Y****g
发帖数: 662 | 1 The nude wrestling of Hillary Clinton vs Susan Rice was so hot that it
ignited a huge fire in the State Department.
http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2012/11/24/2094431.html
美国国务院突发大火：已酿4伤 1人有生命危险(图)
美国国务院主楼24日在进行维护作业时发生火灾，造成4人受伤，其中至少1人有生命危
险。
美国国务院发言人纽兰(Victoria Nuland )11月24日发布声明称，24日上午11点左
右，国务院主楼一个区域接受例行维护作业时发生火灾。她说，华盛顿特区消防部门赶
来扑灭了大火。几名工人被送到了医院接受治疗。
华盛顿消防局及紧急治疗中心表示，当时工人正在国务院7楼维修管线，结果发生
火意外，4人严重烧伤，其中1人生命垂危。
纽兰说，大火被迅速扑灭，国务院主楼已经重新开放，展开周末正常的运营。
目前，火灾的原因仍在调查中。 | Y****g
发帖数: 662 | 2 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/hillary-clinton-bengha
Hillary Clinton Benghazi Testimony: Secretary Of State To Testify Before
House Committee About Deadly Attack
Posted: 12/07/2012 8:56 pm EST | Updated: 12/08/2012 9:38 am EST
WASHINGTON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will
testify on a report expected to be released next week on the deadly attack
on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, a top Republican lawmaker
said on Friday.
"I have just received confirmation from Secretary Clinton's office that the
secretary of state will appear before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
to discuss, in an open hearing, the findings and the recommendations in the
report," Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said in a statement.
Ros-Lehtinen is chair of the House of Representatives Foreign Relations
Committee, which has already held several hearings and classified briefings
on the attack.
The attack killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other
Americans, and raised questions about the adequacy of security in far-flung
posts.
Republicans have criticized the Obama administration for its flawed early
public explanations of the attack, and then for shifting explanations of why
talking points given to U.S Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice were changed
to delete a reference to al Qaeda.
Ros-Lehtinen said she expected an accountability review board report on the
attack to be released next week.
She said she wanted to hear from Clinton about steps the State Department
has taken to deal with problems in the "security of our posts, threat
assessments, host government responsibilities and coordination with other U.
S. security agencies."
The committee's press release did not give a date for the hearing with
Clinton but said it expected to happen "soon after" the review board's
report is released.
(Reporting by Doug Palmer; Editing by Lisa Shumaker) | Y****g
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Benghazi Report Results In 4 State Department Resignations
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WASHINGTON -- Four State Department officials resigned under pressure
Wednesday, less than a day after a damning report blamed management failures
for a lack of security at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya,
where militants killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans on Sept
. 11.
The resignations came as lawmakers expressed anger and frustration over the
findings of an independent review panel, and the State Department struggled
to find a balance between protecting its diplomats while allowing them to do
their jobs connecting with people in high-risk posts.
Obama administration officials said those who had stepped down included Eric
Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security; Charlene
Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary responsible for embassy security; and
Raymond Maxwell, the deputy assistant secretary of state who oversees the
Maghreb nations of Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. The officials spoke
on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss
personnel matters publicly.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the department had
accepted the resignations of four people: Boswell as well as two others in
the bureau of diplomatic security and one in the bureau of Near East Affairs
. She would not name the other three officials.
Some of those who resigned may have the option of being reassigned to other
duties, the officials said.
The department declined immediate comment on the resignation of the
officials whose decisions had been criticized in the unclassified version of
the Accountability Review Board's report that was released late Tuesday.
The board's co-chairman, retired Adm. Mike Mullen, told reporters that the
board had not determined that any officials had "engaged in willful
misconduct or knowingly ignored his or her responsibilities,"
But Mullen, a former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, added, "We did conclude
that certain State Department bureau level senior officials in critical
levels of authority and responsibility in Washington demonstrated a lack of
leadership and management ability appropriate for senior ranks in their
responses to security concerns posed by the special mission."
Mullen said the mission's security fell through bureaucratic cracks caused
in part because buildings were categorized as temporary. The report said
that budget constraints had caused some officials to be more concerned with
saving scarce money than in security.
Co-chairman Thomas Pickering, a retired ambassador, said the personnel on
the ground in Benghazi had reacted to the attack with bravery and
professionalism. But, he said, the security precautions were "grossly
inadequate" and the contingent was overwhelmed by the heavily armed
militants.
"They did the best they possibly could with what they had but what they had
wasn't enough," Pickering said.
Pickering and Mullen spoke shortly after briefing members of Congress in
private. Lawmakers from both parties emerged from the sessions with harsh
words for the State Department.
"My impression is the State Department clearly failed the Boy Scout motto of
`be prepared,'" said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.
"They failed to anticipate what was coming because of how bad the security
risk already was there. ... They failed to connect the dots," he said. "They
didn't have adequate security leading up to the attack and once the attack
occurred, the security was woefully inadequate."
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House intelligence committee,
said security was "plainly inadequate, intelligence collection needs to be
improved, and our reliance on local militias was sorely misplaced.
"These are not mistakes we can afford to make again," he said.
The House intelligence committee chairman, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said
the report laid bare "the massive failure of the State Department at all
levels, including senior leadership, to take action to protect our
government employees abroad," and complained that no one was being held
accountable.
Rogers also said he was dissatisfied with the lack of progress in finding
the attackers.
Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security who
was in charge of embassy protection, testified in October before the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee and defended the security measures.
"I made the best decisions I could with the information I had," Lamb said at
the time. "We had the correct number of assets in Benghazi at the time of 9
/11."
She also told Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., that she rejected requests for more
security in Benghazi, instead training "local Libyans and army men" to
provide security, a policy in force at U.S. diplomatic facilities around the
world.
Pickering and Mullen set the stage for public hearings set for Thursday on
Capitol Hill. Scheduled to testify were Deputy Secretary of State William
Burns, who is in charge of policy, and Deputy Secretary of State Thomas
Nides, who is in charge of management.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was to have appeared at Thursday's
hearings, but she canceled after fainting and sustaining a concussion last
week while recovering from a stomach virus. Clinton is under doctors' orders
to rest.
Senate Republicans and Democrats said they hoped Clinton would testify on
the Hill even though she is planning to step down from her Cabinet post.
In a letter that accompanied the transmission of the report to Capitol Hill,
Clinton thanked the board for its "clear-eyed, serious look at serious
systemic challenges" and said she accepted its 29 recommendations to improve
security at high-threat embassies and consulates.
She said the department had begun to put in place some of the
recommendations. They include increasing by several hundred the number of
Marine guards stationed at diplomatic missions throughout the world; relying
less on local security forces for protection at embassies, consulates and
other offices; and increasing hiring and deployment of highly trained
Diplomatic Security agents at at-risk posts.
Clinton agreed with the panel's finding that Congress must fully fund the
State Department's security initiatives. The panel found that budget
constraints in the past had led some management officials to emphasize
savings over security, including rejecting numerous requests from the
Benghazi mission and the embassy in Tripoli for enhanced protection.
House and Senate negotiators working on a defense bill agreed on Tuesday to
fund 1,000 more Marines at embassy security worldwide.
The report singled out the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the Bureau of
Near East Affairs for criticism. It said there was a lack of cooperation and
confusion over protection at the mission in Benghazi, a city in eastern
Libya that was relatively lawless after the revolution that toppled Libyan
leader Moammar Gadhafi.
But it broke little new ground about the timeline of the Benghazi attack.
Killed were U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, information specialist Sean Smith
, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods – who were
contractors working for the CIA. Stevens was the first U.S. ambassador
killed since 1988.
The board determined that there had been no immediate, specific tactical
warning of a potential attack on the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. But
the report said there had been several worrisome incidents before to the
attack that should have set off warning bells.
It did confirm, though, that contrary to initial accounts, there was no
protest outside the facility.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, administration officials linked
the attack to the spreading protests that had begun in Cairo earlier that
day over an American-made, anti-Islamic film. Those comments came after
evidence already pointed to a distinct militant attack in Benghazi.
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on numerous TV talk shows the Sunday
after the attack and used the administration talking points linking it to
the film. An ensuing brouhaha in the heat of the presidential campaign
eventually led her to withdraw her name from consideration to replace
Clinton as secretary of state in President Barack Obama's second term.
Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., emerging from the Senate briefing on the report,
kept up the congressional criticism of Rice.
"Now we all know she had knowledge. She knew what the truth was. It was a
cover-up," he said.
While criticizing State Department management in Washington along with the
local militia force and contract guards that the mission depended on for
protection, the report said U.S. personnel on the ground in Benghazi "
performed with courage and readiness to risk their lives to protect their
colleagues in a near-impossible situation."
It said the response by Diplomatic Security agents on the scene and CIA
operatives at a nearby compound that later came under attack itself had been
"timely and appropriate" and absolved the military from any blame. "There
was simply not enough time for armed U.S. military assets to have made a
difference," it said.
The report also discounted speculation that officials in Washington had
refused appeals for additional help after the attack had begun.
The report said the evacuation of the dead and wounded 12 hours after the
initial attack was due to "exceptional U.S. government coordination and
military response" that helped save the lives of two seriously wounded
Americans.
___
Associated Press writers Donna Cassata and Kimberly Dozier contributed to
this report.
【在 Y****g 的大作中提到】
: The nude wrestling of Hillary Clinton vs Susan Rice was so hot that it
: ignited a huge fire in the State Department.
: http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2012/11/24/2094431.html
: 美国国务院突发大火：已酿4伤 1人有生命危险(图)
: 美国国务院主楼24日在进行维护作业时发生火灾，造成4人受伤，其中至少1人有生命危
: 险。
: 美国国务院发言人纽兰(Victoria Nuland )11月24日发布声明称，24日上午11点左
: 右，国务院主楼一个区域接受例行维护作业时发生火灾。她说，华盛顿特区消防部门赶
: 来扑灭了大火。几名工人被送到了医院接受治疗。
: 华盛顿消防局及紧急治疗中心表示，当时工人正在国务院7楼维修管线，结果发生
| Y****g
发帖数: 662 | 4 http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2012/12/19/2135972.html脑震荡？/a> “诈病”逃责任(图)
文章来源: 世界日报 于 2012-12-19 20:48:28 - 新闻取自各大新闻媒体，新闻内容并
不代表本网立场！
打印本新闻(被阅读 8119 次)脑震荡？疯传希拉里“诈病”逃责任
美国国务卿喜莱莉因肠胃炎外加脑震盪挂病号，引发阴谋论，美国驻联合国前大使
波顿表示，喜莱莉得的是「外交诈病（diplomatic illness）」，因为她不想出席20日
的利比亚班加西使馆攻击事件国会听证会；国务院发言人卢岚18日驳斥波顿的说法，对
这样的质疑表示遗憾。
美驻班加西领事馆攻击血案的独立调查小组已公布报告，严厉批评国务院对于驻外
使馆保护不周。喜莱莉表示接受批评并指示国务院执行一连串改革，加强外馆维安。
喜莱莉的健康问题引发关注，更让华府政坛有兴趣的则是新任国务卿人选。包括华
盛顿邮报、纽约时报等媒体报导，欧巴马已确定提名参议员柯瑞；至于新任国防部长人
选，则内定由共和党前参议员海格接任，但也传出一些反对声浪。白宫预计美东时间21
日宣布人事案。
喜莱莉上周因为肠胃炎导致严重脱水，在家昏倒后撞到头部造成脑震盪，国务院为
此发布新闻稿，表示喜莱莉将听取医师建议，取消本周所有行程，但仍会在家处理重要
公文。
喜莱莉原订20日出席的听证会因此缺席，由于时间十分巧合，引发政坛臆测。布希
总统任内担任驻联合国大使的波顿在媒体上抨击，全世界的外交人员都知道一个名词，
当你不想出席一场会议或活动，就会以生病当藉口，就是所谓的「外交诈病」。
波顿说，如果喜莱莉还想出来选总统，就有义务把使馆攻击事件交代清楚，「她能
躲过这星期，却躲不了一辈子。」
外交酿“重大失误” 希拉里晚节不保
因脑震荡在家带病工作的希拉里17日收到一份班加西遇袭调查报告。该报告认定美国驻
班加西使馆遇袭，国务院应负全责，身为国务院一把手的希拉里（Hillary Clinton）
自然首当其冲。就任国务卿4年以来，希拉里折冲撙节在世界各地，期冀留下丰厚的政
治遗产。但这份报告犹如一纸审判令，使得即将告老还乡的她令名大损。
这份报告指出，在安全环境恶化的情况下，美国国务院忽略升级驻班加西领事馆的防卫
，未能主动采取安全措施，而仅仅依靠当地武装力量，应该对班加西遇袭事件负责。该
报告强调，袭击事件，尤其应该归咎于国务院外交安全和近东事务局，这两个机构在提
供安全保障方面未能良好协作。
希拉里是美国国务院最高长官，也是美国首席外交事务官员。对于美国国务院在班加西
事件的“重大失误”，她自然难辞其咎。早在10月，希拉里便曾主动将这次事件责任揽
在己身。但这次该调查报告的出炉，则是正式判定国务院在班加西事件中有着不可推卸
的责任。这对试图在美国外交界扬名立万的希拉里而言，无疑是个重磅炸弹。
在以前美国外交中，总统安全顾问往往抢走了国务卿的风头，但希拉里就任国务卿以来
，她强力扭转这一局面。截至目前，她已访问100多个国家，超过了奥尔布赖特（
Madeleine Korbel Albrigh）的96个和赖斯（Condoleezza Condi Rice）的85个，成为
美国历史上访问国家最多的国务卿。
在2009年1月参议院听证会上，希拉里明确提出“巧实力将是本届政府的核心外交策略
”。后来，她亲自设计“重返亚洲”战略。通过推行“巧实力”和“重返亚洲”两大战
略，美国结束阿富汗战争、击毙本•拉登（Osama bin Laden），并催生“阿拉伯
之春”。
此外，她还借助以上两大战略，成功让美国介入南海问题和中日钓鱼岛争端。虽然，这
一举动使得地区局势暗流涌动，也让中美关系时而紧张。但从美国战略考量，希拉里却
实现了在亚太地区平衡中国影响力的目的，堪称美国外交界“巾帼英雄”。
不能不提的是，在希拉里任内，她曾一度主导对华政策。2011年前的中美战略与经济对
话，美方负责人一直由希拉里担当。在2012年4月“陈光诚事件”发生后，希拉里亲自
主导，并最终促成陈光诚赴美。在美国人看来，希拉里的行为，是对西方“普世价值”
最有力的维护和践行，非但会为希拉里国务卿生涯增色加分，也会在美国人权史上谱写
浓墨重彩的一笔。
“雁过留声，人过留名”。不难发现，高居庙堂的希拉里，也的确为自己的国务卿生涯
谋赚了丰厚的政治遗产。在民主党内，希拉里的支持率一直维持在9成的高位。而近日
《华盛顿邮报》民意调查显示，有6成美国人支持希拉里当选总统。
2016年美国大选时，希拉里69岁。美国前总统里根（Ronald Wilson Reagan）70岁后曾
两任美国总统，这就意味着希拉里仍有机会。但班加西遇袭事件却让希拉里可能就此“
梦断白宫”。
目前，美国两党就班加西事件的政治角力越演越烈。就在13日，美国驻联合国大使、国
务卿热门人选赖斯（Susan Rice）便因班加西事件“失言”而引发共和党人强势炮轰，
最终宣布退出国务卿的角逐。
对希拉里而言，班加西事件的“污点”也将成为她政治遗产的最大败笔，同时也掣肘着
她未来的政治抱负。中国有句古话：“一失足成千古恨，再回首已百年身”，此刻的希
拉里应该最有体会。 |
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