Is Rand Paul Right About Benghazi?

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Is Rand Paul Right About Benghazi?

Hillary Clinton’s last hurrah at the State Department – her appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Benghazi – was outrageous in many respects, although the partisan fury of her Republican interrogators did more to obscure the facts than reveal them. However, perhaps their partisan zeal provoked her into the kind of response that hinted there was more to the attack than she could publicly admit. Under questioning by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), she threw up her hands and declared:

“With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. 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?”

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Rand was really the only one along with Ron who tried to make any serious effort to figure things out. Rand emphasized the lack of security at the embassy as well as the potential gun running to rebels in Turkey/Syria. I think he was trying to push his agenda of no useless intervention/foreign aid in a way that could seem to be plausible to the average American. Remember, I know some of you bash Rand for talking about how we should have had more security, but he was adamantly opposed to the intervention in the first place.
 
Remember, I know some of you bash Rand for talking about how we should have had more security, but he was adamantly opposed to the intervention in the first place.
Reactionaries always find ways to overlook that which doesn't fit their MO.
 
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