We have rules for a reason ...
Posted on 11/27/2012 10:44:11 PM PST by Seizethecarp
“If I wanted to be secretary of state,” Collins observed, “I would not go on television and perform what was essentially a political role.”
Collins drew up a list of questions to ask Rice at their one-on-one hourlong meeting slated for Wednesday. She wants Rice to explain how she could promote a story “with such certitude” about a spontaneous demonstration over the anti-Muslim video that was so at odds with the classified information to which the ambassador had access. (It was also at odds with common sense, given that there were Al Qaeda sympathizers among the rebel army members that overthrew Muammar el-Qaddafi with help from the U.S. — an intervention advocated by Rice — and Islamic extremist training camps in the Benghazi area.)
The F.B.I. interviewed survivors of the attack in Germany and, according to some senators, had done most of the interviews of those on site by Sept. 15, the day before Rice went on TV, and established that there was no protest. Collins wants to learn if the F.B.I. had failed to communicate that, or if they had communicated it and Rice went ahead anyway?
When Rice heard the president of the Libyan National Congress tell Bob Schieffer on “Face the Nation,” right before her appearance, that 50 people had been arrested who were either foreign or affiliated with or sympathized with Al Qaeda, why did she push back with the video story? “Why wouldn’t she think what the Libyan president said mattered?” Collins wondered.
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So true. Dowd mentions that she was "too tired" to go flacking the Obama lies about Benghazi on the Sunday talk shows and then suddenly made absolutely critical trips to Peru and Australia, where she was too engaged to talk about Benghazi.
She's dead-center in the middle of this mess and she is still hiding. Those GOP senators want to get really engaged, call Hillary now, not when she feels like it. Then hang on.
“When Maureen Dowd writes the truth, it’s her way of letting her fellow liars know that these particular lies aren’t working.”
Bingo.
We have rules for a reason ...
Sorry ... didn't mean to post the thumbnail.
There, that's better.
The article reads as if dowd is giving Rice a heads-up about what questions Collins will ask.
Rice was sent out because Obama had already run through the other possible candidates (Hillary, the heads of various services, etc.) he had sent out to take the blame. A lot of them seem to have initially done his bidding, but then when things got hot and they realized there might be legal implications, they changed their stories (or left the country!).
But she stuck it out, either because she’s fanatically loyal to Obama, or more probably because she had been promised the position of SOS.
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