Posted on 10/16/2012 7:30:08 AM PDT by Qbert
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the reason the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, gave misinformation to the American people is because of the "fog of war." According to the notes of Wendell Goler of Fox News, here's what Clinton had to say:
On Rice ‘grew out of a protest’ assertions: “the fog of war. The confusion you get in any type of combat situation. Remember this was an attack that went on for hours…there had to be a lot of sorting out…everyone said here’s what we know subject to change.”
Clinton's excuse for Rice is because the U.N. ambassador went on five Sunday talk shows and said in several different ways that the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya "grew out of a protest" outside the American consulate there.
That is not at all what happened. Apparently the fog of war was too thick for Rice to accurately say what happened there. In fact, the State Department now says there was no protest at all outside the consulate there.
Instead, the attack that killed the American ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans was the direct result of a planned and coordinated al Qaeda terrorist attack that was aimed at coinciding with the anniversary of the greatest al Qaeda attack again America in history, 9/11.
The attack took place five days before Rice went on those shows and made those false assertions. But only now is the fog beginning to clear.
Clinton also said today that "the buck stops with her," according to CNN.
I can’t wait for the book: “Benghazi Hil and the Fog of War”
The fog of war or the fog of politics?
Obama ran for the hills and told Hillary to fix it.
Hillary made up some crazy story how the Libyans had carried the injured ambassador to the hospital after the riots. Then they showed photos of armed men dragging the beaten and dead body of the ambassador through the streets.
The cover story of the youtube video was a stretch but with the help of the media it almost worked. Twenty years ago the media would have let it pass, damned conservatives.
Hillary doesn’t need to make excuses for Susan Rice, she doesn’t work for Hillary. Obama made the UN Ambassador a cabinet level position so she reports directly to Obama.
"On September 14, two days before Rice went on the Sunday shows, Hillary said at the ceremony at Andrews AFB with the four flag-draped caskets in the background that..."...We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with."
Did the "fog of war" last until Friday? Hillary was still pushing the video. The State Department had real time contact with the consulate during the attack and the 25 personnel who survived the attack and were evacuated were debriefed a day later. This is ludicrous that Rice was unaware of the facts five days after the attack."
Yep- great point.
"Hillary doesn’t need to make excuses for Susan Rice, she doesn’t work for Hillary. Obama made the UN Ambassador a cabinet level position so she reports directly to Obama."
Yep.
The Obama media may think this "acceptance of responsiblity" sweeps the issue under the rug (timed, of course, predictably for the day of the second debate), but it only raises more, serious questions. They can't lie their way out of this one.
Hillary was exactly right, it was the “fog of war”. The war was in the white house over how best to blame anyone else for Obama’s failed policies.
Fog of War?
With this administration it’s Stupor Of Incompetence.
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