Liberals become enraged when reminded that words have meaning, and that words
spoken by government officials about serious matters really do have
consequences.
OS has been amused to hear the name-calling at
Outside The Beltway
to just such assertions.
Susan Rice will never be Secretary of State. That's because she deliberately
spread misinformation about the attacks on Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Not
just one time, off-hand, but on five different networks, repeating the same
disinformation--that the attacks were 'demonstrations' about a YouTube video
that simply got out of hand.
That story was coming apart at the seams even as she was attempting to sell
it. She never refuted it, never returned to any of those networks to
withdraw it. It was a case of loyalty trumping integrity, and she is shocked to
find that the Senate wants a Secretary of State who is in the habit of telling
the truth.
The Obama White House knew from the get-go that there never was a
demonstration.
They knew it was al-Qaeda.
Obama was too busy fund-raising to bother to rescue those poor
people.
She says she was handed an intelligence briefing, one which the CIA later
disavowed. Apparently, she didn't bother to ask questions before being sent out
to take one for the team.
So, either she knew it was a lie (likely), or was just too lazy to ask questions
(possible). In any case, she was completely willing to go out and try to sell
the implausible story that a disorganized mob armed itself with mortars and
instantly learned how to use them in a coordinated attack viewed real time by
the White House situation room.
It all fell apart, rapidly. She never went back to correct the record, and
salvage her credibility.
Obama won his election, but just like Nixon, the odor of a major scandal lingers
in the air.
And in dangerous times like these, the last thing this country needs is a replay
of that soap opera.
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