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Politics

Benghazi Hearings Today Will Determine Fate of the Obama Administration (Not Really)

What will the content-to-grandstanding ratio be?

Scott Shackford | 5.8.2013 10:21 AM

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Maybe the administration meant to tell those guys to "stand down"?
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Three apparent whistle-blowers will be testifying before the Republican-run House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to tell us what is absolutely clear by now: The deadly attacks on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were a planned terrorist act and not a response to the trailer for The Innocence of Muslims, an anti-Muslim video posted on YouTube.

My Twitter feed tells me that these hearings will spell the doom of the Obama administration. I'm going to make the wild prediction that it most certainly will not. It may spell doom for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chances as president in 2016, but even that will depend on who her opposition would be.

The hearings will air on C-Span 3 beginning at 11:30 a.m. EST. The link to their feed is here. Enjoy! Wait, don't enjoy! Be outraged!

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Scott Shackford is a policy research editor at Reason Foundation.

PoliticsEmbassy AttacksWorldPolicyLibyaHillary ClintonDepartment of StateInnocence of MuslimsCongress
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