Rep. [crscore]Jim Jordan[/crscore] says Hillary Clinton “can’t be square with the American people.”
Jordan, a Benghazi Committee member, laid into Clinton Thursday, insisting, “Seems to me that night you had three options, Secretary. You could tell the truth, like you did with your family, like you did with the Libyan president, like you did with the Egyptian prime minister, tell him it was a terrorist attack.”
“You could say, you know what, we’re not quite sure,” said Jordan. “Don’t really know for sure. I don’t think the evidence is there, it’s all in the first one– you could have done that. But you picked a third option. You picked the video narrative. You picked the one with no evidence and you did it because Libya was supposed to be, as Mr. Roskom pointed out, this great success story for the Obama White House and the Clinton State Department.”
Jim Jordan: Let me show you one more slide. Again, this is from Victoria Nuland, your press person. she said to Jake Sullivan, Phillipe Reines subject line reads this. “Romney Statement On Libya.” Email says, this is what Ben was talking about. Assume Ben is the now somewhat famous Ben Rhodes, author of the “Talking Points Memo.” This email is at 10:35, 27 minutes after your 10:08 statement. Twenty-seven minutes after you’ve told everyone it’s a video, while Americans are still fighting because the attack’s still going on, your top people are talking politics. Seems to me that night you had three options, Secretary. You could tell the truth, like you did with your family, like you did with the Libyan president, like you did with the Egyptian prime minister, tell him it was a terrorist attack. You could say, you know what, we’re not quite sure. Don’t really know for sure. I don’t think the evidence is there it’s all in the first one– you could have done that. But you picked a third option. You picked the video narrative. You picked the one with no evidence and you did it because Libya was supposed to be, as Mr. Roskom pointed out, this great success story for the Obama White House and the Clinton state department. And the key campaign theme that year GM’s alive, bin Laden’s dead, and al-Qaida’s on the run. And now you have a terrorist attack. And it’s a terrorist attack in Libya. And it’s just 56 days before an election. You could live with the protest about a video. That won’t hurt you but a terrorist attack will. So you can’t be square with the American people. You tell your family it’s a terrorist attack. But not the American people. You tell the president of Libya it’s a terrorist attack. But not the American people. And you can tell the Egyptian prime minister it’s a terrorist attack. But you can’t tell your own people the truth. Madam Secretary, Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country. They don’t like it. They mourn for those families. They pray for those families. But they can live with it. But what they can’t take what they can’t live with, is when their government’s not square with them. Mr. Chairman, I yield back.