"Her answers are inadequate, gave us excuses unsustainable: I reject the totally" Before the embrace when Hillary Clinton arrives in Congress. Then, however, Republican Senator John McCain, Obama political opponent of the government but a personal friend of the Clinton family, shoots to zero during the hearing of the Secretary of State on the assassination in Benghazi, Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans.
The Senators of the right attack without regard for the Secretary of State convalescent (and outgoing): Marco Rubio does so with diplomacy and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin accuses the government of having misled the Americans, start telling a story is not true (the attack the U.S. Consulate as street movement and not military operation of a terrorist group). Then starts Rand Paul, the Messenger of the Tea Party, who revives his reputation as a radical claiming that if he had been in the place of the President, he would have fired the Clinton for inability.
But Hillary, who had to postpone the hearing for a month of serious health problems (fainting, a concussion, the discovery of a small thrombosis) that have cost a hospital, did not seem at all a sick: lucid, lively and feisty as a few other times in the past, she has contended blow for blow, eventually forcing her accusers on the defensive: a lioness in the arena, albeit from a very weak position (internal investigations have revealed the many mistakes in Libya) she has dragged the dock the same parliamentarians who wanted to process her "We have done everything to help the new government to really take control of Libya, but Congress responded with references to our requests for support"
On the key issue - that of the late discovery of the terrorist nature of the attack - which fell on Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the ONU chosen by Obama to succeed the Clinton (but now Obama Choose Kerry), Hillary implicitly took distanced herself from the statements which Susan Rice had made to hot, after the killing of Stevens, the September 11, 2012: "I was just a feeling that it was a prearranged attack."
Hillary said she had not read the cablegrams in which they called for a strengthening of security in Benghazi. She said, sobbing, the hours spent in Andrews AFB, the arrival of the bodies of the victims, hugging their wives and children, she admitted that there were lack of information and errors of assessment. But she also argued forcefully that for decades U.S. diplomats are under attack around the world, there have been many victims and that many more lives have been saved.
Came to the last days of her term - a few day after parliamentary ratification, and will be sworn in her place John Kerry - the Clinton wanted to leave a strong mark: she not escaped by comparison, she has proudly claimed, from its great popularity, she had done everything possible to improve the safety of American diplomacy and called for a greater commitment to the U.S. in North Africa. If the White House many would be in the second row, she leaves a message clear: "From Mali and Algeria has opened a Pandora's box of stolen weapons in Libya. It 'a very dangerous situation and the fact that here are not parties to the attacks on American territory does not mean it can not happen in the future. "
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