On 1/23/13, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the #Benghazi attacks where @HillaryClinton testified and was questioned. Predictably, she and Democrat senators tried to establish the @StateDept ARB report as the definitive final word on the attacks. (1/5) Image
At the time of the 1/23/13 Senate hearing, @BarackObama had already been re-elected so he saw little need to continue lying about protests over the anti-Islam YouTube video as the origin of the #Benghazi attack. Hillary was free to confidently use the "terrorism" word now. (2/5)
Senator @SenRonJohnson contrasted Hillary's current ease in acknowledging terrorism in #Benghazi with the weeks immediately following the attacks and @AmbRice46's Sunday talk show appearances when lying to voters was in Pres. Obama and Hillary's best political interests. (3/5)
Sen. Johnson: "But, Madam Secretary, 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? I mean, that was a piece of information that could have been easily obtained." (4/5)
Hillary: "Senator, you know, when you are in these positions, the last thing you want to do is interfere with any other process that is going on." To paraphrase: Telling a false #Benghazi story was justified because asking for facts from witnesses would be "interfering." (5/5)

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6 Oct
At the 1/23/13 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Senator @RandPaul coached @HillaryClinton on how to recognize the difference between frivolous spending requests and critical, urgent ones such as Amb. Stevens's cables pleading for adequate security in #Benghazi: (1/4)
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On 5/3/17 US House Resolution 2315 was introduced, seeking to posthumously honor the four victims of the #Benghazi attacks with the Congressional Gold Medal. The medal is given to individuals that have made a mark in American history or culture. (1/6)
The "Dear Colleague" letter describing H.R. 2315 reads as follows: “In view of the recent sixth anniversary of the September 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S Consulate and classified annex in Benghazi, Libya, (2/6)
it is important that Congress recognize those brave individuals that sacrificed their lives to defend our great nation and its values. To this end, we have introduced bipartisan legislation, H.R. 2315, to posthumously award (3/6)
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