Susan Rice: No Regrets On Benghazi Comments

by JASmius

Given that she was rewarded with a promotion from UN ambassador to National Security Advisor for her mendatious efforts, no bleep:

Making her first Sunday morning appearance since the Sunday after the 2012 Benghazi attacks, National Security Adviser Susan Rice says she has no regrets on her words that day which have drawn scrutiny ever since.

"Because what I said to you that morning and what I did every day since is to share the best information that we had at the time," Rice told "Meet the Press" host David Gregory.

Bullbleep.  They saw the whole event in real time.  They knew exactly what was happening and why and what caused it, but because "Looks like al Qaeda isn't so 'dead' after all" looked really bad less than two months from the 2012 election, they had no problem sacrificing three Navy SEALS and an ambassador and making a political prisoner of a very unlucky youtube publisher in order to keep it quiet.  And the Obamedia happily cooperated, which is why Rice was spewing bovine scatology to David Gregory this morning.

She admitted to Gregory on Sunday that not all of the information she shared in 2012 turned out to be 100% correct.

"But the notion that somehow I or anybody else in the administration misled the American people is patently false," she said. "And I think that's been amply demonstrated."

It has not been any such thing.  But I don't think we can say that Rice and her big-eared boss know it.  Perhaps they did know it at one time and have long since programmed themselves to believe the lie.  Or maybe they're just so contemptuous of their enemies (us) and the larger American public that the only thing about which they are ever transparent is that abject contempt.  Either way, the totalitarian memory hole is alive and well and impenetrable.

My guess is Rice was sent on Press the Meat to send a message to the Tea Party and allied congressional Republicans: "The story of Benghazi has been written, and it is what we say it is.  You'll never get the lowliest underling from my Regime before any of your pathetic committees, and nobody will ever hear your risible version of the events of September 11, 2012 outside your Nazi wingnut echo chamber.  So you'd all be well-advised to get toeing the party line, or the socialist mental hospitals set up by the ACA will start receiving patients considerably ahead of schedule."

Such cosmic arrogance can only result in a redoubling of GOP investigatory efforts, and absolutely should.  But this is a naked indication of how hopelessly difficult meting out justice to the perps in the Benghazi attack is going to be.

Case in point:

Though Obama vowed during the 2012 re-election campaign to bring the perpetrators to justice, Gregory noted that no one has yet arrested.

Rice said that promise still stands.

"We will get the perpetrators. We will stay on it till it gets done," she said.

See what I mean?

And, BTW, here's an interesting postscript:

Chris Wallace, host of "Fox News Sunday," noted that his program had asked the administration for its views about the violent protests in Ukraine, but that the White House "decided to put national security adviser Susan Rice on only one show today," as opposed to all five in 2012.

"Of course, Fox has led the way in questioning how the administration handled Benghazi. Perhaps Susan Rice didn't want to answer the tough questions we would have asked," Wallace said.

Guess they don't have their bleep together on this one yet.