Rep. Gowdy (R-SC):
- "Madame Secretary, you're welcome to answer the question if you would like to."
Secretary Clinton:
- "Well, I wrote a whole chapter about this in my book, "Hard Choices"; I'd be glad to send it to you, Congressman ;)"
- http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bob-woodward-hillary-clintons-inconsistencies-are-not-richard-nixons-crimes/
- flashback: Bob Woodward compares Benghazi with Watergate (May 17, 2013)
- Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 10.23.2015
- Byron York, Benghazi bust (Washington Examiner 2015.10.22)
- "So a hearing billed as an epic, High Noon-style confrontation — granted, the hype came from the media, not Republican committee members themselves — instead turned out to be a somewhat interesting look at a few limited aspects of the Benghazi affair," he concluded. "In other words, no big deal. And that is very, very good news for Hillary Clinton."
- Erick Erickson, The Benghazi Hearing Should Not Be, But Is, A Waste of Time (erickontheradio.com 2015.10.22)
- "The hearings are a waste of time because everything about it is politicized and nothing is going to happen."
CBS 10.23.2015
- Q (2:45): Do you think Republicans looked bad in this committee hearing?
- A: John Dickerson
- "I think at moments they didn't look great. I mean, it was a long day; there were times where if you [tuned in, you might have] thought, what does this have to do with the central question? And that was a challenge for a committee that even Republicans have said has a partisan leaning."
- Benghazi chair struggles to explain gains from marathon session (op-ed)
- Indiana Republican Susan Brooks asked Clinton about her communication with Ambassador Chris Stevens who was killed in the attack.
- "We have no record that you had any conversation with the ambassador after you swore him in and before he died and you were his boss," said Brooks.
- "I was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries," responded Clinton.