During today’s long-anticipated testimony by Hillary Clinton in front of the Benghazi Congressional committee, Representative Susan Brooks (R-IN) produced a visual display involving the former head of the State Department’s emails on Libya and the deteriorating situation that led to the Benghazi terror attacks.
Brooks concluded that the contrasting piles of emails show a “lack of interest” in the security situation for Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, all of whom would be killed in the September 11th, 2012 attack.
Brooks produced two piles of emails that had information and correspondence regarding Libya. The first pile, in 2011, contained nearly 800 emails. The second, as things grew worse for the ambassador in 2012, had only 67.
Why the drop off in Libya-related emails when the situation in Benghazi was clearly escalating?
Via The Blaze:
Rep. Susan Brooks (R-Ind.) literally confronted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with two piles of her emails during Thursday’s highly anticipated House Benghazi Committee hearing.
“I’d like to show you something,” Brooks said to Clinton as she pulled out the stacks of emails.
Brooks continued:
This pile represents the e-mails that you sent or received about Libya in 2011, from February through December of 2011. This pile represents the e-mails you sent or received from early 2012 until the day of the attack. There are 795 e-mails in this pile. We’ve counted them. There’s 67 e-mails in this pile in 2012.
And I’m troubled by what I see here. And so my questions relate to these piles. This pile in 2011 I see daily updates. Sometimes is hourly updates from your staff about Benghazi and Chris Stevens.
When I look at this pile in 2012, I only see a handful of e-mails to you from your senior staff about Benghazi. We know from talking to your senior advisers that they knew, many of them are here today seated behind you, that they knew to send you important information.
I can only conclude by your own records that there was a lack in interest in Libya in 2012.
Watch Brooks’ demonstration here …
Clinton responded to Brooks by saying “I did not do the vast majority of my work by email.”
You’d like to convince the American people that you conducted nearly 12 times as much work via email in 2011 as you did the following year? What, you discovered that snail mail and rotary phones worked better?
Here’s Clinton’s response below …
While Brooks’ theory that Clinton wasn’t focused enough on the situation in Libya and Benghazi is an interesting one, did she stop to consider that the dramatic drop off in e-mail content was maybe due to her and the State Department withholding information?
Because Hillary would never do that, right?
Comment: What did you think of the Congresswoman employing visual aids to the Benghazi hearing? Effective, or political theater?
Clinton could not care less about any one or any thing except her bid to con enough people to get her ass into the White House. If she can’t get that goal, then she will just walk away from ever thing thumbing her hose to every one and ever thing. It isn’t about what she did against the country, it is what the country can do for her.
wow the crazy on this page is classic GOP idiocy. #clinton2016
thie very stupid congresswoman was smacked down by the mighty Hillary. Most State Dept business is done by cable. This dumb little missy is a moron. Clinton OWNED her. And GOPs got their head handed to them #Clinton2016!
No one mentioned that Stevens was shipping Qaddafis army’s weapons through turkey to al Qaeda in Syria ,and that is why he was doing his business at the CIA annex and not at the embassy and not at the official consulate? The main point they all miss and arguably help cover up is this illegal gun running operation to arm al Qaedas attempted overthrow of Assad
2012 was the year that Obama and Hillary stepped up smuggling Arms and Funds to the Syrian Rebels, after Hussein’s childish “Red Line” idiocy. Stevens found out about it and before he could turn in Obama and Hillary, they had him killed! Both Clinton and Obama are known for their actions against those who turn on them, Death! The worst part is that they now have convinced the entire godless Democratic Party to be partners in their crime against We, the People, and some RINOs too!
The Shirley Temple-type Congresswoman really ripped Hillary concerning emails in 2011 v emails in 2012 …
Chris Stevens … To do Reconnaissance ??? Not to be a Ambassador ??? Was he in face a CIA Agent???
In other testimony, Clinton stated that what we thought was a U.S. Consultant, was in fact a Charade … Not a Consultant atoll … A CIA Covert Ops Station … Which now brings MORE Questions without answers …
This is one heck of a Covert Criminalist operational presidency ever recorded in 239 year American History … Come On People … The GOP Leadership under Trey Gowdy is trying to find the truths about Benghazi … and the more they dig the deeper the questions left unanswered … And the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) liberals led by Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) – Ranking member and the rest of the DSP liberals on the Benghazi Select Committee, rather than seeking the TRUTH about this whole mess is charging the GOP with a Witch Hunt against Clinton and her 2016 presidential bid …
Lets note the facts … The Benghazi Select Committee started over 2 years ago BEFORE Clinton decided to run for POTUS … It is the DSP liberals under the leadership of the ranking member, Elijah Cummings that is trying to destroy the repetition of the committee and to prevent the truth from coming forward …
Congresswoman Brooks’ use of visual aids was BOTH effective AND political theater…
actually she is dumb beyond reason. State dept business is not done by email , moron. It is down via cable. Ask sane people who live in reality. The congresswoman is an idiot. Clinton owned them all. AND raised 100,000 in one hour after the hearings ended. Thank Gowdy for Clinton in the WH!!! Wooo hoo!!! Republican idiots lie and overreach AGAIN helping a Clinton AGAIN ! hahahahahhahahahahaha.