A group of GOP senators are pressing U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over her statements that the Benghazi attack was the result of a “spontaneous reaction.”
Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) wrote Rice, telling her that she made “several troubling statements that are inconsistent with the facts and require explanation.”
On Meet the Press on Sept. 16, Rice said, “What happened in Benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in Cairo, almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video.” Speaking on Fox News Sunday, she said, “We are of the view that this is not an expression of hostility in the broader sense toward the United States or U.S. policy. It’s approximately a reaction to this video…”
On Sept. 14, Libyan President Mohamed Yousef el Magariaf said the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was “preplanned.” When she followed the Libyan leader two days later on Face the Nation, Rice again described the attacks as “spontaneous” and said the attacks were not “preplanned.”
“You repeatedly asserted the implausible explanation that the attack in Benghazi was a spontaneous reaction to the video despite growing evidence to the contrary,” the senators wrote.
“You were surely aware of these facts on September 16 when you made your remarks. Yet, these facts, including the unlikely coincidence that the attack was conducted on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, did not prevent you from making confident and counterintuitive assertions to the contrary.”
The Republicans demanded a response from Rice explaining “how the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations could characterize an attack on a U.S. consulate so inaccurately five days after a terrorist attack that killed four Americans.”
Unbelievably stupid of the regime to hammer the “spontaneous” explanation right off the bat. Usually you want to say “we don’t know at this point,” even if you know perfectly well. What genius decided to have Amb. Rice do all the shows. Her credibility is now shot.
“Credibility” my *ss. She’s been a lying piece o’sh*t from the get-go. Send her to Libya with NO escort (and make sure they know where and when she is going to arrive). Film at 11:00.
And put Hillary and Obama on the plane with her.
This is laughable coming from the same crew that attacked Michele Bachmann for shining light on the Mooslimification of the State Department…just give the details of ‘Ambassador’ (what a sick joke) Rice’s itinerary to Huma and she’ll make sure the mooslims know about it. Incompetent buffoons at play ie: The ‘professional diplomats’ working within the United States Department of State. What a sick freakin joke headed by the buffoon Queen of the Thighs and her ‘partner’ Huma aka: The Source….God, please help us
By God, I am going to just say it: how in the hell could these MORONS actually appoint an openly gay ambassador to such a backwards armpit mooslim hellhole, then refuse to give him the physical security THAT HE ASKED FOR, and sit back in amazement when he is raped and murdered by these 7th century, unevolved, barbaric, stoopid/illiterate, hypocritical, savage, perverted, child raping pigs? What did they think would happen to him if he were to be abducted by mooslims? He is the LAST person that should have been an ambassador to a mooslim country!! Then REFUSE him the security he asked for? His blood is on Hillary-Huma- and Beerick’s (correct mooslim pronunciation) hands; an openly gay man was just a target for these barbaric animals, especially without protection. Unbelievably stoopid.
One plausible, purely bureaucratic reason….”how in the hell could these MORONS actually appoint an openly gay ambassador to such a backwards armpit mooslim hellhole…” is that if the State Department’s personnel policy on someone who is openly gay is that she/he is not then open to blackmail over such essentials as a security clearance, or personal life characteristics….then that person is much less vulnerable than one who is “closeted” and threatened with exposure…and open to blackmail into revealing State secrets.
That in itself, of course, does not excuse/explain the terrible cultural naivete at State for sending an openly gay man to a strictly homophobic country.
State’s zeal at appearing open-minded and new-think on domestic questions here in America in their personnel policies is revealed here as the stupidity of naifs concerned with appointments to Muslim closed-mindedness arenas.
Generalized “Affirmative action” is simply inapplicable towards sexual mores in the Muslim controlled arenas. Tragically, folks at State didn’t see that.
Maybe they will now.
We can comment all we want about the crassness, and ineptitude of this current “administration”, while they’re setting precedents for nadir-standards for our White House, State and the separate Gilbert&Sullivan U.N….it can’t change the damage already done to these once well-thought-of organizations.
Our severe national problem is that the lemmings who voted Obama & co.,Limited, couldn’t care less…..couldn’t care less…. about all of this rancid stuff….all they care about is stickin’ it to th’ Man.
We’re stuck in the rut of mediacracy…the smug liberal mediacracy.
Okay, I understand the letter to Susan Rice but why aren’t they demanding answers from Obama and Clinton??!! Rice is nothing but cannon fodder for the Regime.
And why is it always McCain and Graham? Every member of Congress should be demanding an explanation as well as a list of corrective actions taken to prevent this utter failure from happening again!
And oh, by the way Mitt. This is a CAMPAIGN ISSUE.