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How Hillary Clinton’s Testimony On Benghazi Compares To George Bush’s Testimony On 9/11

CREDIT: ASSOCIATED PRESS, ANDREW BREINER
CREDIT: ASSOCIATED PRESS, ANDREW BREINER

The Select Committee On Benghazi ran all day Thursday, until 9:00 p.m. Former Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton spent just over eight hours of the day fielding questions about Sidney Blumenthal, her emails, and the 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

This investigation is the eighth to look into what happened in Benghazi, and the second to bring Clinton in for questioning. Committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) disparaged the previous committees for failing “to interview so many witnesses and access so many documents,” though he also admitted that the all-day questioning of Clinton failed to reveal anything new.

In all, Clinton has spent almost 14 hours being publicly questioned about Benghazi. After a horrific terrorist attack occurred on September 11, 2001, during George W. Bush’s presidency, he spent one hour testifying to the 9/11 commission. That hour of testimony took place in private, and without even the full committee in attendance.

Bush spent a comparatively tiny amount of time answering questions about the prevention and handling of the much larger attack. And that’s in spite of a great deal of evidence that Bush did not take threats of a terrorist attack by Osama bin Laden inside the U.S. seriously enough, and did not take appropriate steps to make such an attack less likely.

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