“We were very aggressive in responding to the drought but all of it was after the fact,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We made money available for technical assistance after the fact. We provided disaster loan assistance and extended grazing aid after the fact. We purchased surplus product after the fact.”

With droughts likely to become more frequent and widespread as the climate warms, “we have to adjust to this new normal and we have to understand what it means to be proactive instead of just reacting,” he said.

- Program designed to help prepare for droughts, AP, November 15, 2013.

2. Thomas Pickering, the 81-year-old retired diplomat who headed the State Department’s investigation into the terror attacks in Benghazi, told CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday that he didn’t believe it was necessary to ask then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton any questions, because “we had questioned people who had attended meetings with her.”

Pickering said the Accountability Review Board, which he headed, already knew “where the responsibility rested,” because Clinton “had already stated on a number of occasions she accepted, as a result of her job, the full responsibility.”

Moreover, Pickering said he sees no reason to question Clinton now: “I don’t think that there was anything there that we didn’t know.”

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