Posted on 09/29/2012 5:35:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Pete King is calling on U.N. ambassador Susan Rice to resign over her comments on the Sunday talk shows September 16 regarding the Libyan attacks.
I think Susan Rice should resign. She is Americas foreign policy spokesman to the world as ambassador to the U.N., King, a Republican congressman from New York, tells National Review Online.
Rice appeared on five Sunday morning shows five days after the attacks. On ABCs This Week, she said, Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous not a premeditated response to what had transpired in Cairo, despite the fact that U.S. officials knew terrorism was involved in the attacks within 24 hours after the attack.
Very nice person, very smart, King says of Rice, but the fact is she gave out information which was either intentionally or unintentionally misleading and wrong and there should be consequences for that. And I dont see how she didnt know how that that information was wrong. What she could have and should have said was the final word isnt in yet, certainly strong evidence that there was strong terrorist involvement, [but identifying] the exact nature itll take us a few more days. That would have been legitimate.
King also called for an investigation into what was known before the attack. This warrants a full investigation, he says. I believe there should be a congressional investigation. I think there should be an internal investigation.
Benghazi, he adds, was a hotbed of al-Qaeda activity, of militia activity, of terrorist activity. We knew that the facilities that we were using there were not adequately fortified. These were temporary, basically private residences which had almost none of the protections that a consulate should have.
To allow the American ambassador to go there, he continues, to allow us to keep records or documentation there or anything in such an unsecure and such a dangerous area and such unsecure facilities with such little security appears to be gross negligence, and may be criminal negligence.
He also criticized the administrations reluctance to call the attacks terrorism. Either they intentionally mislead the American people or they were extremely uninformed, King remarks. Neither excuse is very good. From the start, I can see them saying were not certain what caused it, but the presumption from the start should have been that it was a terrorist attack or the terrorist were heavily involved.
Obama, he speculates, had political reasons to avoid calling it terrorism. What I believe now is that the president is so fixated on convincing the American people that we have defeated al-Qaeda and that al-Qaeda is no longer a real threat by saying this was a terrorist attack, or by acknowledge a terrorist attack, it would be looked upon as a defeat for his policies against al-Qaeda, King says.
It’s obvious that Susan Rice was only repeating what she was told to say. She did a very good job of lying, too. She seems to be quite talented.
Oblamer only needs a temporary scapegoat, though. He won’t get rid of her.
In truth, she's the Obama proxy, in every sense imaginable.
I can’t believe the “very nice person, very smart.”
Everything’s so touchy-feely now and I can’t stand all the excuses the Rs make for the Ds.
I understand that during Netanyahu’s speech this week to the U.N., Amb Susan Rice skipped it for lunch with Hillary Clinton. The foreign policy debacle continues until we fire them all by electing Mitt Romney.
Susan Rice may be all those things that you said, but she is Obama’s appointee and represents his administration. She cannot really do or say anything that is in opposition to the Obama administration.
I am not going to play the blame game with Obama. Obama is the Chief Executive. He has the full responsibility, even if someone under him fails, it is his fault.
The night of 9/11/12 was like the play, “Waiting for Godot”. People on the West Coast were sitting in front of their TVs following the events in the Middle East and waiting to hear from the president, but he was too busy partying and fund raising.
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