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In an interim progress report on the September 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, five H stanley termoska ouse committees call former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other high-ranking State Department officials responsible for reducing security levels at the consulate, contradicting the testimony Clinton gave before Congress.The interim report -- released by Republicans on the House Armed Services, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight and Government Reform Committees -- reaches three major conclusions.First, the committees Republicans conclude that Clinton approved security reductions at the consulate, pointing to evidence such as an April 2012 State Department cable bearing her signature. The cable was a formal request from then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz for more security. In her testimony before Congress in January, Clinton said, With specific security requests they didn t come to me. I had no knowledge of them. House investigators talking to new Benghazi whistleblowersKerry mourns first diplomat killed since Benghazi The interim report also charges that White House and senior State Department officials attempted to protect the State Department from criticism by altering accurate talki stanley website ng points drafted by the intelligence community. For instance, the report says that, after a Sept. 15, 2012 meeting, administration officials removed references to the likely participation of Islamic stanley mug extremists. Ltyw Congress passes bill to temporarily fund government, avoids shutdown
With an eye toward the 2012 presidential contest, leading Republicans used this weekend s meeting of the National Governors Association to lay out divergent views of President Obama s stimulus plan; and competing visions of their party s future.On one side were southern governors including Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Haley Barbour of Mississippi, and Mark Sanford of South Carolina. All three are outspoken critics of Obama s $787 billion plan to jolt the economy through investment in education, health care and transportation, and have said they are likely to reject some of the stimulus funding.Jindal and Sanford are considered likely presidential candidates in 2012, but have demurred when asked about their future endeavors. stanley cup On the other side were the coastal moderates, including Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have embraced Obama s stimulus plan as an important, if imperfect, means of bringing their states out of the grip of recession. Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria, is precluded by law from runni stanley thermobecher ng for president, but Crist is thought to be a serious prospect.In the middle is another likely 2012 contender, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who has criticized the stimulus bill but nonetheless plans to accept the money for his state. Pawlenty, whom John McCain nearly chose as his running mate last year, speaks openly of the need for the GOP to modernize and attract more minorities an stanley hrnek d women while put
In an interim progress report on the September 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, five H stanley termoska ouse committees call former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other high-ranking State Department officials responsible for reducing security levels at the consulate, contradicting the testimony Clinton gave before Congress.The interim report -- released by Republicans on the House Armed Services, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight and Government Reform Committees -- reaches three major conclusions.First, the committees Republicans conclude that Clinton approved security reductions at the consulate, pointing to evidence such as an April 2012 State Department cable bearing her signature. The cable was a formal request from then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz for more security. In her testimony before Congress in January, Clinton said, With specific security requests they didn t come to me. I had no knowledge of them. House investigators talking to new Benghazi whistleblowersKerry mourns first diplomat killed since Benghazi The interim report also charges that White House and senior State Department officials attempted to protect the State Department from criticism by altering accurate talki stanley website ng points drafted by the intelligence community. For instance, the report says that, after a Sept. 15, 2012 meeting, administration officials removed references to the likely participation of Islamic stanley mug extremists. Ltyw Congress passes bill to temporarily fund government, avoids shutdown
With an eye toward the 2012 presidential contest, leading Republicans used this weekend s meeting of the National Governors Association to lay out divergent views of President Obama s stimulus plan; and competing visions of their party s future.On one side were southern governors including Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Haley Barbour of Mississippi, and Mark Sanford of South Carolina. All three are outspoken critics of Obama s $787 billion plan to jolt the economy through investment in education, health care and transportation, and have said they are likely to reject some of the stimulus funding.Jindal and Sanford are considered likely presidential candidates in 2012, but have demurred when asked about their future endeavors. stanley cup On the other side were the coastal moderates, including Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have embraced Obama s stimulus plan as an important, if imperfect, means of bringing their states out of the grip of recession. Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria, is precluded by law from runni stanley thermobecher ng for president, but Crist is thought to be a serious prospect.In the middle is another likely 2012 contender, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who has criticized the stimulus bill but nonetheless plans to accept the money for his state. Pawlenty, whom John McCain nearly chose as his running mate last year, speaks openly of the need for the GOP to modernize and attract more minorities an stanley hrnek d women while put
