It Makes A Difference, Hillary

Remember this?

But there was, less expectedly, a scene that will surely be replayed in attack ads and echoed (and possibly distorted) in the Republican primary campaign, assuming that Clinton does run. It came in an exchange with Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin. Like many of his colleagues, he goaded. (“I realize that’s a good excuse,” he said when Clinton talked about not interfering with investigations.) She lost her patience when he said, not for the first time, that she could have found out what was going on at the consulate easily enough if she wanted to.

Clinton: With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Johnson: I understand.
Clinton: 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? 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. Now, honestly, I will do my best to answer your questions about this. But the fact is that people were trying in real time to get the best information….But, you know, to be clear, it is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we’ll figure out what was going on in the meantime.

“What difference, at this point, does it make?” In regard to the Republican obsession with Susan Rice’s “Meet the Press” appearance, that is a reasonable question. Perhaps frustration was also driving Clinton, but that’s not how she framed it. What she went on to say is not so controversial: Chase them down first, keep this from happening again...The line alone, though, sounds painfully dismissive...

I've now seen this:

Mike Huckabee

Are you ready for Benghazi, round two?…Rep. Darrell Issa is reopening the investigation into the deadly attack on our consulate in Libya. And this time, he has three new witnesses who threaten to dismantle an alleged stone wall put up by the Obama Administration. They’re all top officials who were in positions to know what happened. It’s already been reported that deputy Libya mission chief Gregory Hicks thought it was a terrorist attack from the get-go, and he said his jaw hit the floor when he heard UN ambassador Susan Rice blame it on an anti-Islamic YouTube video. And CBS learned that, incredibly, the administration never convened its Counterterrorism Security Group, the one group that knows all the resources. I don’t know if this will spell the downfall of the Obama White House or Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes, as some predict. But there’s nothing more toxic to a political career than the slow, steady drip of a cover-up gradually being uncovered. Oh, and by the way, the guy who made the YouTube video? He’s still in prison.

I guess there may yet be a difference.

But America's liberal wing doesn't think so.

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