Here is what the SOS was trying to convey by her use of the linguistic word "Uh" a few hundred times in her Benghazi testimony. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_disfluency#Fillers Recent linguistic research has suggested that non-pathological disfluencies may contain a variety of meaning; the frequency of "uh" and "um" in English is often reflective of a speaker's alertness or emotional state. Some have hypothesized that the time of an "uh" or "um" is used for the planning of future words; other researchers have suggested that they are actually to be understood as full-fledged function words rather than accidents, indicating a delay of variable time in which the speaker wishes to pause without voluntarily yielding control of the dialogu