had in the white house. you won t see any of that kind of bipartisan professional, respectful and cooperative interaction tomorrow. here are a couple of sam dash s follow-up questions. it was your understanding that this operated on an ongoing basis daily? the system operated on an ongoing basis daily. yes, sir. to your knowledge, did the president ever ask while he was in the oval office to have the system not operate? the light not the locator not show in that office so as to trigger the device? no, sir. as a matter of fact, the president seemed to be totally really oblivious, or certainly unhibted by this fact. oblivious and unhibted. that is what you will see in the benghazi hearing room tomorrow. you will see members of congress
over most of the questioning to those lawyers who were not elected to anything. but were much better than senators or members of congress at asking witnesses questions. the republican counsel was a young lawyer named fred thompson who would later when a senate seat himself. the counsel for the democrats was sam dash who became a giant media star at the time, both by his performance in the committee room and by handling press questions outside of the hearing room. no senators were jealous of all the media attention that sam dash was getting because they knew that sam dash and fred thompson were doing a better job of conducting this investigation than they could themselves. mr. butterfield, as far as you know for your own personal knowledge, from 1970 then until the present time, all of the president s conversations and the officers mentioned and the
here are a couple of sam dash s follow-up questions. it was your understanding that this operated on an ongoing basis daily? the system operated on an ongoing basis daily. yes, sir. to your knowledge, did the president ever ask while he was in the oval office to have the system not operate? the light not the locator not show in that office so as to trigger the device? no, sir. as a matter of fact, the president seemed to be totally really oblivious, or certainly unhibted by this fact. oblivious and unhibted. that is what you will see in the benghazi hearing room tomorrow. you will see members of congress who are oblivious to what real investigative questioning is and completely uninhibited in exhibiting their obliviousness. you will not see a member of
who are oblivious to what real investigative questioning is and completely uninhibited in exhibiting their obliviousness. you will not see a member of congress ask a simple 11-word question or a simple question of any length that captures the essential purpose of the now very confused benghazi committee. you will not see special counsels to the committee asking questions in a professional nonpolitical manner. because in the committee s previous hearings only members of the committee have been allowed to ask the questions. so unless the chairman is suddenly wise enough to rewrite that policy tomorrow, you will only see members of congress grabbing their moment on camera with their questions. imagine if 21st century versions of fred thompson and sam dash conducted moe of the questioning of hillary clinton tomorrow in that hearing. calm, respectful, careful,
congress ask a simple 11-word question or a simple question of any length that captures the essential purpose of the now very confused benghazi committee. you will not see special counsels to the committee asking questions in a professional nonpolitical manner. because in the committee s previous hearings only members of the committee have been allowed to ask the questions. so unless the chairman is suddenly wise enough to rewrite that policy tomorrow, you will only see members of congress grabbing their moment on camera with their questions. imagine if 21st century versions of fred thompson and sam dash conducted moe of the questioning of hillary clinton tomorrow in that hearing. calm, respectful, careful, nonpartisan questions by a republican lawyer and a democratic lawyer who are not seeking re-election, who are not trying to make head leans, who