Ahead of Wednesday’s long-awaited hearings at the House Oversight and  Government Reform Committee about the Benghazi terror attack of Sep. 11, 2012,  Democrats have a clear agenda: protect Hillary Clinton at all costs.

Clinton, the former Secretary of State and likely frontrunner for the  Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, could be severely damaged by  testimony about the attacks, which occurred in part because of security lapses  for which the State Department is primarily responsible.

Past testimony about the attacks has also revealed that President Barack  Obama did nothing once informed the attacks were under way, and that there was  no communication among key members of the administration and military who could  have responded.