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GOP Senators More Troubled About Benghazi After Talking With Amb. Rice
WBUR-FM ^ | November 27, 2012 | Mark Memmott

Posted on 11/27/2012 10:17:26 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

After meeting with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice this morning, three key Republican senators emerged to say they're more troubled — not less — by what they say were intelligence failures and misleading information concerning the September attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead.

One, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said it's too soon to even be speculating about promoting Rice to be secretary of state.

Congress needs to see "FBI interviews of survivors ... and what was said the night of the attack" about who might be responsible, Graham said, before considering the promotion of anyone who was involved in handling the intelligence before or after the Benghazi attack.

Graham was joined by senators John McCain of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. She said she's "more troubled, not less," after talking with Rice and top U.S. intelligence officials about the attacks.

Though President Obama has not yet nominated anyone to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (who plans to soon leave), McCain, Graham and some other Republicans have already been saying they have doubts about whether Rice should get that job. They say she misled the nation by saying that the attacks may have begun as protests over a anti-Muslim video produced in California...

(Excerpt) Read more at wbur.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: benghazi; johnmccain; libya; rice3senatorsmeeting; ricebenghazi; susanrice
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They'll cave, guaranteed.
1 posted on 11/27/2012 10:17:32 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They may well cave, but this was kind of smart. Bring her in, give her a chance and then criticize her. Very Obama like. Lol


2 posted on 11/27/2012 10:23:36 AM PST by arkfreepdom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Forget Rice. She’s just one more layer of protective coloration around the oval office, which is where the lies started.


3 posted on 11/27/2012 10:24:30 AM PST by I want the USA back
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These yahoos are nothing but hot air. They will conspire and join the enemy.


4 posted on 11/27/2012 10:24:40 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A good question buried in the article. Where are the 30 plus survivors?

Who are they? Why haven't we heard anything from them? Were they muzzled by the Administration? Were they threatened? etc. etc.

5 posted on 11/27/2012 10:25:10 AM PST by Truth29
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
God Bless them for at least trying to do the right thing. We still don't know who denied aid to those brave men who fought for their lives for over 7 hrs.

It is a disgrace that nobody is being held to account.

6 posted on 11/27/2012 10:27:52 AM PST by wmfights
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

McCain and Graham have been joined at the hip for years. Why is Kelly Ayotte now the third member of the McCain caucus? Any time you see McCain and Graham, she is always right behind. Don’t mean to be rude, but her voice sounds perpetually and terminally nervous in interviews.


7 posted on 11/27/2012 10:35:28 AM PST by newheart (The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I couldn’t really care less whether Susan Rice or some other leftist Obama minion gets appointed SoS, but I do hope that our fearless Senators find out who gave the stand down orders that resulted in the unnecessary deaths of our Ambassador and three brave American heroes.


8 posted on 11/27/2012 10:36:24 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

1 - Who invented the lie about protests of the video?
2 - Who (by name) received notice of the calls for help?
3 - The “video motive” was NEVER “the best intel we had at the time”, as NO intel, EVER pointed that direction. So, who told you to run with that story, with regard to the attacks on Benghazi?
4 - Before running off to 5 Sunday a.m. news shows, did you ever ask for proof or dig for details, or are you just a sock-puppet?


9 posted on 11/27/2012 10:36:57 AM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: freekitty
These yahoos are nothing but hot air. They will conspire and join the enemy.

That's what they are paid to do & it's a guarantee that it will happen. (The corrupt "Two-Party Cartel")

10 posted on 11/27/2012 10:39:25 AM PST by Digger
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To: Truth29

Truth29~:” A good question buried in the article. Where are the 30 plus survivors?
Who are they? Why haven’t we heard anything from them? Were they muzzled by the Administration? Were they threatened? etc. etc.”

Therein is the key as to what happened in Benghazi !
While we morn the loss of 4 dedicated foreign service officers , we should NOT overlook that there could have been another 30 more casualties from a lack of action by the administration !

Who issued the call to : “ Stand Down” !

The State Dept. knew and observed in ‘real-time’ what was happening , .. and did nothing (?) . Unfreakenbeleiveable !


11 posted on 11/27/2012 10:39:25 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt ("You can kill a free man,.. you can't enslave him." -Robert Anson Heinlein)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; ...
If the clintons want her as sos, she will be sos. Period.

Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.


12 posted on 11/27/2012 10:41:44 AM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: newheart

She is a Senate newbie looking for a career.

The Club rules are that newbies must be taken under the wing of one or more older members and shown the ropes. It can cross party lines.

The senior Club members get to appear with the newbie and it freshens up their look. The junior member gets someone “looking out for them” and “guiding” them.

IMHO, one of Rubio’s mentors is Menendez, and Rubio sounds like he’s falling right in line, just like Ayotte is.

If House members are glasses of red wine, Senate members are snifters of cognac.


13 posted on 11/27/2012 10:44:33 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves.)
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To: G Larry

G Larry~:” 4 - Before running off to 5 Sunday a.m. news shows, did you ever ask for proof or dig for details, or are you just a sock-puppet?”

Rice had 11 days to the the right information before she did her appearances on the 5 Sunday morning talk shows.
She stated that this was based on “Prelininary intelligence”.
Why was there no followup on her behalf before running with the lie ?
FReepers had more intell a day and a half later than the State Dept . ? We already had the anomolies listed and knew that it was a planned attack with heavy munitions.

All the more reason to question her veracity !
All the more reason to keep the internet free from UN or Federal Government control .


14 posted on 11/27/2012 10:47:34 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt ("You can kill a free man,.. you can't enslave him." -Robert Anson Heinlein)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She’ll be easily confirmed.

.....

She lied. They know she lied. She doesn’t even have the ability to come up with a plausible excuse/reason.


15 posted on 11/27/2012 10:48:04 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

**WHO in the hell gave the damn order to NOT rescue our men in Benghazi?**


16 posted on 11/27/2012 10:49:09 AM PST by Gator113 (**WHO in the hell gave the damn order to NOT rescue our men in Benghazi?**)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Cross Border Authority”

Still no mention by media or politician. The cover up continues.


17 posted on 11/27/2012 10:50:39 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Days of bluster and posturing...

...Followed by a 68-32 vote to confirm. Watch for it.


18 posted on 11/27/2012 10:52:19 AM PST by ScottinVA (I've never been more disgusted with American voters.)
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To: Gator113

It was up to Obama to give the order. He should be the target of attention, not his flunkies like Susan Rice.


19 posted on 11/27/2012 10:52:33 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: ScottinVA

Yep, nothing more than Kabuki Theater.


20 posted on 11/27/2012 10:53:30 AM PST by dfwgator
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