With a feuding Senate holding up approval of his successor, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday joked that he hoped he would be allowed “to get the hell out of town” and retire as planned. At an event honoring recently retired Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 74-year-old Panetta said…
On Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update with Seth Meyers yesterday, “Arianna Huffington” commented on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony, women in combat, and more. “I mean the last thing Rand Paul grilled that long was a possum,” she said of the line of questioning aimed at Clinton. She went…
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart lampooned the political theater of the recent hearing on Benghazi. He noted that Republicans at the hearing asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the same question repeatedly. Whether Clinton read a particular diplomatic cable from deceased Ambassador J. Christopher…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) toned down his criticism of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday afternoon, admitting on CNN that the Iraq war was a greater tragedy than the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. At a hearing on the attack in Benghazi earlier that day, Paul…
Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a tea party senator an earful during Wednesday’s hearing on the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya that left a U.S. ambassador dead. In the heated exchange with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), during which he claimed that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice…
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of the challenges posed by rising militancy after the Arab Spring as she appeared before US lawmakers Wednesday to be grilled about a deadly attack. “Benghazi didn’t happen in a vacuum,” Clinton said at the start of a Senate hearing into the…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will appear before lawmakers on January 23 to be quizzed about the deadly attack on a US mission in Libya, just days before she steps aside as top US diplomat. The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed Royce, announced the date in a…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in the hospital after a blood clot stemming from a concussion was discovered during a medical exam, reported the AP. Doctors found the clot during a follow-up exam for a concussion she had early in December. She is at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where doctors…
Defeated tea party-favorite Rep. Allen West (R-FL) suggested on Thursday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was only pretending to be sick and have a concussion to avoid testifying about the September attacks in Benghazi that resulted in the deaths of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The State…