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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShe testified for 11 hours before the Benghazi Committee
https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/22/451012235/clinton-endures-an-11-hour-grilling-before-benghazi-committee
Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, Dan Scavino and Stephen K. Bannon are cowards and TFG is the biggest coward on this terrestrial ball.
A special large dose of cowardice and hypocrisy on Mark Meadows part. Representative Mark Meadows, was singing a very different tune in 2014, when Republicans opened a barrage of investigations targeting the Obama administration in the run-up to the midterm elections, by saying, Really what most Americans want is that justice is served.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/how-trumps-defenders-now-approached-benghazi-back-then/600556/
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lisa58
(5,754 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)and culpability of the TFG. I also see her testimony as a continuation of the respect for the institutions of our system of government. The ability to stand for questioning and testify is part and parcel of constitutional accountability as well as serving as a mechanism for the clarification of actions of governmental officials.
The fact that the simple act of testifying becomes a brave action rather than expected one illuminates a deep seated lack of respect for our whole Constitutional framework. As a lawyer she knew how the system is supposed to work and ,while she had nothing to hide, she bowed to the requirement of testimony. It amazes me how far the other party has allowed fundamental government oversight to atrophy. It seems we have now come full circle with her work on the Watergate Committee where Executive Privilege met its match.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Although the other side didn't exactly "allow oversight to atrophy." They've been deliberately destroying it and at the same time increasing the authoritarian powers of the presidency, beginning in the last century but revving up big time with Bush II.
Hillary really has been a witness through this remarkable history. And John Dean's been writing about the growth of authoritarianism and abuses of power in the Republican Party durng the same time.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)word. Deliberate destruction is much better and more accurate. Her history is incredible and John Dean was right on the money. Great points.
sprinkleeninow
(20,136 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)you know what a person respects (for real) you know most of what he's about.
Skittles
(152,965 posts)the took all they had to give and make them look like the fucking vindictive assholes they are
Pas-de-Calais
(9,889 posts)Than the totality of the GOP
StClone
(11,679 posts)Do you think a bunch of wackjobs woke one day to realize gee Hilary Clinton is a monster!
NO! One of the most experienced, qualified, and knowledgeable Presidential candidates was taken down by a decades long, well-planned, heavily funded character assassinations of all time.
sprinkleeninow
(20,136 posts)ancianita
(35,813 posts)They're not even man enough to show themselves and answer to the nation they still want to ruin.
Mark bullyboy Meadows, Kash bagman Patel, Dan twitterman Scavino, Steve nihilist Bannon, the sick rot hiding from the light of democratic rule of law.
betsuni
(25,135 posts)Champp
(2,114 posts)The whole freaking corrupt G.O.P. and it's Q whackos, even if you added in their intimate and darkside dark-op Russian troll and bot buddies.
How DEPLORABLE to be a cowardly, traitorous, lying Republican. America farts in your general direction. And then America will lock your lying, cheating, betraying asses up in THE SLAMMER.