Rice: No time to think about Benghazi 'false controversy'

The Hill ^ | 12/23/13 | Peter Sullivan

[Libloather]

National Security Advisor Susan Rice expressed no regrets over her interviews following the assault on the American consolate in Benghazi, Libya, saying she does not have time to think about an issue blown out of proportion. [WATCH VIDEO]

“I don’t have time to think about a false controversy,” Rice said in an interview that aired Sunday night on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” “In the midst of all of the swirl about things like talking points, the administration’s been working very, very hard across the globe to review our security of our embassies and our facilities. That’s what we ought to be focused on.”

Rice became mired in a controversy that stood in the way of her becoming secretary of state after she called the attack in Benghazi spontaneous on the Sunday morning talk shows, while it later came out that it was a planned attack. The administration says she was expressing the intelligence at the time.

Correspondent Lesley Stahl asked Sunday why then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not appear on the shows instead; Rice defended her.

“She had just gone through an incredibly painful and stressful week,” Rice said. “Secretary Clinton, as our chief diplomat, had to reach out to the families, had to greet the bodies upon their arrival at Andrews Air Force Base. If I were her, the last thing I would have wanted to do is five Sunday morning talk shows. So I think it’s perfectly understandable.”

On one of the controversies plaguing the administration today, the National Security Agency’s spying, Rice defended the actions of intelligence agencies, but left the door open for some changes, as President Obama seemed to do in his press conference Friday as well.

“It's been worth what we've done to protect the United States,” Rice said. “And the fact that we have not had a successful attack on our homeland since 9/11 should not be diminished. But that does not mean that everything we're doing as of the present ought to be done the same way in the future.”

In her last question on Benghazi, Stahl raised the point that if Rice had not done the interviews she might be called Madam Secretary at the moment.

“Well you can call me Susan,” Rice replied.

[Libloather]

She's busy.

[BenLurkin]

No one died in Watergate.

Was that “blown out of proportion?”

[circlecity]

I’m too busy to consider the implications of lying to millions of people.

[madison10]

False controversy!?

[certrtwngnut]

“Blown out of proportion”?
Ask the loved ones of the four dead how “blown out of proportion” this is.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Well you can call me Susan,” Rice replied.

We won't make the mistake of calling you "Condi." /S

[what's up]

The administration says she was expressing the intelligence at the time.

She's a liar. The CIA told the administration it was a terror attack from the get go.

[Shimmer1]

This is the answer of a psychopathic person. DON’T LOOK AT THAT (what I did), LOOK OVER HERE (where my hand is flapping)!!!!

I just got a FB post from PsychopathFree and it sounds just like this airbag Susan Rice.

[Venturer]

4 people’s lives don’t amount to squat.

Nice attitude.

Blown out of proportion??????????????? hardly .

It never received the attention it should have, thank yo a complacent media anxious to perform a sex act with Hillary and Obama.

[optiguy]

And the fact that we have not had a successful attack on our homeland since 9/11 should not be diminished

I guess if you declare an act of terrorism "workplace violence", this holds true. Was the Boston Marathon a "sports injury"?

[DeaconRed]

60 GD MINUTES Needs to stay the hell away from Benghazi, they WILL NOT report the truth or even come close to it.
Susan Rice is a complete idiot just like her boss.

[jimfree]

The woman is a slut of the first order.

[cuban leaf]

I agree that we should avoid the false controversy and go straight for the crimes that are alleged and let the chips fall where they may.

[Cowboy Bob]

She is under the false impression that she is somehow immune from prosecution.

[knarf]

I killed 4 people and I don't want to be investigated, it's too time consuming, so I think we should all be working to find out what the families of those 4 people were doing before those 4 people entered public service.

THAT makes just as much sense.

[leprechaun9]

Susan “Lois Lerner” Rice is from the same mold - and it stinks!

[Carriage Hill]

“Well you can call me Susan,” Rice replied.

I’ve got plenty of other names for you, treasonous bitch.

[Liz]

This two-bit nothing pumps her resume non-stop. Lots of
slammed shut when she stupidly went on TV talk w/ a
written script----about a "fictional video" causing
the slaughter of four Americans.

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60 Minutes is always ready to suckup to Dumbocrats.

OBAMA HILLARY LOVE FEST ON 60 MINUTES---Obobo had
just hustled Hillary onto 60 Minutes to gaze in adoration, after her arrogant
dismissal of the Benghazi massacre before Congress.

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MILITARY.COM reported that US Pentagon officials declined to give specifics on conversations between DOD's Chuck Hagel and Egyptian Gen al-Sisi....WRT the post-Morsi Egyptian crisis.

Although the officials would not discuss the specifics of the military-to-military talks, the U.S. would need Gen al-Sisi's approval to move through Egyptian air space if Washington decided to send Marines to aid in the evacuation of U.S. personnel.

READY TO ROLL About 550 Marines and their tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey aircraft are at bases in Spain and Italy on standby if they are needed. A Navy Amphibious Ready Group with 4,000 Marines and sailors aboard, led by the helicopter assault ship Kearsarge, was also in the region following completion of the Eager Lion training exercises in Jordan.

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AIN'T KARMA A *ITCH, HILLARY?...... the helicopter assault ship Kearsarge, WAS in the region. We were lied to----we were told it was not available to help endangered Americans in Benghazi.

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FIVE SECOND BENGHAZI QUIZ

(Q.) Who holds the key to unlocking the Benghazi secrets Obama and Hillary will not divulge?

(A.) That would be Egyptian Gen Al-Sisi who drove blood-thirsty Muslims out of Egyptian politics and has vowed to rebuild the 63 churches torched by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Right now, sitting in an Egyptian jail is a man al-Sisi arrested for inciting terrorism. That man is Gehad al Hadad....once employed by the tax-exempt Clinton Foundation.

THE CLINTONS IN-HOUSE MUSLIM TERRORIST the Clintons tax-exempt foundation employed a Muslim Brotherhood activist.

Gehad el-Haddad
(The stupid Clintons did not know Gehad was Farsi for "jihad")

Gehad also knows how the Muslim Brotherhood launders money to finance terrorism, using "tax-exempt foundations."

As far as I know, Egypt does not have any limitations on obtaining information from terrorists---like prohibiting waterboarding, etc.

Rest assured---we will know everything---all in good time.

[SADMILLIE]

Why was the ambassador there with 31 CIA “weapons experts”? Why won’t they talk? What were they doing? Were they paying the al Qaeda to get back stinger missiles that Hillary gave them to fight Qaddafi?
Obama presidency is not legitimate. It was obtained with lies. If the American electorate had been told the truth about Benghazi and OBAMAcare, he would have lost in a landslide. We need a mulligan!!

[Doogle]

...she told the lie because Hilda was too busy telling lies to the relatives of the murdered agents....then she fell and bump her head and couldn’t testify until everyone got their story straight...Even then when she testified SHE WAS NOT UNDER OATH!