re: Anyone watching the Benghazi hearings? - Updated with link to recording

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All I recall is that he said she was the ambassador to Egypt at the time of the attacks but was obviously in charge of a whole region right now.

Good digging, although I am not sure it would be unusual to have her pictured near members of the Muslim brotherhood given her job.

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I have mentioned her numerous times over the last two years on this forum (thus why my sig quote said what it did) and I didn't have to dig for the pic or the story because it was already in my files. Yes, she met Badie (while accompanied by John Kerry) through her position as Ambassador to Egypt during the MB takeover there. Her support for the new government of the MB was enthusiastic by all accounts.

She wasn't actually in Cairo for the 9/11 protests at the U.S. Embassy there, but was en route back to Washington to meet with Clinton and Kennedy. The timing of that has always been suspect, since she had known for two weeks that there would be a major demonstration at the Embassy that day by the Salafists in support of the release of the Blind Sheikh. Knowing there would be trouble at her Embassy that very day, she hotfooted it out of the country the night before, and thus was able to disassociate herself from the controversial tweets made by the Embassy staff that day - tweets that are widely believed to have fueled the fire of the crowds that day.

I said long ago that her name would come up in Benghazi hearings.