SINCE THE Senate is solely responsible for the confirmation of Cabinet officers, it’s not often that members of the House of Representatives jump into a debate about the nomination of a secretary of state -- particularly before there has been a nomination. That’s one of the reasons a letter sent to President Obama this week by 97 House Republicans, challenging his potential choice of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for the State Department job, is remarkable.
Another is blatant disregard of established facts. Drawn up by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), the letter alleges that “Ambassador Rice is widely viewed as having either willfully or incompetently misled the American public” about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But as congressional testimony has established, Ms. Rice’s comments on several Sunday television talk shows on Sept. 16 were based on talking points drawn up by the intelligence community. She was acting as an administration spokeswoman; there was nothing either incompetent or deliberately misleading about the way she presented the information she was given.
I don't blame Rice for an Obama-friendly narative meant to decieve just before the election. I blame Obama for using someone who he said knew absolutely nothing about Benghazi. He may as well have used some random Joe he found on a street corner if he wanted someone to parrot a bullshit story.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
So, to you, Gen. Petraeus and others in our intelligence community are "bullshit". Remember, the CIA mission at that time was covert and classified until the House GOP and Issa blabbed it to the media to get publicity. You would have our covert agents exposed and placed in even further danger, along with their contacts and informants, just to get dirt before an election.
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