Still Waiting

Last month, we commented on the fact that the Secretary of State had still not appeared before a congressional committee to explain her department's handling of the Benghazi fiasco which resulted in the death of the American Ambassador and three other  Americans on September 11, 2012. To cut to the chase, it hasn't happened yet.

Yes, she was hospitalized at one point and it would be crass to suggest that her illness was just a touch too convenient. Of course it might also be considered out of line to release a misleading explanation of the Benghazi affair, even as it became clear that the truth lay elsewhere.

But if any questions linger as to the Secretary's physical fitness, we all might well have been re-asssured to read in this morning's Wall Street Journal, the following quote regarding this weeks' hostage taking at an Algerian gas field:

"It is absolutely essential that we broaden and deepen our counterterrorism cooperation going forward with Algeria and all countries in the region," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday.

I am sure that it was not lost on the Secretary that Libya is Algeria's next door neighbor.

So, in spite of her statement that she had the responsibility, it does not appear that an official explanation of the lack of response and misleading explanation of the Benghazi attack is forthcoming, even though, it would appear that the secretary is, indeed, back at the helm at State. Moreover, with John Kerry's confirmation hearing scheduled for this week, it is now apparent that the Mrs. Clinton intends to retire to Chappaqua without shedding any light on the governments bungling of the Benghazi affair.

As was predicted in our last post, the clock is now running on the timing of the emergence of the "we turned that page" riff.