Neither the secretary of defense nor the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke to the secretary of state during the 8-hour attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. At a Thursday hearing in the Senate, Republican Ted Cruz asked both Leon Panetta and Martin Dempsey, "In between 9:42 p.m., Benghazi time, when the first attacks started, and 5:15 am, when Mr. Doherty and Mr. Woods lost their lives, what converations did either of you have with Secretary Clinton?"
"We did not have any conversations with Secretary Clinton," Panetta responded.
"And General Dempsey, the same is true for you?" Cruz asked. Dempsey confirmed this. Watch the video below:
Just more proof that being a glorified housewife doesn't make you qualified to be Sec of State or POTUS. (No offense to housewives here.) Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)
As Thomas Sowell said in his article, Hillary took herself out of the picture for a few weeks to keep any sound bites from coming back to haunt her. She knows how to play the game.