Rice pushes back against GOP attacks on her Benghazi account
America's ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, pushed back hard against Republican attacks on her initial description of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in a letter made public Friday.
http://thehill.com/images/stories/blogs/globalaffairs/riceletter.pdf
In her response to three Republican senators' demand for an explanation, Rice was non-apologetic and told them that they had misquoted her and taken her statements out of context.
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“In answering, I relied solely and squarely on the information the intelligence community provided to me and other senior U.S. officials, including through the daily intelligence briefings that present the latest reporting and analysis to policymakers,” Rice wrote to Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
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“In the immediate aftermath,” the agency said, “there was information that led us to assess that the attack began spontaneously following protests earlier that day at our embassy in Cairo. We provided that initial assessment to Executive Branch officials and members of Congress, who used that information to discuss the attack publicly.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/terrorism/260593-rice-pushes-back-against-republican-attacks-on-benghazi-account
