Posted on 12/23/2013 7:44:20 AM PST by 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.
And I guess Boston, or the Muslim Jihadi Major attacks at the Army base, or any other of a number of incidents aren't attacks on the homeland to this bitch.
We have found the enemy and it is liars, deceivers, criminals, socialists, totalitarians.
No time to think about sending Rice her paycheck, no time to think about hiring Rice’s personal bodyguards when she’s traveling out of the country,
I hope she gets the prison cell next to dumBO.
There is no profanity adequate to respond.
The 4 Deaths were “blown out of proportion” or was it your lies about the video, to cover up a terrorist attack?
Or was it Obama’s refusal to rescue Americans?
Ping.
Not that I recall... 
but maybe I am not remembering it correctly--
Okay, you two... 
way in the back.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Washington Post... 
Mr. President, have you any comment on the break in at the Watergate?
No, Mr. Woodward, I've no time... 
for such a 'false controversy' like that.
Fine, Mr. President. I'll call the paper... 
and tell them to kill the story.
Thanks, boys... 
you two are credit to journalism.
She’s working on her lie-ography
I wouldn’t feel badly if Rice was “offed”. I certainly wouldn’t give her a second thought either.
I hope Amb Stevens haunts her every day of her sorry life.
Yea, Susan, that's a "false" controversy, alright...sort of like all of your "Phoneuy" scandals.
Susie,Affirmative Action is reaching a level where you can no longer be hidden!
the parents of the Benghazi dead have the rest of their lives to think about what you said and did, Sue
Wow, Jour-whore-nalsist were so awesome back then....
the Nigerian underwear bomber did not blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas because he was tackled by passengers, not by the uS government
Don’t get my hopes up!
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