Why I Dislike Politicians

The Washington Posts reports that the House GOP has released a paper claiming that Secretary Clinton personally rejected a request for more security in Libya. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-gop-report-says-clinton-rejected-plea-for-more-security-in-libya/2013/04/23/d2d03dfa-ac6b-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html  WaPo notes: "The report cites an April 2012 internal State Department message, called a cable, bearing Clinton’s signature. "  

Apparently the Republicans have no idea how the State Department works, have nobody on their staff with any relevant experience, and don't know how to find out how it works. But wait, they had that information provided to them. The Secretary testified that EVERY cable that goes out from State has the name of the Secretary (or Acting Secretary) on it. (I know this to be true, for every Administration at least back to Reagan.) The signature indicates who is in charge of the Department (or overseas, the mission) at the time the message was sent, not who read the message before going it went out, and certainly not who personally wrote it. (I wrote about 200 cables a year; over 25 years, only a handful have "Carlson" at the bottom - as that indicates I was in charge, not that I wrote the cable.)

So, a classic example of "political" speech.