Condi Rice Pours Cold Water On ‘Benghazi-Gate’

[DonViejo]

Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice broke with the majority of her party last night on Fox News, as she tried to hit the brakes on the right wing’s politicization of the recent attack in Libya.

Host Greta Van Susteren asked Rice directly and repeatedly about a set of emails uncovered by Reuters. In what has been dubbed “Benghazi-Gate,” the conservative media has jumped on the emails as definitive proof that the Obama administration has been lying about what it knew and when in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attack on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Rice’s response was likely not what Van Susteren expected:

RICE: But when things are unfolding very, very quickly, it’s not always easy to know what is really going on on the ground. And to my mind, the really important questions here are about how information was collected. Did the various agencies really coordinate and share intelligence in the way that we had hoped, with the reforms that were made after 9/11?
So there’s a big picture to be examined here. But we don’t have all of the pieces, and I think it’s easy to try and jump to conclusions about what might have happened here. It’s probably better to let the relevant bodies do their work.

Watch Rice’s full interview here:

more:
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/25/1089691/condi-rice-pours-cold-water-libya/

[Swede Atlanta]

1. She won't be invited back to Faux News again....

[courseofhistory]

2. Good! It's

about time someone put this hysteria in perspective!

[Squinch]

3. Nice surprise from her. Maybe she's trying to work off the "mushroom cloud" karma.

[Supersedeas]

9. Good luck with that

[amborin]

4. good for her

[PsychProfessor]

5. This is good to hear

I have occasionally looked at conservative message boards and this Benghazi thing is ALL they are talking about. I am surprised that there seems to be very little talk about polls or getting out the vote. Just weird.

[Wilms]

6. It's the least she can do.

Particularly when you consider how poor Eric Holder has to take time away from raiding cannabis dispensaries in order to go to court to protect the previous administrations war criminals.

[jimlup]

7. Only the Republicans and MSM

think that there is anything at all here. Everyone else realizes this is just partisan politics. The media either doesn't get that simple idea or is extremely naive about it.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

8. God, Actual Integrity

From a bushkateer.

Shocking, I tell you, shocking.

[BlueInPhilly]

10. I think she is a secret Obama supporter

Really. Since 2008.