By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--April 3, 2017
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"This extends far beyond hypocrisy coming from a person who visited five Sunday talk shows to peddle administration falsehoods about the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya. In addition, she served in those positions during a period of other disastrous foreign policy decisions--deceptively sold to the American people--such as the Iran nuclear deal and the entire Libyan debacle. (AIM) "Regarding her appearance on five Sunday shows the weekend following the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Rice said that "Based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present, is in fact it began spontaneously in Benghazi,--as a reaction to what had transpired hours earlier in Cairo, where of course as you know there was a violent protest outside of our embassy, sparked by this hateful video." "In other words, Rice lied and said that the origin of the Benghazi attacks was a protest sparked by the "Innocence of Muslims" video. In reality, the attacks were premeditated and organized by jihadists who attacked the U.S. Special Mission compound without warning. "Again, sir," said former head of AFRICOM General Carter Ham, "I think, you know, there was some preliminary discussion about, you know, maybe there was a demonstration. But I think at the command, I personally and I think the command very quickly got to the point that this was--not a demonstration, this was a terrorist attack." That discussion took place between Ham and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey the night of the attack. "As we have pointed out, Rice was preceded on CBS's "Face the Nation" by Mohamed El-Magariaf, then Libyan National Congress president, who characterized the attacks as "preplanned" and perpetrated by extremists. In her comments immediately following Magariaf's, Rice stuck to the false story that this was really about the YouTube video. "But where did Rice get these ideas in the first place? The Washington Examiner reported that the House Select Committee on Benghazi found that "before going on TV, Rice was briefed only by Obama's political team, not anyone from the--FBI, CIA or the Defense Department." In other words, Rice was peddling an official administration narrative. "Yet Rice has the gall to lecture President Trump about truthfulness when she and Obama were caught telling numerous lies. It also shows the lengths that The Washington Post will go to in its constant campaign to discredit and undermine the Trump presidency. Rice writes, "To lead effectively, the United States must maintain respect and trust. So, when a White House deliberately dissembles and serially contorts the facts, its actions pose a serious risk to America's global leadership, among friends and adversaries alike."
"The appointments will prevent President-elect Donald Trump from naming anyone to the panel until 2020, the year he is up for re-election. "The president has the authority to appoint four of the eight members of the commission, while two are named by the president pro tempore of the Senate and two by the speaker of the House. "In late November, Congressional Republicans warned Obama against naming political appointees into career-service government jobs, according to The Washington Times. "Republicans have accused Democrats of working to enable political appointees to 'burrow in' to career positions within the federal bureaucracy just as the incoming Trump administration prepares to fill 4,000 positions."For the impatient among us, this is what the Trump administration is up against. On the outside, Hollywood and entertainment industry activists and the MSM continue to portray Trump as "Hitler-like" in all four corners of the Earth; that someone will crop up to either impeach or assassinate him a favorite dream. On the inside, the path to a safe and secure America is boobytrapped with knife-throwers waiting to rise from the swamp whenever the time seems right. Obama's top flight lieutenants never went away when the most destructive president in American history 'left' the White House, they bunkered down on innocent sounding boards of trustees where they continue to undermine America to the present day. Professional agitators Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett should be dumped from the membership of any government agency of the day.
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