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Hillary Clinton was secretary of state when terrorists killed the US ambassador and other Americansin Benghazi, Libya. Republicans aim to make that a major issue if she runs for president.
Republican-led congressional investigations of the issue known simply as Benghazi are becoming a major political irritation for the Obama White House. It gets in the way of the Year of Action government by executive order President Obama is touting as his way of dealing with what he sees as an obstructive Congress.
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But for the Democratic front-runner in the 2016 presidential campaign Hillary Clinton its quickly growing into a potentially devastating target of opportunity for the GOP as it searches for a way to head off a Clinton political dynasty.
Republicans aren't going to let Benghazi go, unless and until they find that it doesn't serve as a liability for Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the attack, writes New Republic senior editor Brian Beutler on the magazines web site. And while we know that the conspiracy theory that sparked and sustains Benghazimania has been debunked, we don't know whether the right's obsession with it will become a real hindrance for Clinton if she runs for the presidency, or if it will backfire against Republicans.
So far, her Republican critics see Clinton as very vulnerable here, which could become more than just a distraction for her and her supporters starting to line up with endorsements as US Sen. Tim Kaine (D) of Virginia did the other day and fund-raising.
It could be a good tactical if not strategic move.
A year ago, not long after the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, which killed the US ambassador and three other American personnel, Clinton saw a big drop in her favorability ratings,
The drop in her favorability is substantial among men,Republicansand independent voters, Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said at the time. One reason for her drop may be that 48 percent of voters blame her either a little or a lot for the death of the American ambassador in Benghazi.
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Hillary Clinton was secretary of state when terrorists killed the US ambassador and other Americansin Benghazi, Libya. Republicans aim to make that a major issue if she runs for president.
Republican-led congressional investigations of the issue known simply as Benghazi are becoming a major political irritation for the Obama White House. It gets in the way of the Year of Action government by executive order President Obama is touting as his way of dealing with what he sees as an obstructive Congress.
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Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS of The Christian Science Monitor Weekly Digital Edition
But for the Democratic front-runner in the 2016 presidential campaign Hillary Clinton its quickly growing into a potentially devastating target of opportunity for the GOP as it searches for a way to head off a Clinton political dynasty.
Republicans aren't going to let Benghazi go, unless and until they find that it doesn't serve as a liability for Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the attack, writes New Republic senior editor Brian Beutler on the magazines web site. And while we know that the conspiracy theory that sparked and sustains Benghazimania has been debunked, we don't know whether the right's obsession with it will become a real hindrance for Clinton if she runs for the presidency, or if it will backfire against Republicans.
So far, her Republican critics see Clinton as very vulnerable here, which could become more than just a distraction for her and her supporters starting to line up with endorsements as US Sen. Tim Kaine (D) of Virginia did the other day and fund-raising.
It could be a good tactical if not strategic move.
A year ago, not long after the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, which killed the US ambassador and three other American personnel, Clinton saw a big drop in her favorability ratings,
The drop in her favorability is substantial among men,Republicansand independent voters, Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said at the time. One reason for her drop may be that 48 percent of voters blame her either a little or a lot for the death of the American ambassador in Benghazi.
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Virginia Senator Tim Kaine will back Hillary Clinton for president if she decides to run in 2016and he thinks she should.
Kaine was in Columbia, S.C. as the keynote speaker at the South Carolina Jefferson Jackson Dinner.
Kaine told the South Carolina Womens Democratic Council during a special breakfast function that he backed Clinton because of her experience and her history of engaging important domestic issues.
Said Kaine, She is a classic American optimist with the background and experiences necessary to lead this country in a very complicated world.
He mentioned that he would be starting his fifth year in the Senate in 2017.
Kaine said he considered Clinton someone he knew for certain that he would want to be working with in the White House on all fronts.
He acknowledged that sexism would be a major factor, making Clintons journey towards the presidency a difficult one.
If it were easy for women to achieve top leadership spots in this country, said Kaine, Congress would have more than 18 percent women serving.
Because of perceived racial politics in the country during 2006, few believed that President Barack Obama had a chance.
One of those few who backed Obama early on was Senator Kaine.
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FORTUNATELY, both Hamid Mir, the intended victim of the April 19 shooting in Karachi, and freedom of expression will survive. Like Pakistans nuclear weapons programme, there is no scope for a rollback, despite the dastardly attacks on media and journalists. However, the present situation underlines the illusion of media self-regulation, especially by electronic news media.
There are two broad categories of media regulation. The physical, operational category is an exclusive state responsibility covering essentials of eligibility.
The second category is of content regulation, shared between the state and media. It is only partly covered by one aspect in the first category ie acceptance by the licensee of the terms and conditions on which permission is granted to own and operate the media. For example, in Pemras case, it is mandatory for each licensee of a channel to practise the Pemra Code of Conduct.
But just as the nature of news is volatile and unpredictable from minute to minute, the manner in which electronic news media should report events is vulnerable to variable factors of spontaneous utterances and actions, competitiveness, speed and sensation. All these elements fused into a potent, explosive mixture to make the live, unedited transmission of allegations against the ISI and its chief on April 19, an archetypical example of content regulations complexity.
Equally, the episode underlined the inadequacy of media themselves being the sole determinant of the imperatives that should shape their content. A serious, unproven accusation against a state institution and an individual was projected instantly to virtually billions of people around the world. This incident was actually a crisis in the making from the very inception of independent, privately owned electronic media in Pakistan onwards of 2002.
The Pemra Ordinance 2002 was the third version of a law unprecedented in Pakistans history. First came the Emra Ordinance of February 1997 by the unelected caretaker government of president Farooq Leghari and prime minister Meraj Khalid which was deliberately allowed to lapse in June 1997 by the elected second government of prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The second version was a draft law known as the Rambo Ordinance twice approved by the cabinet of president Pervez Musharraf in 2000 but not actually promulgated. Then came a slightly revised version known as the Pemra Ordinance in March 2002 which, with subsequent amendments, remains in force today.
Though assailed by some, the Pemra law and Pemra as a regulatory body have actually helped transform the electronic media landscape. For better and worse. We went rapidly from the extreme of monopoly to the extreme of abundance. Despite a few lacunae, several failures and weaknesses in enforcement, the Pemra law and Pemra have significantly advanced freedom of expression and media. Public awareness and engagement on vital issues have been radically enhanced.
Yet a curious simultaneity of construction and deconstruction occurred. Even as the number of channels took the giant leap, the will and capacity to enforce unwritten norms of propriety, and written laws and rules took several steps backwards. This became all the more strange because in this very period, government control of the regulatory body increased, rather than decreased.
The decline in regulatory effectiveness was vigorously enabled by the superior judiciary. This state pillar remains willing to promptly issue stay orders against Pemras attempts to discipline media conduct. Stay orders are prolonged for years instead of weeks. The judiciary permits the law to be flouted: non-licensed religious channels are allowed to continue broadcasting.
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