The former secretary of state testified for hours today in a politically-charged House hearing about her responsibility in the assassinations of American Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

Here are the headlines:

Mrs. Clinton does not believe she did anything wrong.

The Democrats on the committee do not believe she did anything wrong.

It has now been proved beyond a reasonable doubt that shortly after the attack on September 11, 2012 Hillary Clinton believed it was an organized terror attack … she mentioned the words “al Qaeda-like” to her family.

Nevertheless, she went along with the Obama administration's false narrative that the murders were ignited by an inflammatory video tape.

Most of the testimony today was numbing, almost impossible to sit through.

But there were two nuggets.

The first how Mrs. Clinton herself sees the situation:

CLINTON: “Those requests and issues related to security were rightly handled by the security professionals in the department.  I did not see them, I did not approve them, I did not deny them. ((EDIT)) These issues would not ordinarily come before the secretary of state, and they did not in this case.”

So there you have it, not my job as the head of the State Department … I left it to others to protect Americans overseas.

But the security people, as Mrs. Clinton calls them, failed to protect Ambassador Stevens despite being warned time after time that more security was needed.

REP. MIKE POMPEO (R-KS): “Why has no one been held accountable?  How come not a single person lost a single paycheck connected to the fact we had the first ambassador killed since 1979?” 

((EDIT))

CLINTON: “It is my position that in the absence of finding dereliction or breach of duty, there could not be immediately action taken.”

There was no action taken.

No one in Hillary Clinton's State Department was held responsible for the debacle in Benghazi.

And that is likely to be the end of the story, except for one thing: Hillary Clinton is running for president.

So now we the people have to decide whether she is a leader we can trust.

Millions of Democrats have already made that decision, as have millions of Republicans.

There is no question Mrs. Clinton is loved and loathed to a startling degree.

America needs a strong leader so this country can regain economic momentum and reverse the weakness that is on display throughout the world.

That is what the next election is really all about.

Yes, issues are important, but vision is more important.

Hillary Clinton believes she did the right thing as secretary of state.

All the committees in the world are not going to change her opinion.

My condolences once again to those Americans serving their country who were killed in Benghazi.

It should never have happened.

And that's the memo.