Hillary Clinton offers forceful defense on Benghazi, emails in Iowa speech: (HILLARY GROUP)
CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a fierce defense of her handling of the 2012 Benghazi attacks and her use of a private email server as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, dismissing the controversies as "partisan games" in a speech before influential Iowa Democrats on Friday.
"They'll try to tell you it's about Benghazi, but it's not," Clinton said, pointing to Republican-led congressional inquiries that she said had "debunked all the conspiracy theories."
"It's not about emails or servers either. It's about politics," she said.
"I won't get down in the mud with them. I won't play politics with national security," Clinton said at the annual Wing Ding, a Democratic fundraiser in northern Iowa that attracted three other presidential candidates....
But the night was marked by Clinton's forceful defense....
Turning to her email controversies, Clinton said she would "do my part to provide transparency to Americans — that's why I'm insisting 55,000 pages of my emails be published as soon as possible" and turned over the server.
"I won't pretend that this is anything other than what it is: the same old partisan games we've seen so many times before," she said. "So I don't care how many super PACs and Republicans pile on. I've been fighting for families and underdogs my entire life and I'm not going to stop now."...
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/hillary_clinton_offers_forcefu.html via AP
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Hillary is a fighter, and I'm glad she's speaking up. Sometimes I find myself thinking she's been a little too quiet lately.
Make some NOISE, Hillary!!! Let's hear you ROAR!!!
