You better watch the hearing because you won’t see this stuff on the news.
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State Dept. Spokesman Patrick Ventrell is getting grilled by reporters on CSpan3
I’ll be bouncing between here, CSpan 3 and Twitter.
Twitter was made for stuff like this.
Don’t tweet too fast or you might get twitmo’d.
(voice of experience)
Live stream http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN3/
They haven’t started yet. I understand that Amanda Berry will be talking to the media in Cleveland in a little bit.
Anyone care to bet on which story gets more coverage today?
Greta Van Susteren @gretawire 2m
front row is Pat Smith, mother of Sean Smith is in front row…talking to @JudgeJeanine
I just try to keep up with what others write
Issa speechifying.
oops, didn’t see yours myiq 🙂
@SharylAttkisson just made a bunch of tweets about what Hicks will say
Q What was the answer?
Hicks: The answer was that the FAST team in Rota was being mobilized to come to Tripoli, – https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/332157440781074432
Sharyl Attkisson @SharylAttkisson 1m
She (Ms. Clinton) asks, How can we help? And I (Hicks) said, Well, we could use some reinforcements. And we have‑ we know we have wounded. -https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/332157572016660482
…and there would be a medevac flight coming down to pick up wounded.
Thought local interest news stories, such as the Gosnell murder trial, don’t warrant national media coverage. Guess it depends on what their agenda is.
I am watching Fox. 🙂
Elijah Cummings speechifying.
f*cking WHY??
He says *I* almost as much as Obama..
Hah – I just tweeted the same thing!
already do not trust cummings. does not want truth, just wants to protect backtrack bunch
It is important the wagons be circled BEFORE the trek begins.
Txsleuth @Txsleuth 31s
Hey why have this hearing.. Elijah Cummings knows all of the answers… right? pffffft
Ohhhh here goes Cummings. What a dick.
It’s all just ‘political’ he says.
Bad, bad, Daryl Issa, bad Republicans!
Calling the witnesses liars before they even speak.
Sonofabitch.
Agree. Isn’t Cummings the guy who claimed the Tea Partiers spit on the other Black guy on the steps of Congress?
What a tool!
Yes , Cummings is from Maryland , and yes he is a tool .
Saw a tweet saying Cummings was filibustering the whistleblowers. LOL
Oh snap!
Mark Thompson testifying now
(acting Deputy Asst Sec of State for Operations – Counterterrorsim Bureau)
CNN covering the hearing , at least for now .
DepressiveBlogger69 @AceofSpadesHQ 10s
Here’s what FEST is (the option the WH took off the table) http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3403300303.html …
And it was nixed from the get-go with very little information apparently. My question is who was it in the WH, did they even know what it entailed, and where was Bronco? They just pre-emptively and off the hip said no. This is why amateurs and PR guys should not run military or diplomacy.
Nordstrom choking up. He’s saying “It matters” — very damning and damaging to Hillary. These guys seem both sincere and also very pissed about being silenced and smeared. Let the chips fall where they may.
^^THIS^^
Elijah Cummings represents the parts of Baltimore City that have suffered the most from poverty and violent crime for decades with no improvement , and in fact is worse in that regard . Someone should ask him about that
Yes. Yes it does.
Hicks’ testimony is riveting. Sounds like he called in all the help he could think of asap.
Apparently MSNBC showed Cummings’ speech and nothing else.
Asshats.
“All the news that fits the narrative”. NBC news motto.
That’s certainly the truth. I so wish I could selectively remove all NBC/Comcast owned channels from my cable.
Did I hear use of chemical weapons?
Michelle Malkin @michellemalkin 10s
Hicks: 2nd wave of #Benghazi attackers came, team evacuated annex. Learned Amb. Stevens taken to hospital controlled by Ansar al-Sharia.
Here we go, now in Washington DC
I’m starting to tear up bec of Hicks
Me, too.
Because Obama and Hillary only see the 4 dead and the whole Benghazi incident as a big speed bump in their road to power. They don’t care about anything but covering their asses.
Bingo.
It’s amazing to me that Hicks is as composed as he is.
yeah , he looks like he’s starting to tear up too
Oh fuck me here comes Elijah Cummings again POS.
Filibuster attempt #2
Cummings is going to give me an apoplexy
WTF is Cummings up to . I don’t trust him , he is trying to soak up some sympathy and act as if this administration actually care
he says he feels their pain.
what a giant asshole!!!
if the planes take 20 hours to get ready, what are paying for. why could they not be scrambled? isn’t that what they are for?
cummings is a complete a&&
They KNEW it was the anniversary of 9-ll. They should’ve had planes ready all over the world. Period.
ohyeah, It’s Treytime
Lovin Trey !
Trey is my favorite too.
Ok, Gowdy…..kick some ass!
Yay, Trey Goudy on now.
Trey Gowdy asking questions now.
woo hoo
S.I.G.O.N.E.L.L.A.
that is all.
Maloney is full of Baloney !! Awww Hillary was attacked , did she die like Ambassador Stevens?
leave Hillary alooooone! wah wah!
Is Maloney shouting at Hicks?
WTF-the dems have thus far been abusive
here we go democrats more interested in covering backtrack bunch then finding out what happened.
no one I knows is blaming the military, they are blaming the ones who refused to let the military act
I feel sick. I’m gonna lay down for awhile.
hey get back here and suffer with the rest of us, lol.sob
I still want to vomit.
I don’t really want to, but I feel like I’m gonna.
Especially if I have to listen to Cummings again.
Is it true that the attorney for Mr. Thompson said that he is unwilling to speak with any democrat on the committee.
Smart guy.
so far the democratic members have not asked a question about what actually happened. are they interested at all.
What is Norton snortin? Crystal Cool Aid , that’s what !
Only the SOS could sign off on those facilities
they rushed in order to be able to spend the money that was in an Iraq fund and would have expired by Sept 30th. holy crap.
*headdesk*
Actually pretty typical of agencies, but it blows a big ass hole in the whole there was no money for security because of the R’s
bloviation and gasbaggery from john tierney. dear god
You misspelled douchebaggery.
Was going to say that, actually, but I didn’t feel like dealing with Darragh having a shit fit during the hearings.
Shorter Tierney to whistleblowers: Who ya gonna believe? CIA or your lyin eyes?
#Democrats suck
Are the Democrats ever gonna ask the witnesses a question that they have personal knowledge of?
Makes Watergate look like a 3rd rate burglary.
I got twitmo’d again – when will I learn?
did you hear the reason Ambassador Stevens went to Benghazi on 9-11? did it make sense to anybody here? Hilary Clinton wanted to make the compound a permanent facility, and the funds had to be used by 9-30 and there was a two week vacancy there.
Other countries and the Red Cross were pulling out to there, why would anyone at that time want to make it permanent post?
My tinfoil hat is on
Mine too
Jordan (OH) just got Hicks to admit that his State superiors told him not to cooperate with Congressional investigators. Wow.
New thread up, closing this one.