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Angry Clinton Explodes at Questioning on Libya Protest: ‘We Have Four Dead Americans…What Difference at This Point Does It Make?’

Jan. 23, 2013 10:48am Madeleine Morgenstern

Angry Clinton Explodes at Questioning on Libya Protest: What Difference at This Point Does It Make?

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton erupted at Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) during his questioning Wednesday over whether there were protests in Benghazi, Libya before the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission.

Johnson was insisting that the American people were “misled” about protests that supposedly occurred over an anti-Islam video, similar to those that had taken place at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo hours earlier on Sept. 11, 2012. It was later determined there had been no protests in Benghazi and the assault was labeled a terrorist attack.

“Do you disagree with me that a simple phone call to those evacuees to determine what happened would have ascertained immediately that there was no protest?” Johnson asked Clinton during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. “That was a piece of information that could have been easily, easily obtained, within hours if not days.”

“Senator, when you’re in these positions, the last thing you want to do is interfere with any other process going on — ” Clinton started to answer.

” — I realize that’s a good excuse,” Johnson cut in.

“Well, no, it’s the fact,” Clinton said sharply, adding that there are questions being raised “even today” about what precisely happened in Benghazi.

She continued, “Now, we have no doubt they were terrorists, they were militants, they attacked us, they killed our people. But what was going on and why they were doing what they were doing, is still — ”

“No, no, no, again, again — we were misled that there were supposedly protests and then something sprang out of that, an assault sprang out of that and that was easily ascertained that that was not the fact and the American people could have known that within days,” Johnson said. “And they didn’t know that.”

“With all respect, the fact is we have four dead Americans was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans,” Clinton shouted. “What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator.”

“What difference at this point does it make?!” whether there was a protest. Clinton yells at Ron Johnson. Damn.

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) January 23, 2013

#SecClinton yells at Sen Ron Johnson on whether there were protests b/f the #Benghazi attack “What difference at this point does it make?!”

— Dana Hughes (@dana_hughes) January 23, 2013

Hillary just erupted over talking points controversy, saying “what difference does it make?” and that issue is to prevent it happening again

— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) January 23, 2013

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Comments (759)

moreteaplease
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:55am
JRook
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:45am
“There are real issues facing the US that require unbiased, fact driven, analytical adults to solve.”
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Of which there are none in this administration. Tell us something we don’t already know.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:59am
  luv the Icon.
  whoo whooo whooo whooo whooo whoooo
  
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- ABoggledMind
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:02pm
  haha have to second that, gotta love the stooges!
  
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manageral
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:54am
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, called the security measures in place as “robust.” Just days after September 11. She lied as the President Lied to win an election. When will the Media get involved?

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Red_Blooded_American
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:54am
“or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans”

Even still she misleads us to believe that this was an unplanned terrorist attack. I am sick of all of the lies and half truths! You ma’am are correct 4 americans are dead and they were violently murdered during a planned and coordinated attack on US Soveriegn soil by a terrorist group. If you want us to believe that this wasn’t a cover-up, then stop the lies, stop the CYOA regimen and get to the bottom of this.

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txannie
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:54am
She REALLY wants to distance herself from the Obama version. The point is that she does not want to take the heat on obama’s version of just a spontaneous event as put forth by the obama admin. She let him take the lead, found out what a lie it was and decided to distance herself immediatly instead of taking the fall for all this. This is a run-up to her running in 2016….her position will be “I was with the great obliviot until he lied about Americans being killed by terrorists and threw me under the bus to take the rap…I believed in him, too. He fooled me too. Now, if/when you elect me, I will take his good intentions, lose his bad junk and be/do better than him. I am a true American and can save this country that obliviot has run down”. You just watch. Bill is guiding this ship and working hard to save the Clinton legacy from his monica misdeads by putting hillary in and the pair becoming a historical first for her as a female president and them as a married couple presidency. Just as soon as they found out obama lied about the bengazi thing hillary dissappeared and resigned under the guise of health problems. bah….the bat is tougher than an old boot but does not want the stink of this admin to rub off on her.

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pudssweetie
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:53am
Hillary is in the hot seat and she knows it and explains why she had the outburst. I came across this article which I find very interesting and may explain Hillary’s outburst.

http://gopthedailydose.com/2013/01/22/breaking-new-evidence-shows-hillary-a-mastermind-behind-gunwalker/

If true, then it is very possible she was also behind what happened in Benghazi.

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JB4JS
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:52am
Aw, poor dear! To Mrs. Clinton it’s really no biggie. After all, numerous citizens with ties to the Clintons died mysteriously during the Clintons’ Administrations. So now there are four more, and Hillary can’t be bothered with the details because what “difference at this point does it make?”

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:51am
“You’re right- it doesn’t make a difference now”. REALLY? Is that your position? Can you repeat that please, just to be clear!

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The Big Mick
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:51am
“Serpantine, Hilly, Serpantine”!

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spfoam1
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:49am
Following Hillary’s logic, I ask what difference does it make why 3000 people were murdered on 911?

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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:56am
  It makes a great deal of difference if you use it to manipulate the public mood by suggesting that we should respond by invading a country that in fact had nothing to do with the attack, resulting in billions of unfunded debt and 4000 more American lives lost.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:57am
  SPF: Exactly. Utter nonsense . Unless you are an Obama Lefty who either A.) Blames Bush/ any conservative in the house or B.) screams ” Forward” to their robot followers to distract and ignore any responsibility for Obama mistakes and C.) can count on their Lap Dogs in the MSM to ignore or excuse or Blame Bush for the entire mess . WAKE UP, AMERICA. These Obama people are TOXIC .
  
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barber2
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:49am
Apparently, the Obama War on Conservatives has escalated to this point. I have NEVER seen such despicable, impolite and less dignified behavior by ANY previous administration . The Chicago thugs have done America a serious disservice. This will not end peacefully BY THEIR DESIGN. Thanks, Obama Administration, you are the biggest ” secret ” thugs to ever hold office and your gang of Chicago-styled Democrats bullies is just emulating your tactics.

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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:00pm
  Mr or Ms BARBER2,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Oh, sure you have. Here, I’ll remind you.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHXq8TRejow
  
  It is so.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:05pm
  SENSELESS: I have read your comments before and , thus, would never take any of your clueless suggestions. That is always so.
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:49am
Hmmm, I wonder if the Nazis should have used this Defense at Nurnberg?
“We’ve got 6 million dead Jews, what difference at this point does it make?”

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Centralsville
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:49am
She gets angry when you point out the incompetence of their administration to call terrorism by it’s name. To call them out on their attempted cover-up. A weak administration run by women and a bastard child.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:49am
It’s been 4 Months. WHO is responsible? YOU? or SOMEONE ELSE? They were taking down the fence. Why was no one shot when they breached American soil? Did anyone tell them to ‘knock it off’?

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Nairbmack
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:48am
Caught in a lie. Why did your office announce that it was the muslim Youtube video that caused an uprising when that wasn’t the truth?

Oh boy, I think it’s time for Hillary to have another convenient headache so she can skip work again.

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RLJMAH
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:48am
And the winner is……..Hillary Clinton, this years best actress award for a cover up film goes to Hillary….well played, Hilly, well played

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Depressed_American
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:48am
It’s important BECAUSE the White House and the State Department LIED to the American People……

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Whatmeworry-never
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:48am
What does it matter Mrs. Clinton? It matters to the families of the slain, to the AMerican people, we deserve the truth, to heck with your careers. You politicians are no better than “We the People” remember that and you would do your jobs properly.

“Do you disagree with me that a simple phone call to those evacuees to determine what happened would have ascertained immediately that there was no protest?” Johnson asked Clinton during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. “That was a piece of information that could have been easily, easily obtained, within hours if not days.”

“Senator, when you’re in these positions, the last thing you want to do is interfere with any other process going on — ” Clinton started to answer.

WHAT? you did not want to interfere with the process? So what processes do you guys have going on that you are trying to hide? More gun running? More enpowering the Islamic Radicals that you guys are thinking you are using to forward your Communist Regime when in reality you are beeing used by them, they seem to be getting the better end of the stick.

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ABoggledMind
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:46am
So basically she stalled for all that time just so she could say; oh it doesn’t matter now that its been this long anyways.

What a fake woman. She just expects it to disappear because she says it doesn’t make a difference. If she was going to truly answer all of those questions to the best of her abilities she would have testified a week after it happened! But no! What difference does it make now anyways!? hah what a huge joke this whole deal is!

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Beenduped
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:46am
‘What difference does it make?’ Isn’t there a person sitting in jail or wherever now…..being prosecuted for “said’ VIDEO that supposedly started the the fake protests in Cairo and the ME? which none had seen or knew about until Benghazi…… 1st Amendment rights anyone? But showing OBL being killed with Obama’s blessings is A OK and won’t cause protest? This is a lying Sham!!! what about the gun running to Syria? And the 20,000 RPG’s that just happened to disappear in Libya which we knew about but conveniently weren’t watching???? We are being LIED to on a Daily Basis on the Economy, ObamaCare, Etc…and the American people should be VERY ANGRY!!

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RaydocX
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:45am
what utter crap to feign outrage about the question regarding the protest.
Madam Secretary. YOUR BOSS pushed the protest theory… strategem, really, and the WEEKS that were lost pretending it was over a video cost investigators time and evidence.

You’re right… four Americans are dead… at least two of those Americans COULD have been saved if you and your boss had chosen to ACT. Maybe if you had exploded at BHO those Americans would not have been sacrificed.

So drop the act you’re playing at now and answer the questions honestly if you hope to have a PRAYER of surviving a presidential run in four years… otherwise the questions about what could have been done and WHY you chose to let Americans die will doom your quest to be the first female Commaner in Chief.

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Clownzilla
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:44am
Come on! That’s like saying “Why does it matter anymore” after somebody is killed in a drunk driving accident. Clinton is a snake.

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The Big Mick
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:44am
Ahhh, our “Worst Looking SecState since Henry K” is Channeling Bart Simpson:
“I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, you can’t prove I did it.”
Oh for a really decent Alternate Reality Parallel Universe in which the Truly Brave and Free analogs of Americans drug her Doppleganger into the Street to be beaten lifeless back in LITTLEROCK!

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Beachmastermax
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:43am
We know the government lied to the people, we want to know when you (Hillery) were aware that lies were being told. Government lies kill alot more than four people. That is the difference it makes.

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spirited
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:43am
She has a lot of blanking nerve!
That’s right Maaaam;” WE have four dead Americans!!!” !

>IT DOES MATTER ~~>exactly Stop taking responsibity……ONLY to obscure, blame and talk about ‘tomorrow’.
No tears Maaam.

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demsrtraitors
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:42am
when was the last time anyone heard a liberal be honest? secondly, Would obama sit in front of a monitor and let these Americans die if they were black? Remember that POS was so quick to speak up when his black professor was questioned by White law officers.

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