Hillary Clinton

Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year's deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature of the assault.

WASHINGTON — Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut the Democrats' early favorite for president in 2016. Strategists in both parties disagree on the issue's power to influence elections next year and beyond. But after eight months of trying, Democrats are still struggling to move past the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi last Sept. 11 that...

Regarding the March 4 front-page article "To Women, So Much More Than Just a Candidate": I support Sen. Barack Obama because I believe he represents change. I also don't think that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is "so much more than a candidate. " A better headline would have been "To Some Women, So Much More Than Just a Candidate. " I also take exception to Marion Wagner of the National Organization for Women, who said that Mr. Obama's holding a chair for Ms. Clinton was somehow demeaning to her. I would not find it demeaning if a gentleman held...

At first, I thought this week's congressional hearing on the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, last Sept. 11 was giving me a sense of deja vu only because it was our ninth such session on the night Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans lost their lives there, in the not-so-glorified house we called our consulate. But the longer I listened, the more I realized that the moment evoked by the questions and the answers was quite a specific one — the '90s. Once again, Republicans smelled blood.

The extent to which younger women saw Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as a victim of sexism during the presidential primary season may be debatable ["For Younger Women, Clinton Is No Martyr," Health, Aug. 5]. What is not, however, is the effect the senator's campaign has had on a new generation of women who are looking to enter and lead in the political arena. Women such as Kristy Pagan, who was cited in the column, are coming out in droves to learn the nuts and bolts of political leadership.

Those who are trying to make the Benghazi tragedy into a scandal for the Obama administration really ought to decide what story line they want to sell. Actually, by "those" I mean Republicans, and by "the Obama administration" I mean Hillary Clinton. The only coherent purpose I can discern in all of this is to sully Clinton's record as secretary of state in case she runs for president in 2016. That's not a particularly noble way to use the deaths of four American public servants, but at least it's understandable.

In this era of hyperbole absent outcomes, David Rothkopf's Aug. 23 Outlook commentary , "It's 3 a.m. Do You Know Where Hillary Clinton Is?," delivered an unbridled paean to Hillary Rodham Clinton by asserting that she may usher in "a transformation that may render the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush mere side notes in a long transition to a meaningful post-Cold war worldview," a mouthful even if it were true. Perhaps such a shift will come, but she hasn't yet budged Russia, China or India, not to...

TODAY: Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will campaign in Puerto Rico. TOMORROW: Obama gives the commencement address at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., filling in for Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Together Again: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will both be shaking the trees in New York City over the next two days, as the former rivals plan a fundraising swing through Manhattan. Obama will hold a major fundraiser tonight before the two appear together tomorrow morning for an event geared toward female donors. AUG. 25-28 Democratic National Convention SEPT. 1-4 Republican National Convention AUG. 25-28 Democratic National Convention SEPT. 1-4 Republican National Convention

For one hour on Sunday afternoon, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Philippe Reines was behaving most undiplomatically . He had been engaged in a testy e-mail exchange with a journalist who was asking tough but fair questions related to the State Department's handling of the attack in Libya in which the American ambassador was killed — and then Reines escalated. "Why do you bother to ask questions you've already decided you know the answers to?" he asked. "Why don't you give answers that aren't bull[expletive]

Those who are trying to make the Benghazi tragedy into a scandal for the Obama administration really ought to decide what story line they want to sell. Actually, by "those" I mean Republicans, and by "the Obama administration" I mean Hillary Clinton. The only coherent purpose I can discern in all of this is to sully Clinton's record as secretary of state in case she runs for president in 2016. That's not a particularly noble way to use the deaths of four American public servants, but at least it's understandable.

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Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year's deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature...

Aaron David Miller is vice president for new initiatives and a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He served for two decades as an adviser to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state on Arab-Israeli negotiations. George Marshall. Dean Acheson. Henry Kissinger. James Baker. These are the sorts of names you'd see in a Secretary of State Hall of Fame, if such a thing existed. Enshrinement would depend on negotiating a consequential...

A year ago, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley recalls, his political situation was so dire that Hillary Clinton expressed sympathy. The state legislature had adjourned messily without agreeing on a budget. O'Malley (D) was drawing blame for weak leadership. "It looked like you were having a really great session right up until the train wreck," O'Malley remembers Clinton telling him. She was visiting Annapolis for a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy. How different it looks...

No matter what Barack Obama does, he cannot escape the shadow of his former political opponent. Hillary Clinton, back from her global travels visiting places and peoples hardly heard of on this continent, is stealing the spotlight without even touching the stage . President Obama visits the Middle East, makes history as he speaks war to Syria and Iran and peace to Israelis and Palestinians, and the talk back home circles The Big Question:...

Hillary Rodham Clinton 's eight years as first lady were packed with meetings, speeches, foreign travel, fundraising events and her own ambitious early effort to reform the nation's health-care system, her newly released public schedules show. She has said while campaigning for the presidency that those years gave her all the experience she needs for the job. A sampling of her schedules on some of the most consequential days of her husband's presidency contains little evidence that she was deeply involved in those events.

RICHMOND — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, who blasted his Republican rival this week for comparing abortion to slavery, kept silent about a slavery analogy Hillary Rodham Clinton made years ago when he was her campaign chairman. In the midst of her failed bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton compared her push to seat Michigan and Florida delegates to the work of abolitionists . McAuliffe was asked as campaign chairman about her remarks on national television, as the Web...

By reputation, Hillary Rodham Clinton was a great secretary of state. She was indefatigable abroad, loyal to President Obama at home, eloquent and passionate in defining American values, and realistic in applying them to complex realities on the ground. Her approval ratings were sky-high. But the question remains: What did she actually accomplish in the State Department job? Kim Ghattas, the BBC's State Department correspondent since 2008, has written...