\u201cThey\u2019ve tried to point a finger at people more senior than where we found the decisions were made,\u201d Pickering said of Clinton\u2019s critics. On the other hand, according to Pickering, they also found it unnecessary to chat with her because she had already accepted \u201cthe full responsibility.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Let me get this straight–the Accountability Review Board (ARB), led by former U.N. Ambassador Thomas Pickering<\/a> and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/a> Adm. Mike Mullen<\/a>, did not feel it was necessary to interview Secretary of State Hillary Clinton because she had already accepted \u201cthe full responsibility.\u201d Therefore, it was not important to find out what she knew, when she knew it, or what decisions she was responsible for on the night of the attack on Benghazi or before that night. Wow! How many teenagers would welcome a deal like that?!<\/p>\n The article at Power Line reminds us of another aspect of the ARB:<\/p>\n How did the estimable men of the ARB miss Gregory Hicks in the information gathering phase of their work? The ARB harks back to Richard Nixon<\/a>\u2019s desired resolution of the controversy over production of the Watergate tapes<\/a>: The Stennis Compromise<\/a>. In lieu of producing the tapes, Nixon proposed, bring in some eminent but hearing-impaired<\/a> older man to check out the tapes and report back. The Stennis Compromise was laughed out of consideration. Only Democrats<\/a> can get away with something like that. <\/strong><\/p>\n This is truly a sad chapter in American history. I have already chosen the quote of the week, but I wonder if I can put the following quote up for next week’s Quote of the Week. Scott Johnson posted a story at Power Line yesterday about some of the … Continue reading ![\"Enhanced](\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=3e9adb82-648f-4874-a157-7bc3f6c0065d\")
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