$ 0 0 Obama’s State Department is using taxpayer dollars to practice committing perjury at congressional hearings: “After suffering through a striking number of rough grillings at the hands of Congress, State Department officials have approved a contract worth up to $545,000 to help train themselves for how to brief lawmakers and to testify at hearings… Over the last two years, department officials have stumbled through hearings on their handling of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, been berated for failing to be able to lay out a new legal framework for the war on terror and seen one top campaign bungler for President Obama admit he’d never traveled to Argentina — the country he’d been nominated to serve in as U.S. ambassador… Leslie Paige, spokeswoman for Citizens Against Government Waste, said if officials were doing their jobs correctly, the money wouldn’t be needed. “All they have to do is sit there at a microphone, read their testimony and answer questions truthfully, honestly and thoroughly and explain to the American people what they’re doing,” Ms. Paige said… “It is congressional testimony. So just cough up the facts, because that’s all we really need from you.”