporters. While the inflating policy proposals probably make for great headlines and campaign promises (Democrats will give you free stuff by forcing your employer to pay you more than your job is worth!), even Democrat voters know when enough is enough. Among the notable local elections around the country, voters in Portland, Maine, rejected a proposal to raise the city's minimum wage from the federal minimum to $15 an hour — over concerns that it would hurt small business, just as it already is in Seattle. The city in the liberal Northeast will still raise its wage — it will go up to $10.10 Jan. 1 — but it shows how some Democrats are out of step with their base. And remember: Democrats are for minimum wages, Republicans are for maximum wages. People should be paid as much as possible, just not through government mandate.
-The Patriot Post
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nObama Demands School Let Boy Shower With Girls Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (writing under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll) surely would be astounded to discover that modern liberalism has taken his work not for what it is — a surrealist allegory brimming with social and political insights — but instead as a blueprint for destroying the institutional foundations of society, and crushing any acknowledgment of objective truth. 
In this liberal utopia we call America, Rachel Dolezal is black but Clarence Thomas is not (at least not an "authentic" black man); Bruce Jenner is a woman despite having male genitals; and gender is determined by feelings rather than by DNA. This has led to such bizarre developments as Bruce "Call Me Caitlyn" Jenner holding the title of Glamour Magazine's "Woman of the Year" while simultaneously being one of the most decorated male Olympians of all time.
It's one thing to watch such circus sideshows play out in popular culture, but it's another thing entirely to have mental illnesses not only indulged by government but protected under the law. Yet that is exactly what is occurring under Barack nObama.
Earlier this week, the nObama administration issued an administrative ruling involving a dispute between Illinois' Township High School District 211 and a transgendered student, demanding the male student (born a male but "identifying" as a female) be allowed to use the girls' locker room to shower and change clothes, alongside actual female students. Failure to comply with this directive, the nObama administration threatened, will result in federal civil rights lawsuits and the loss of Title IX funding for the district. -The Patriot Post
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Cruz Just Made An Enormous Move Against The Muslim Brotherhood
{Peter Brown} ~ The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamist organization founded in Egypt in 1928 that could be finding itself in trouble soon with the United States Congress... Robert Mueller, former director of the FBI, said about the group during testimony in 2011: “I can say at the outset that elements of the Muslim Brotherhood both here and overseas have supported terrorism.” One of the aims of the Muslim Brotherhood is to make sure Islamic states are in fact ruled by Sharia, or Islamic law. Its most famous slogan is “Islam is the solution.” Although multiple members of the organization are on the nObama administration terror list, thus far the US has not yet officially designated the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization..
Is Ayatollah Khamenei trying to Kill P5+1 Nuke Deal?
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ While Congress was debating the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, the nObama administration warned legislators that any changes to the deal would destroy the complicated agreement... But now that Iran has supposedly accepted the deal, its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is demanding changes that, if agreed to, would basically render the agreement moot. Khamenei made the demands in a letter reportedly sent to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Oct. 21, and later published on Khamenei’s website. The question raised is, will the P5+1 negotiators make more concessions to Iran? And if they don’t, will Iran walk away from the deal? Dr. Lawrence A. Franklin, a former Iran desk officer in Donald Rumsfeld’s Defense Department, wrote for the Gatestone Institute (run by former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton) that the Supreme Leader is making the unreasonable demands partially to deny Barack nObama the legacy he so desperately wants. http://lidblog.com/is-ayatollah-khamenei-trying-to-kill-p51-nuke-deal/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=bc7637e902-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-bc7637e902-291705165.
Clinton Scandals Threaten Her White House Run
{Roger Aronoff} ~ While Republicans are deciding among themselves whether to open a separate investigation into Hilly Clinton’s email controversy, evidence keeps piling up that shows serious problems ahead for Mrs. Clinton... Yet the media continue feasting on what they perceive as turmoil in the GOP presidential race. When looked at objectively, Mrs. Clinton’s problems should prove far more consequential than anything facing the Republicans. And current polls reflect that problem. The media are still basking in Hilly’s great October turnaround. Not only did she have what they considered to be a strong debate performance, but Vice President loose lips-Joe Biden announced he wasn’t running for the presidency, and Hilly, they assure us, scored a big victory in the Benghazi hearings. Game over. The march to the White House can proceed unimpeded. But a closer look at what should be very troubling issues to the media, and to Democrats who want a candidate without so much baggage, reveals much that they should be concerned about. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/clinton-scandals-threaten-her-white-house-run/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email110515&utm_medium=email.
ISIS: From Where Does its Evil Flow?
{Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.)} ~ We have recently seen ISIS add new techniques to its repertoire on how to brutally execute victims... Apparently, beheadings and burning victims alive have lost their luster. Recent executions have been undertaken that provide further insights into the depth of this group’s depravity. Neither a victim’s age nor sex serves as a barrier to ISIS savagery. After putting a father to death, ISIS executioners strapped explosives to his baby, detonating them to demonstrate to new recruits the devastating impact on the human body. Last month a tank was used to execute a Syrian soldier by running over him. Another technique allowed ISIS the opportunity to combine an execution with its campaign to destroy non-Islamic related antiquities. Three prisoners were tied to columns of one of the world’s most important ancient sites-the Arch of Triumph in Palmyra, Syria. The Arch and the prisoners were then blown up. ISIS proudly publishes videos and photos of these barbaric acts..
Corruption runs in the family at American neurorehab centers
{Jack Rodolico and Laura Starecheski} ~ Everyone agreed on one thing: Jessica Klurfeld threw her liver and onions on the floor. What happened next is where the stories diverged... Klurfeld, a woman with autism and a rare genetic disorder who was then 23 years old, said an attendant at Lakeview NeuroRehabilitation Center in New Hampshire “told me to eat off the fucking floor.” A second staff member who witnessed the 2013 event backed Klurfeld’s story. The attendant in question said that while Klurfeld did eat some of the food off the floor, she had not ordered the young woman to do it. According to hundreds of confidential emails and reports shared with reporters, this was one of dozens of incidents that worried Klurfeld’s mother, Linda Blumkin, a retired antitrust attorney living in New York City, 320 miles away. Blumkin pleaded with New Hampshire regulators to look into her daughter’s treatment at Lakeview, a facility near the Maine border – a place so remote that staff simply called it “The Mountain.”.
For the first time in 67 years, Egypt supports Israeli bid at the UN
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Egypt made history this week, supporting Israel’s bid for membership in the Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Affairs at the United Nations... It was the first time Egypt voted in support of Israel since it backed the 1948 United Nations vote establishing the Jewish nation. CBN The vote passed by a wide margin, with 117 member states in favor; 21 abstentions, among them Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tunisia, Morocco, Qatar, and Kuwait; and Namibia the only country opposing the Israeli bid. “The vote today proves there are some countries who find it more important to bash Israel than to contribute to the international community, like Qatar who abstained on the vote even though it was a vote on its own acceptance to the committee,” the Israeli Mission to the United Nations said in a statement. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/11/05/for-the-first-time-in-67-years-egypt-supports-israeli-bid-at-the-un/.
Hilly $6 Billion Missing – How Could She Just “Lose” That Money?
{rickwells.us} ~ For the Democrats, a presidential candidate has to represent the worst of America, embody the furthest thing from traditional American values and possess a parasitic and exploitative nature... Their self-serving irresponsibility and extreme dishonesty, as well as an extreme hatred for our constitutional republic as it was originally constructed cannot be in doubt. In order to be chosen to represent that Marxist, end America as we know it organization, one must be, to put it simply and succinctly, a low-life scum bag. Nobody represents those “ideals” more wholly than Hilly Clinton. As the criminal Clintons are insulated from the an awareness by the sleeping, distracted American people by the puppy dog media, Clinton’s criminal actions are being ignored and any attempts to investigate immediately dismissed as politically motivated and unjustified. Putting aside the obvious and indisputable mountain of evidence that Clinton committed treason by selling favors as Secretary of State and has engaged in conflicts of interest, criminal obstruction of justice, espionage, perjury and a host of other crimes related to her “public self-service,” wouldn’t just being historically bad with money be grounds enough to dismiss one as a viable presidential candidate? Clinton wants us to vote for her based upon her indoor plumbing, but women are generally fairly good at budgeting and at least knowing where they money goes even if it is being spent irresponsibly. http://rickwells.us/archives/21778#prettyPhoto.
nObama Starts Trans-Pacific Trade (TPP) Clock With “Notice of Intent”
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ This is important and those who understand the TPP deal need to begin pressuring your congress creeps immediately. President nObama has delivered the required “Notice of Intent” letter to congress... The White House is legally bound to tell congress they intend to enter into a trade-deal. nObama has just made the text available to the public. In 60 days he can sign the agreement and send trade agreement to Congress for debate, vote and approval. Congress is allowed 90 days for debate after presidential signature. The letter below officially starts the clock. President nObama is hoping to use Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays as strategic tools to run out the clock on any efforts to provide WH pushback on the anti-American deal:.
nObama And hanoi-Kerry’s New Terrorist Allies In Tehran...
It’s a lucky thing for Hussein nObama that he’s not really an American and that he’s not an Israeli either. The chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” don’t really bother him... The Iranians aren’t targeting Kenya or Indonesia or his rumored eventual home in the safe compounds of New Zealand. For the rest of us, including his comrades in Chicago and even Oprah in her home for wayward whales in Hawaii, his and hanoi-John Kerry’s decision to give nuclear weapons to the terrorist regime is a problem. It’s proving to be just what everyone outside of the regime and the sellout Congress recognized it would be, a one way ticket to nuclear war. Iran hasn’t even taken delivery of the bribe money nObama and hanoi-Kerry promised them for allowing us to convert them into an existential threat yet. They’re already kidnapping more Americans and demanding more compensation. The Iranians aren’t stupid. They recognize they’ve got a couple of real regime assets in hanoi-Kerry and nObama and only fifteen months to make the most of it. Everything could change if a Republican gets elected. They’ve got to take advantage of having a terrorist sympathizer in the White House and Iranian Valerie Jarrett pulling his strings. http://rickwells.us/archives/21816.
Liberal College Faculty Agree to Shred the Constitution … Literally
{Campus Reform} ~ I guess it was only a matter of time until Project Veritas, of the ACORN videos fame, went back to colleges. Now they've gotten administrators at Vassar and Oberlin to agree to feed the U.S. Constitution through a paper shredder because it’s "triggering." ... The Veritas reporter even managed to get one of the administrators doing the act on film. "When this idea came up in our newsroom about campus administrators shredding the Constitution because it’s a trigger against students, we didn’t think people would actually fall for it,” James O'Keefe says at one point in the video. “We underestimated just how stupid and politically correct these people are.” http://eaglerising.com/25853/liberal-college-faculty-agree-to-shred-the-constitution-literally/.
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Two Departures and a Grilling
Peggy Noonan
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A general rule of politics: After 10 years they are going to throw you out. But the vote was overwhelming after a charmless, dour campaign. The incoming prime minister is the 43-year-old son of charismatic former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Justin Trudeau has been a snowboard instructor, schoolteacher, bartender, bouncer, speaker on environmental and youth issues, and advocate for avalanche safety. Sensing “generational change” and gravitating toward “a life of advocacy,” he entered politics and served two terms in Parliament. He has been head of the Liberal Party two years. He is handsome, has a winning personality, exhibited message discipline during the campaign, and is a talented dancer. There’s a sense we in the West have entered a new screwball phase. Watching Mr. Trudeau’s victory speech, I remembered the columnist Dorothy Thompson reaction on watching the newly inaugurated President John F. Kennedy. There’s something not fully stable there, she thought. But we have to let history do what it enjoys doing, which is surprising us.
A general rule of politics: After 10 years they are going to throw you out. But the vote was overwhelming after a charmless, dour campaign. The incoming prime minister is the 43-year-old son of charismatic former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Justin Trudeau has been a snowboard instructor, schoolteacher, bartender, bouncer, speaker on environmental and youth issues, and advocate for avalanche safety. Sensing “generational change” and gravitating toward “a life of advocacy,” he entered politics and served two terms in Parliament. He has been head of the Liberal Party two years. He is handsome, has a winning personality, exhibited message discipline during the campaign, and is a talented dancer. There’s a sense we in the West have entered a new screwball phase. Watching Mr. Trudeau’s victory speech, I remembered the columnist Dorothy Thompson reaction on watching the newly inaugurated President John F. Kennedy. There’s something not fully stable there, she thought. But we have to let history do what it enjoys doing, which is surprising us.
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loose lips-Joe Biden’s decision not to run for president left me sad. He would have enlivened things. He has always reminded me of what Democrats were like when I was a kid—kind of normal and earthy and fun. They did not spend their time endlessly accusing people of being sexist-racist-homophobic-gender-biased persons of unchecked privilege. They would have thought that impolite.
loose lips-Joe Biden’s decision not to run for president left me sad. He would have enlivened things. He has always reminded me of what Democrats were like when I was a kid—kind of normal and earthy and fun. They did not spend their time endlessly accusing people of being sexist-racist-homophobic-gender-biased persons of unchecked privilege. They would have thought that impolite.
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I can’t imagine loose lips-Joe Biden ever needed an image consultant to coach him on how to be himself. As if he had a choice.
I can’t imagine loose lips-Joe Biden ever needed an image consultant to coach him on how to be himself. As if he had a choice.
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Going in, the question about Hilly Clinton and the Benghazi Committee was: How will she come out? Would she emerge triumphant, bruised, stronger, exposed? How would the Republicans, who’ve proved themselves largely hapless in grilling those involved in various scandals, do this time? In 2013, in front of a Senate committee, Mrs. Clinton blunted attacks with her dramatic rhetorical question: “What difference, at this point, does it make?” When I watched I thought, “She just won.” But afterward “What difference does it make?” became a kind of shorthand for high-handed theatrics. It is hard to judge the impact of most Clinton performances in real time because Mrs. Clinton is a practiced actress and it takes people time to figure whether they believed the act or not.
Going in, the question about Hilly Clinton and the Benghazi Committee was: How will she come out? Would she emerge triumphant, bruised, stronger, exposed? How would the Republicans, who’ve proved themselves largely hapless in grilling those involved in various scandals, do this time? In 2013, in front of a Senate committee, Mrs. Clinton blunted attacks with her dramatic rhetorical question: “What difference, at this point, does it make?” When I watched I thought, “She just won.” But afterward “What difference does it make?” became a kind of shorthand for high-handed theatrics. It is hard to judge the impact of most Clinton performances in real time because Mrs. Clinton is a practiced actress and it takes people time to figure whether they believed the act or not.
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Her goal was clearly to take all comers and end this. She wanted to make the Republicans look like tiresome obsessives, which usually wouldn’t be hard.
Her goal was clearly to take all comers and end this. She wanted to make the Republicans look like tiresome obsessives, which usually wouldn’t be hard.
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She took her seat in the hearing room handsomely coiffed, beautifully made up, wearing a sober, dark high-end pantsuit. Young journalists tell me I’m not allowed to describe how she’s dressed or whether she looks tired (no, well-rested) or stressed (no, cool as a cucumber). I tell them if they’re going to be journalists they can’t start out as word cops. Nor should they in their work put politically correct limits on their ability to describe a scene. If you mean to be a craftsman, you cannot start your career as a censor.
She took her seat in the hearing room handsomely coiffed, beautifully made up, wearing a sober, dark high-end pantsuit. Young journalists tell me I’m not allowed to describe how she’s dressed or whether she looks tired (no, well-rested) or stressed (no, cool as a cucumber). I tell them if they’re going to be journalists they can’t start out as word cops. Nor should they in their work put politically correct limits on their ability to describe a scene. If you mean to be a craftsman, you cannot start your career as a censor.
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Chairman Trey Gowdy (nondescript suit, hair under control) wasted no time: “We are going to pursue the truth in a manner worthy of the memory of the four men who lost their lives.” He set a tone not of theatrics but factuality. He defended his committee’s investigation by asserting previous congressional probes had not been “serious” or “thorough” because they lacked sufficient access to relevant documents.
Chairman Trey Gowdy (nondescript suit, hair under control) wasted no time: “We are going to pursue the truth in a manner worthy of the memory of the four men who lost their lives.” He set a tone not of theatrics but factuality. He defended his committee’s investigation by asserting previous congressional probes had not been “serious” or “thorough” because they lacked sufficient access to relevant documents.
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This undercut Mrs. Clinton’s ability to make points by repeating, as she has recently, that this is the eighth investigation. Mr. Gowdy cleverly brought up Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s witless comment suggesting the purpose of the investigation had been to damage her popularity. He blunted every charge and complaint he knew she was about to make.
This undercut Mrs. Clinton’s ability to make points by repeating, as she has recently, that this is the eighth investigation. Mr. Gowdy cleverly brought up Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s witless comment suggesting the purpose of the investigation had been to damage her popularity. He blunted every charge and complaint he knew she was about to make.
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She sat blank-faced, furiously thinking.
She sat blank-faced, furiously thinking.
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Elijah Cummings, the panel’s ranking Democrat, said in his statement the investigation is political, a “taxpayer-funded fishing expedition.” Having watched him in hearings the past few years I cannot determine whether his chronic umbrage is real or feigned.
Elijah Cummings, the panel’s ranking Democrat, said in his statement the investigation is political, a “taxpayer-funded fishing expedition.” Having watched him in hearings the past few years I cannot determine whether his chronic umbrage is real or feigned.
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In Mrs. Clinton’s opening statement she spoke slowly, in a calm, lower-register voice. When she spoke with personal warmth of the late ambassador, Chris Stevens, she was actress-y in a way you’d like if you like her and not if you don’t.
In Mrs. Clinton’s opening statement she spoke slowly, in a calm, lower-register voice. When she spoke with personal warmth of the late ambassador, Chris Stevens, she was actress-y in a way you’d like if you like her and not if you don’t.
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The preamble was meant to posit her as a person who felt authentic pain at what had happened in a way that suggested she’s suffered enough.
The preamble was meant to posit her as a person who felt authentic pain at what had happened in a way that suggested she’s suffered enough.
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She then perhaps cheekily pivoted to what we can learn from the tragedy. This was meant to establish her deep experience and command and was occasionally off-point: “Retreat from the world is not an option.” She evoked the Reagan-era deaths of 258 Americans in the Beirut Marine barracks and, more cleverly, security failures in the administrations of her husband and of George W. Bush. That was meant to make Benghazi—only four dead—look comparatively insignificant.
She then perhaps cheekily pivoted to what we can learn from the tragedy. This was meant to establish her deep experience and command and was occasionally off-point: “Retreat from the world is not an option.” She evoked the Reagan-era deaths of 258 Americans in the Beirut Marine barracks and, more cleverly, security failures in the administrations of her husband and of George W. Bush. That was meant to make Benghazi—only four dead—look comparatively insignificant.
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The first hour-and-a-half seemed to focus on niggling things, as if no one could get their hands on the thread. Viewers at home may have given up. Then the pace quickened. There were hundreds of requests regarding security issues in Benghazi in 2012, and Mrs. Clinton said not one reached her desk. This is remarkable. A secretary of state who supported a military action that unleashed chaos and sends her friend, the ambassador, into that chaos has no awareness of his requests for more security? Sidney Blumenthal had her personal email address but Chris Stevens didn’t?
The first hour-and-a-half seemed to focus on niggling things, as if no one could get their hands on the thread. Viewers at home may have given up. Then the pace quickened. There were hundreds of requests regarding security issues in Benghazi in 2012, and Mrs. Clinton said not one reached her desk. This is remarkable. A secretary of state who supported a military action that unleashed chaos and sends her friend, the ambassador, into that chaos has no awareness of his requests for more security? Sidney Blumenthal had her personal email address but Chris Stevens didn’t?
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There were substantive fireworks when Rep. Jim Jordan suggested the administration used a protest over an anti-Islam video as a cover story for what Mrs. Clinton knew to be a planned and deliberate terrorist attack. He suggested a motive: The attack came less than two months before the 2012 election. He presented proof she knew Benghazi wasn’t a popular protest about a video. She never really answered the charges, falling back on quickly unfolding events, confusion, a fluid situation. She dodged, and it was obvious. “I wrote a whole chapter about this in my book,” she attempted. She pretended the line of questioning was an insult to those who died. No, it was an insult to her. She was passive-aggressive: “I’m sorry that it doesn’t fit your narrative, Congressman.” She later spoke of how wounding it is to have one’s assertions received with such skepticism. This was unpersuasive.
There were substantive fireworks when Rep. Jim Jordan suggested the administration used a protest over an anti-Islam video as a cover story for what Mrs. Clinton knew to be a planned and deliberate terrorist attack. He suggested a motive: The attack came less than two months before the 2012 election. He presented proof she knew Benghazi wasn’t a popular protest about a video. She never really answered the charges, falling back on quickly unfolding events, confusion, a fluid situation. She dodged, and it was obvious. “I wrote a whole chapter about this in my book,” she attempted. She pretended the line of questioning was an insult to those who died. No, it was an insult to her. She was passive-aggressive: “I’m sorry that it doesn’t fit your narrative, Congressman.” She later spoke of how wounding it is to have one’s assertions received with such skepticism. This was unpersuasive.
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How did she do? How did they do? The Republicans were able interrogators. For Mrs. Clinton it was mixed. At moments she was poised and in command, at others more scattered and scrambling. She has considerable faith in her talent for double talk. She suffered through and survived, and will soon be saying what she wanted to say: I took any and all questions, there is nothing to add, the issue has been addressed. Next.
How did she do? How did they do? The Republicans were able interrogators. For Mrs. Clinton it was mixed. At moments she was poised and in command, at others more scattered and scrambling. She has considerable faith in her talent for double talk. She suffered through and survived, and will soon be saying what she wanted to say: I took any and all questions, there is nothing to add, the issue has been addressed. Next.
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