John McCain, Bengahzi is a hill worth dying for ..... "Rice admitted she was wrong"

[Botany]

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/11/27/mccain_rice_admitted_she_was_wrong_on_benghazi

McCain: Rice admitted she was wrong on Bengahzi

U.N. ambassador Susan Rice told senators she was wrong when she attributed the Benghazi attack to a spontaneous protest that was a reaction to an anti-Islam video on television on Sept. 16, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told The Cable.

Rice, however, immediately contradicted McCain's readout of the meeting and said that the intelligence community was wrong on one detail of the day's events: the notion that there was a protest outside the U.S. mission in Benghazi.

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Rice met with McCain, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) in the Capitol this morning along with acting CIA Director Mike Morrell. McCain, in a short interview following the meeting, said that he was troubled by several of her answers. He also said that Rice clearly stated she was wrong when she made her original statements on the attack, and McCain called on Rice to repeat that admission publicly.

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McCain said he was unhappy with several of Rice's answers on how the State Department handled the issue before, during, and after the attack.

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Oh for the love of Dog John ...... Ms. Rice gave the exact same talking points that she was given by the CIA and
the CIA did not give all the information to her and congress because they had agents, assets, and programs they
did not want to expose and she was working at the UN at the time of the attack too. Ever since Rep. Issa blabbed
about our some of our SECRET ACTIONS in Libya the CIA has had damn good reason not to give out too much
information.

I am now convinced that the repugs want to try to impeach or hamstring Obama over Bengahzi.

[JoePhilly]

1. Iraq war WMD cheerleader lectures nation on National Security ... REALLY?

McCain repeated bad info over and over.

He needs to STFU.

[struggle4progress]

2. again with this?

[psychmommy]

3. brings back fond memories of when we kicked his behind.

[Angry Dragon]

4. mccain = bitter senile old man

[IADEMO2004]

5. Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte climbed too far up the stupid tree

and they can't find a safe way down.

I recommend plummet.

[moondust]

6. Saving face.

They're not the type to eat crow and apologize after investing months in this non-story. No, these very serious "tough guys" are likely to stick together and keep lying and flailing.

[spanone]

7. mccain is out of his fucking mind.

[riderinthestorm]

8. Agreed. They are setting up for Obama impeachment proceedings.

This is so utterly irrational otherwise.

They know that impeachment won't be successful in the Senate but they also know that, like Clinton, they can utterly destroy Obama's second term agenda with impeachment proceedings. It would stop any forward momentum in Congress. It also tarnishes the Dem candidate in 2016 AND would take one of our most effective campaigners, Obama, off the campaign trail for the 2016 Dem candidate.

[Panasonic]

11. The trial for the impeachment will *NEVER* happen

as long as Reid is in the Majority Leader's seat.

McConnell can go whine some more, but he's pretty much powerless after Jan 6th - filibuster reform will happen, and it won't be the way Turtle likes it.

[riderinthestorm]

14. Agreed. But the proceedings start in the House, enough to tie Obama up for a LONG time nt

[Ikonoklast]

15. Any impeachment nonsense will die in committe, with no hearing scheduled.

This is why keeping the Senate was of vital importance, otherwise the scenario of Republicans shitting all over the second Obama administration would have been a reality.

[libdem4life]

9. Like the graphic. But I think they just got Obama back for his re-election.

What were they thinking to send her out to the wolves? This is precedent setting and potent fodder for 2014 and 2016.

[OldDem2012]

13. Oh, bull. This is yet another losing topic for the extreme right-wing....

....outside of the MSM, they are the only people paying attention to this nonsense.

[libdem4life]

16. I like your thought better. DUers are a bit jaded on some things, I agree.

[julian09]

10. She admitted long ago that the information she was given, then related, on the Sunday morning shows

was wrong. Is that all the old fool got out of their meeting today with ambassador Rice? Get over it McCain, you lost four years ago because you were a loser then and still hold that title. Your stupidity is showing.

[brush]

12. Such an old fool

McCain is at it again. Keeping his name in a few more news cycles, and thereby extending his self-perceived relevance, is all he's interested in. The, "she admitted that she was wrong" claim is just so much hogwash but it will get him some headlines. She was only "wrong" in that the report she was given was "wrong" in that it left out information for national security reasons. It also stated that there was a protest at the consulate on the day of the attack, not unlike all the dozens of other protests going on through out the region at the time, not such an outrageous conclusion to draw. I don't think we have to worry about this going on for too much longer because the CIA is responsible for the "wrong" info but McGrumpy is going to milk it for as long as he can.

[Initech]

17. Boy they're really banging those impeachment drums aren't they?