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Questions that need asking

Nicholas Kristof

Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013 | 2 a.m.

Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish. Clinton’s smooth and confident performance at Wednesday’s Senate and House committee hearings was fun to watch. When her would-be inquisitors asked serious questions, she gave serious answers. But when Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., full of bombast and faux outrage, accused the administration of initially misstating the nature of the Benghazi attack, she responded with table-pounding thunder: “What difference, at this point, does it make?” And when Sen. Rand Paul, ...

Eugene Robinson is a columnist for the Washington Post.

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By CarmineD (Carmine DiFazio)

Jan. 27, 2013

4:34 a.m.

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Hillary's words: "4 Americans are dead....What difference does it makes." Sec. Clinton didn't set the record straight and Americans have alot of unanswered questions. History will be the judge of Hillary, Obama and Benghazi. Not polls, media, and Congressional grandstanding.

CarmineD
By Warrior

Jan. 27, 2013

7:46 a.m.

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Questions that need asking, answers that need questioning. They say "the road to hell is paved with good intentions", also "hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works.". Lying to keep a colleague out of trouble, cheating to win an election, falsifying evidence, smoke screening reality by the politburo media to a people generally too good natured to know the difference is a clear indication America is on that highway.