{"id":16583,"date":"2012-11-28T16:56:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16583"},"modified":"2012-11-28T16:56:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:56:36","slug":"susan-rice-seems-cooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16583\/susan-rice-seems-cooked\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Rice Seems Cooked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day of congressional testimony for Susan Rice comes with more indications<\/a> the Ambassador to the United Nations will not become the next Secretary of State.<\/p>\n

But do pity Ms. Rice, at least a smidge.\u00a0 With the finger-pointing circus around the Benghazi, Libya fiasco, it\u2019s hard to keep the story straight on what exactly happened and who was responsible for hiding that information from the American people.<\/p>\n

To clarify things, The Blaze<\/a> website (quoting Buzzfeed<\/a>) lists at least five official versions of the truth from the Obama Administration:<\/p>\n

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  1. References were removed to not tip off al-Qaeda and were substituted with \u201cextremists,\u201d according to David Petraeus.<\/li>\n
  2. The links to al-Qaeda were too \u201ctenuous\u201d to make public by the Directorate of National Intelligence because the source wasn\u2019t trusted.<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cThe talking points were debated and edited by a collective of experts from around the intelligence community,\u201d not just DNI, according to a DNI spokesman.<\/li>\n
  4. The CIA told Senators McCain, Graham, and Ayotte the FBI removed references to al-Qaeda from the talking points \u201cto prevent compromising an ongoing criminal investigation.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. The CIA later called Senators McCain, Graham, and Ayotte back, saying they had misspoken to them and that they \u2013 not the FBI \u2013 had edited the talking points.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    On the bright side for Ambassador Rice, so far none of the misrepresentations have implicated her or her office as the source of the misinformation.\u00a0 At most (so far), we\u2019ve got diplomatic (Rice and Hillary Clinton) personnel parroting information from the intelligence community whose job it is to resource diplomats.<\/p>\n

    As I understand it, it\u2019s the DNI, CIA, etc.\u2019s job to gather, interpret, and communicate information so that the diplomatic arm of the federal government can use it.\u00a0 Sure, more and better questions seemingly should have been asked by Clinton and Rice, but ultimate responsibility for knowing and articulating what happened in Benghazi rests somewhere in the alphabet soup of the intelligence community.\u00a0 Those lines of responsibility won\u2019t change if Rice replaces Clinton at State.<\/p>\n

    Cold comfort, though, since it looks like scuttling Rice\u2019s nomination will be the only chance the Administration\u2019s critics get to actualize their displeasure.\u00a0 Welcome to Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Another day of congressional testimony for Susan Rice comes with more indications the Ambassador to the United Nations will not become the next Secretary of State. But do pity Ms. Rice, at least a smidge.\u00a0 With the finger-pointing circus around the Benghazi, Libya fiasco, it\u2019s hard to keep the story straight on what exactly happened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3862,84,2436,3277,24,1653,3863,169],"class_list":["post-16583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-benghazi","tag-congress","tag-libya","tag-nomination","tag-obama","tag-secretary-of-state","tag-susan-rice","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16583"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16591,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions\/16591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}