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2016 Postmortem

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TomCADem

(17,391 posts)
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 12:15 AM Jan 2013

When National Security Advisor Condi Rice's Flub Caused The Death... [View all]

...of thousands of Americans on 9/11 despite access to intelligence regarding the planned attack as referenced by Richard Clarke, John McCain supported her for Secretary of State:

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/11/14/1190731/john-mccain-supported-condi-rice-after-massive-intelligence-failure/?mobile=nc

But when Hillary Clinton played a crucial role in a Libya policy that lead to the downfall of Quaddafi with minimal losses to American life without the need for a massive U.S. invasion, Republicans say that they would have fired her.

Republican intelligence. You got to love it.

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