A House of Representatives committee held a hearing on Wednesday on the events surrounding the death of J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, in an attack on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi in September. For more on the hearing, read the Post’s coverage here.
The Washington Post’s opinion writers have been arguing fiercely about whether the hearing revealed problems at the State Department under the leadership of former Secretary Hillary Clinton, or whether it was mere political theater.
Eugene Robinson rejects the idea that there is any kind of scandal in Stevens’s death:
The hearing convened Wednesday by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) produced a riveting narrative of the chaotic events in Libya last September. But what was the supposedly unforgivable crime?
Did Clinton’s State Department fail to provide adequate security for the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi? In retrospect, obviously so. But the three diplomats who testified at the hearing gave no evidence that this failure sprang from anything other than the need to use limited resources as efficiently as possible.
The Washington Post’s opinion writers have been arguing fiercely about whether the hearing revealed problems at the State Department under the leadership of former Secretary Hillary Clinton, or whether it was mere political theater.
Eugene Robinson rejects the idea that there is any kind of scandal in Stevens’s death:
The hearing convened Wednesday by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) produced a riveting narrative of the chaotic events in Libya last September. But what was the supposedly unforgivable crime?
Did Clinton’s State Department fail to provide adequate security for the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi? In retrospect, obviously so. But the three diplomats who testified at the hearing gave no evidence that this failure sprang from anything other than the need to use limited resources as efficiently as possible.