Saturday Politics - Hillary vs the Truth

It's Saturday politics and the hot topic is Hillary Clinton's testimony before the House Select Benghazi Committee. As I followed commentaries, one thing was apparent. Most people think Hillary wasn't touched by the Republican majority on the committee and that she was badly treated. ~~~~~ Wrong. That's the spin put on her testimony by a Democratic Party stuck with her now that Joe Biden has decided not to run -- and by the mainstream leftist media that would find a way to deify Mrs. Clinton no matter how much she lies to cover up her guilty acts. ~~~~~ What did the 11-hour session establish? By the way, she had coffee breaks and lunch. Ambassador Stevens and the Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, spent 11 hours under fire, being burned out of their diplomatic compound and dying. Don't cry for Hillary; remember what Americans who worked for her went through on that tragic night in Benghazi. ~~~~~ We learned from her testimony that : (1) Mrs. Clinton knew within an hour that the Benghazi attack was a pre-planned terrorist act. But Hillary lied to America for 8 days, saying it was caused by a video. The committee read an email she sent to her daughter Chelsea several hours after the attack began, telling her that an al-Qaeda-like group had killed the Ambassador. Hillary also told the Egyptian Prime Minister the day after the attack : “We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack. Not a protest.” (2) Hillary said she cared deeply about her "good friend" Ambassador Stevens : “I would imagine I’ve thought more about what happened than all of you put together. I’ve lost more sleep than all of you put together.” Really? She didn't lose sleep on the night of September 11, 2012 -- she testified that she went home to bed, saying she had to prepare for a rough rest of the week. (3) Mrs. Clinton testified that her "good friend" Chris Stevens didn't have her private email address or phone number, and said she could recall no conversations with him after she swore him in as Ambassador. The night of his death, she wrote an email with the subject line: “Chris Smith,” mixing up the deaths of Chris Stevens and diplomat Sean Smith. (4) Hillary exchanged hundreds of emails with Sidney Blumenthal, who was banned from the Obama administration for his corruption and a Clintonian past. Hillary said his emails were unsolicited. Chairman Gowdy corrected her, quoting her emails to Blumenthal : “You wrote to him, ‘Thanks and please keep them coming,’ ‘Greetings from Kabul and thanks for keeping this stuff coming, any other info about it?’ ‘What are you hearing now?’” Hillary then said the emails "began" as unsolicited. The truth is Blumenthal was Hillary's advisor - kept secret because it was against President Obama's direct order - and she routinely emailed him. Her denial is a lie. (5) Mrs. Clinton lied to defend her own conduct by saying Ambassador Stevens knew the risks of his job, accepted the risks, and died knowing those risks. She said Stevens “felt comfortable” in Benghazi. If this is true, why did the State Department team in Libya ask for more security 600 times. Hillary said she didn’t receive any of those requests, and blamed her security team for not granting more security. (6) The worst lie was Hillary's spin on Stevens' email asking whether the Benghazi compound would be closed, saying he was joking : “One of the great attributes that Chris Stevens had was a really good sense of humor, and I just see him smiling as he’s typing this because it’s clearly in response to the email down below talking about picking up a few ‘fire sale items from the Brits.’” When told the “fire sale items” were security barricades, she answered, “Well, I thought it showed their entrepreneurial spirit." ~~~~~ Dear readers, Charles Krauthammer nailed Hillary : “We’re not going to get the facts, we’re not going to get the real story underlying it. We’re living in an age where what you say and its relation with the facts is completely irrelevant." Trey Gowdy hopes to prove that facts count.