False Hope

Republicans still hold out hope that they will actually get the truth once Hillary Clinton finally shows up in Congress to testify.  They are delusional if they think she'll actually tell them the who, what, when, where, and how
about the terrorist raid and subsequent murder of our Ambassador and other Americans in Benghazi.

They held out a similar hope of getting the information from David Petraeus.  He declined to share any meaningful information, even though one would think he had nothing to lose by telling the truth.  But then again, how can we know exactly what he had to lose if he had exposed the President and Secretary of State?

We've seen it before.  When her husband was President and she did several horrible things from the White House, she got grilled about them.  They hoped to get the truth back then about various things like the missing law firm billing records from Whitewater, the Travel Office scandal, the FBI Files scandal.  She didn't tell them a thing.  She said she didn't remember.

That's exactly what she will do this time.  Question after question will be answered with "I don't know", "I don't recall", "I had no involvement in that", etc.

Come on guys.  Do you really think Hillary will actually tell you the truth?  She'll never tell you why she denied repeated requests from the Ambassador for more security.  She'll never tell you why the Seal Team was told to stand down while the consulate was under attack.  She'll never tell who in the White House created the cover story about a protest gone awry.

The simplest answer is always the best.  Hillary knew and supported the denial of requests from the Ambassador to increase security.  They were denied because she and Obama were trying to be sensitive to the desires of the fledgling Islamist government being formed in the vacuum after Qadafi was executed.

They told the Seals to stand down for much the same reason.  They expected the new Libyan government to be outraged at American commandos landing in Benghazi and killing a bunch of Libyan terrorists - in fact, that government reportedly told them they would not permit any troops in their country, even for a limited rescue mission.

They made up the cover story for purely political reasons, with the aim to protect Obama's re-election campaign from bad press.  My guess is the idea came from somebody in the campaign, probably Axelrod.  I wouldn't call it a guess to say Obama endorsed the idea and ran with it - we have plenty of evidence of that. Turns out it worked like a charm, because the press had zero curiosity about the inside story of how or why the Ambassador was killed inside our own consulate.  So as it turns out, they could have told the truth and the press would have covered for them anyway.

Hillary will not admit her role in the massacre, and won't even admit to knowing anything about it.  So stop dreaming about a grand expose in the hearing room.  It's not going to happen, and you'll never get the truth.  At least until some white house staffer writes his memoirs 20 or 30 years from now and tells the actual story.