Related Post: Text of Hillary Clinton Remarks to House Foreign Affairs Committee (22 April 2009)
Full video of Clinton testimony to House Committee on Foreign Affairs

Hillary Clinton has made headlines this morning with this warning: “I think that we cannot underscore the seriousness of the existential threat posed to the state of Pakistan by continuing advances, now within hours of Islamabad, that are being made by a loosely confederated group of terrorists and others who are seeking the overthrow of the Pakistani state, a nuclear-armed state.”

Clinton has called on the Pakistani people to rise up against the threat in the Northwest Frontier Provinces: “”I don’t hear that kind of outrage and concern coming from enough people that would reverberate back within the highest echelons of the civilian and military leadership of Pakistan.”

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We’re working on an analysis of this extraordinary intervention by the US Secretary of State, but the video of the full hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is on C-Span.

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