Posted on 08/08/2020 12:56:13 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, rumored to be on Joe Biden’s running mate shortlist, is dismissing what she has described as “harping” from Republicans on her role in the Obama administration's response to the 2012 Benghazi terror attack.
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They left men to die in Benghazi. Thats even if you don’t pay any attention to other deeper issues about what was going on there.
Of course, Rice was Clinton’s “director of peace-keeping” at NSC during the Rwanda genocide. The one where they didn’t do anything.
No, You Are Not Insane. None Of This Makes Any Sense
Kira Davis
Next let us turn to a letter sent by former Amb. Rice’s attorney to Senator Chuck Grassley on February 23, 2018, responding to questions he had directed in writing to former Amb. Rice, including some questions about her January 20 Memorandum and the January 5 meeting. The letter to Sen. Grassley included the following:
The memorandum to file drafted by Ambassador Rice memorialized an important national security discussion between President Obama and the FBI Director and the Deputy Attorney General.
Right there Amb. Rice’s attorney preserves with her language the possibility that only 3 people were in the room when the topics referenced in Amb. Rice’s Memorandum were discussed. She excludes from her description any other participants in this discussion, which is consistent with Yates’ interview with the SCO.
President Obama and his national security team were justifiably concerned about potential risks to the Nation’s security from sharing highly classified information about Russia with certain members of the Trump transition team, particularly Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
This language allows for the later “parsing” to clarify that the “concerns” were the product of discussions between the “national security” team prior to the meeting, not that other members of the national security team were present at the meeting, although that is the most natural reading of the language used. The way the sentence is phrased, one could easily draw the conclusion that the discussion regarding concerns over Gen. Flynn on Russia issues were expressed/discussed in the meeting by other members of the “national security team” — including former Amb. Rice — when, in fact, the actual discussion of Gen. Flynn only took place in the “follow-on” meeting. The letter never addresses who was present in the follow-on meeting — including whether former Amb. Rice was present — as stated in her Jan. 20, 2017 memo.
The letter goes on:
In light of concerning communications between members of the Trump team and Russian officials, before and after the election, President Obama, on behalf of his national security team, appropriately sought the FBI and the Department of Justice’s guidance on this subject.
Once again, the very precise language employed preserved the ability to clarify that only Pres. Obama was present when Gen. Flynn was discussed, and Dir. Comey and Deputy Attorney General Yates were the only officials to whom he addressed his concerns. So we are back to there being only three people in the meeting — just as Sally Yates recalled when answering questions from the SCO investigators.
In the conversation Ambassador Rice documented, there was no discussion of Christopher Steele….
That strikes me as an odd way to describe a meeting that Amb. Rice was present for, and a conversation that she heard or participated in. It is a “third party” phrasing that you would use in order to preserve the potential to explain “Well, I wasn’t there, but I was documenting the conversation based on the description I was given by people who were in attendance.”
… upon the advice of the White House Counsel’s Office, Ambassador Rice created a permanent record of the discussion. Ambassador Rice memorialized the discussion on January 20, because that was the first opportunity she had to do so,….
Again, focus on how much care was taken with the language to not overtly suggest or imply that former Amb. Rice was actually present when the conversation she had supposedly “memorialized” took place.
Ambassador Rice memorialized the discussion in an email sent to herself during the morning of January 20, 2017. The time stamp reflected on the email is not accurate, as Ambassador Rice departed the White House shortly before noon on January 20.
Here is where she might have inadvertently “mouse-trapped” herself. This memorandum was an official government record if she sent it prior to the end of her term as National Security Advisor. If, in fact, she was not present for the “follow-on” meeting when Gen. Flynn was the subject of the conversation between Pres. Obama, Comey, and Yates, then her statement in the memorandum “Vice President Biden and I were also present” during the follow-on meeting she described, is a “false statement”, and a potential violation of 18 USC Sec. 1001.
The statement is material because she is falsely making herself out as a witness to what was said in a meeting that is relevant to any investigation of how the Flynn matter was started, and the natural tendency of her language is to influence investigators to want to interview her.
This leads to the question “Why would she place herself in the room if she wasn’t really there?” And if she wasn’t there, who was her source for the details of the discussion about Gen. Flynn between Comey and Pres. Obama as reflected in the paragraph just now declassified?
If only three people were in the meeting, one of those three had to be the source of the details that she “memorialized.” There seems to be no chance that it was Yates or Comey, so that leaves only Pres. Obama. So what her Memorandum really reflects is Pres. Obama’s version of what was discussed between himself, Comey and Yates.
Andy McCarthy has posited — convincingly in my view — that the true purpose of the Memorandum written by Rice was to allow Pres. Obama to point the finger of blame at Comey for whatever might happen in the aftermath of the transition into power of the Trump Administration. According to Rice’s Memorandum, Pres. Obama told Comey to do everything “by the book”, and if Comey did not do so then Comey — and only Comey — was to blame.
Did Rice put herself present in the room just so she could avoid setting forth in the Memorandum that the details she memorialized had come from Pres. Obama? Was she playing the “loyal soldier” by creating the impression that Obama’s version of the conversation had at least one supporting witness — herself — rather than have it as a “He said, He said” between Pres. Obama and Jim Comey at some future point in time?
Whichever answer is true, neither is a defense to the crime of violating Section 1001.
This is at odds with what Sally Yates told the Special Counsel’s Office (SCO) during an interview on August 15, 2017. The Memorandum of this interview is attached to the DOJ motion to dismiss the prosecution of Gen. Flynn, marked as Exh. 4. In that interview Yates told the SCO the following:
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She remembers Behghazi? Didn’t think she’d be able to recall it.
Evil lying bitch
Benghazi isn’t an issue to most people. It should be, but it’s not. I bet it you asked 100 people who Ambassador Chris Stevens was, less than five would know. And those five are already voting for Trump anyway.
Hillary’s designated liar. /spit
Ads with her repeated lies pointing out President Susen Rice is a very real possibility in the first term.
Im feeling better and better about Trump’s chances.
Rice’s infamous “zombie” email on Trump’s Inauguration Day about the origins of the invented Russia collusion fable was a “get out of jail” card for the Obama criminals......including Biden.
When Susan Rice stupidly wrote a CYA memo to herself, she inadvertently confessed to a series of crimes that added the time line and inferences about what the outgoing Obama administration illegally concealed from incoming President Trump and his aides.
Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from her successor during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.
What these criminals did was an attempt to craft a bogus record of a ‘COUNTER-INTEL’ operation that was ongoing and that Obama had instructed that everything be done ‘by the book’.
BECAUSE during a counter-intel investigation, it is permissible to lie, or in official terms ‘to disseminate disinformation’.
As long as the Obama spying was characterized as a counter-intel operation, it was legal to have words and actions left in place that might be discovered as untrue.
In other words, Rice’s final memo was an attempt to carve out a last minute get-out-of-jail pass for all those involved in the spying.
Rice likely foresaw that Congressional hearings might uncover false and perjured statements on the part of persons in the spy operation to which the response would be “So what? It was a Counter-Intel operation.”
This is why it was IMPERATIVE for Barr and Durham to investigate the ORIGINS because if the origins revealed no predicate, no basis, no genuine probable cause for launching a counter-intel operation, then Rice’s feeble stay-out-of-jail memo would fall apart.
Start blaming Her Directly, force her to defend her actions, throw Hitlery in the mix too, Blame Both of them Directly, hell run commercials of the two of them sipping wine while Americans are Being Slaughtered....
She put an innocent man in prison as a scapegoat.
Keep in mind, all of this is a ploy.......sadistic Democrats gleefully sowing confusion among the electorate in a 1000 ways——
They’re so perfect at sowing confusion into the political milieu with a lie, a smile, an apology, an excuse.
Its all so terribly, terribly Democratic. It has only just begun.
““harping” from Republicans on her role in the Obama administration’s response to the 2012 Benghazi terror attack.”
Yep. That sorry episode was a raw deal. It happened in 2012, 8 years ago. No real political damage was inflicted on Obama, Hillary and Rice then. I’d be surprised if much damage occurs now but maybe Trump’s team can figure something out and enlighten people who forgot about it or maybe never knew what happened.
Exactly. She, along with Obama willingly sacrificed the lives of good men for absolutely no other reason than political expediency. There is simply no other valid explanation. Similarly, Rwanda was simply a raw political calculus as well.
Hey, Suz...Americans died. We will harp.
I think Rice was another trial balloon that got shot down.
That is one arrogant, cold-hearted female canine.
She would be a lot less arrogant and cold-hearted if she underwent what happened to Ambassador Stevens. Even if is was “only” death from smoke inhalation (which we will never know FOR SURE if it was or wasn’t).
I wonder if she knows who those bloody handprints on the corner of the wall belonged to? If so, she doesn’t care. If asked, she’d just say she “doesn’t recall”.
Unless she turns a corner very soon and repents of her actions, she’s going to have a very uncomfortable eternity in the Lake of Fire, along with those she serves (both human and otherwise).
Her performance under the Clinton’s reign of terror should be enough to worry the Dems.
Man o man, that is COLD
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