While I’m thankful this abhorrent woman won’t become Secretary of State I can only wonder the timing of this especially since Hillary Clinton is due to testify about Benghazi next week.
U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice withdrew her name Thursday as President Obama’s leading candidate for secretary of state, saying the administration could not afford a “lengthy, disruptive and costly” confirmation fight over statements she made about the extremist attack in Libya that killed four Americans.
Rice called Obama on Thursday morning, before sending him a letter officially withdrawing from consideration. Rice said in an interview that she had concluded early this week that what she and Obama considered “unfair and misleading” charges against her over the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, would impede the president’s second-term agenda.
“This was my decision,” Rice said. When asked if Obama had tried to dissuade her, she said that he “understood that this was the right decision, and that I made it for the right reasons.”
Yeah right….”your decision.”
The administration knew any confirmation fight would keep Benghazi in the headlines and you can’t really cover-up something that is in the headlines non-stop can you?
The reason can only be fear. Next week, Hillary Clinton is supposed to testify before Congress about Libya. There are some indications Clinton may now back out, or resort to insisting on a closed session hidden from the public. Whatever the result, President Obama clearly does not want to give Congress any more high-profile chances to ask someone under oath what happened in the hours and days after Stevens was killed. Rice was at ground zero of the real scandal: not in Benghazi, where the attack occurred; but in Washington, where the cover-up was planned and executed.
Obama blinked…
And the coverup of the murder of four Americans continue.
Meanwhile they whine that the Secretary of State position shouldn’t be politizied. Doug Ross has an example of the left’s short term memory.
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