The drama ramped up this morning as the first half of the Benghazi hearing wound down, and let me just say—thank god for split-screens.
Dripping with smarm, Rep. Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.) twice offered to stop talking (perchance to dream) so Hillary Clinton could look at her notes during the Benghazi hearing Thursday.
Drama at the FBI—according to the New York Times, the agency is livid because it feels undermined by President Obama—again.
Before vanishing in a puff of smoke a week ago, Republic House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy asserted that the House’s select committee on Benghazi had been very successful ... in damaging Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers. The backlash against those comments may have led to McCarthy’s abrupt withdrawal from the Speaker of the House race, but this week, one of his Republic colleagues admitted what McCarthy said was basically true.
During tonight’s debate between Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and some custodial employees of the Wynn Las Vegas, StopHillaryPAC.org aired a generic Benghazi conspiracy theory clip blaming Clinton for the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens. It contains three typos, including the name of the country in which he died.
President Obama tonight on 60 Minutes stopped short of describing Hillary Clinton’s ongoing email scandal as “not that big a deal” but did suggest the issue has been “ginned up” by political opponents for political reasons.
One of the more curious features of Bill Clinton’s years-long affair with Monica Lewinsky is the photographic trail the paramours left behind: posing in the Oval Office, hugging on the campaign trail, shooting the shit in the West Wing. In the years since, however, no such photos have emerged of Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton—which is more than a little strange, given the outsized role the former First Lady played in her husband’s administration.
Former Hillary Clinton advisor Philippe Reines has emphatically maintained that—unlike his longtime boss—he never used a personal email account to conduct official State Department business. In fact, when Gawker reported earlier this year that Reines was known to use his private email account to communicate with reporters in his role as Clinton’s deputy assistant secretary of state, he replied with a colorful, forceful, and highly specific denial in which he attacked several reporters for even raising the question.
A new report from the Associated Press suggests Russian hackers deliberately attempted to infiltrate Hillary Clinton’s private email server, realizing the worst fears that critics of the server have held for months. But the story presents no evidence that any human being, Russian or otherwise, ever deliberately and knowingly attempted to hack into Clinton’s account. She just got spam, like all of us do.
A newly released email from Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State provides an interesting peek at the loudly, recently LGBT candidate’s private thought process of gender descriptors: they’re not worth the Fox News blowback.
