Posted on 06/05/2013 8:08:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a move that is already angering Republican lawmakers, President Obama will name as his next national security adviser Susan Rice, the administration official who delivered (but did not draft) the talking points that downplayed the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya on Sunday television shows in September five days after the incident.
Rice, who is now the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was informally floated to be Obama’s pick late last year to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. But she withdrew her name from the process after key Republican senators like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, expressed reservations about the pick over the Benghazi episode.
After the Benghazi attack, Rice delivered the talking points that attributed the attack to a demonstration against an Internet video that was offensive to Muslims. FBI investigators have since found evidence the mission was cased the morning before the attack and carried out by attackers linked to jihadist organizations affiliated with al Qaeda like Ansar al-Sharia.
Jason Chaffetz, one of the leading Republican House members investigating the Benghazi attack said Rice was a terrible choice to lead the president’s national security staff. “It’s curious the president selected her for a position that does not require Senate confirmation, there is no way she could get through that process,” he said. “I am sure she is a nice person but she lacks judgment. She claims to have read the daily intelligence brief and anyone who was following what was happening in Libya would have known terrorism was likely a factor in the incident in Benghazi.”
Not all Republicans were as negative. Sen. John McCain tweeted Wednesday morning, "Obviously I disagree w/ POTUS appointment of Susan Rice as Nat'l Security Adviser, but I'll make every effort to work w/ her on imp't issues." Chaffetz first reached out to Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli on the night of the Benghazi attacks. Hicks testified last month before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he told Hillary Clinton on the night of the attacks that it was an act of terror.
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It’s a consolation prize for her.
“Susan Rice Is a Terrible Choice For National Security Adviser”
Given president hussein’s orientation, isn’t that the whole point?
Bush could have but didn’t evoke EP. O will he has for lesser causes
KT McFarlaine was on FOX this morning saying the same thing
“... the protection of Executive Priviledge.”
She wasn’t at the time in question. Is executive privilege ex post facto?
There lies the problem. Congress will argue she’s not covered. O will say she is. DC judge ( most are in O pocket) will adjudicate. It will be appealed SCOTUS will decide for congress
But time will have passed. That’s his game : run out the clock and do as much damage as he can while it is ticking!
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