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Jon Stewart Grills Susan Rice on Obama Admin’s Alleged Mismanagement of Benghazi Terror Attack

Feb. 15, 2013 8:49am
Jon Stewart Grills Susan Rice About Benghazi, Libya Attack on The Daily Show

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Questions continue to swirl surrounding the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead. Among the most confounding factors were inaccurate comments made by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice in the wake of the assault. The embattled administration official appeared last night on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” to discuss the government’s handling of the crisis.

During the exchange, the host challenged Rice on some of the confusing and contradictory information that emerged in the wake of the terror attack. The ambassador also issued some tough words for those who still believe the Obama administration is hiding key information.

Stewart wasted no time launching into his questioning. Almost as soon as Rice sat down, he asked the ambassador why she was selected to speak out on Sunday morning shows and pondered why someone else more appropriate (i.e. Hillary Clinton or another official) wasn’t chosen. The ambassador gave this long-winded answer:

“I’ve spent many-a-Sunday doing the Sunday shows. In this case, Secretary Clinton, who had been asked originally to do it, felt that she didn’t want to, couldn’t do it that week, having been through quite an intense week with the loss of our colleagues in Benghazi, the violence against our embassies all over the Arab and Muslim world and then — also that Friday having to join President Obama in greeting the families of our fallen colleagues and bringing their bodies back.”

As far as the intelligence she relied upon goes, Rice overwhelmingly defended it, but did note that there was at least one bit of information that ended up being incorrect. Claims that a protest had resulted from an anti-Islam film in Benghazi were false. While this story was incorrect, Rice doubled-down to defend the rest of the intelligence that was gathered, claiming that it has held up over time.

“I shared the best information that our intelligence community had at the time,” she said, repeating a line that has frequently been issued to address criticism over the past few months. “They provided the talking points that I used. And they were wrong in one respect, we learned subsequently. And that is that there wasn’t, in fact, a protest.”

Watch part one of the interview, below:

 

As the interview progressed, Rice seemed somewhat impatient with those who continue to question the administration’s handling of the event. She told Stewart that she believes ”there have been ample opportunities for them to understand what’s going on.”

Stewart responded by lightly grilling Rice on a number of issues, particularly the ever-confusing comments that came from a variety of administration officials about where the talking points originated. After recapping the confusion, Stewart told Rice, “It does look like there’s a great deal of confusion there.” Then, the ambassador launched into her views on the “bigger tragedy” in this scenario:

“There’s always confusion when you have a tragedy of that sort and Americans are killed. The bigger tragedy is we’ve spent all of these months trying to figure out the origin of some talking points which were cleared at the highest levels of the intelligence community and, in my opinion, not enough time doing the service we owe to our fallen colleagues…”

While Stewart also wondered if disorganized bureaucracy played a role in the mismanagement of the situation, Rice took a different view, saying that, ”folks were doing their very best with what they had and it wasn’t good enough in these circumstances.”

And when Stewart asked her to respond critics who are demanding more answers and contending that the administration is hiding something, Rice issued some tough words.

“They’re dead wrong,” she said. “And they are, in fact, doing a disservice to those we lost.”

Watch these comments, below:

 

In part three, the two shifted gears to discuss North Korea:

 

 

What do you think about Rice’s comments about Benghazi? Let us know in the comments section, below.

(H/T: Mediaite)

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  • Tom70
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:43pm

    Well we have come full circle the Comedic Politicians are being interviewed by a comedian. Who is the laugh on?

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  • brliso
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:43pm

    Rice is in WAY over her head. She is dispsable and a toxic asset and everyone in Washington knows it. Thats why the media doesn’t talk to her – becasue she has nothing to say that is of any worth. Notice that as the investigations went forward every other person involved went away from the idea of a film covwerign whiole she stayed the course.

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  • paulsavage1
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:20pm

    Susan, why did it take so long to figure out who changed the talking point and we still don’t know….might lead to suspicion on anyone’s part…

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  • jsdel
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:06pm

    If the Republicans were smart, they would play this interview every day for the next four years. Hillary Clinton, who wants to be the next POTUS, was too tired and too emotional to handle the Sunday talk shows. Thank you for that gift and my apologies to all the feminists out there who just got set back 50 years by promoting the stereotype that women can’t handle positions of power. Do we want Hilary in the WH as commander in chief dealing with wars and other “emotional” events? She will curl up in a ball in the corner sucking her thumb! Now we know what Hillary will do when she gets that 3 am phone call…..jump in a hot bathtub with a box of chocolates and send out her VP.
    Don’t worry too much, femmis, Sarah Palin has your back as we know she could handle the job and the stress!

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  • January24
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:49pm

    Everybody with one working brain cell knows that the scene at the White House went down like this:

    “S hit! The election is around the corner and we’ve been campaigning on the story that we’ve got Al Queda on the run. Now, radical Muslims have killed our ambassador! We need a cover story, and we need one FAST. Okay; who’s got an idea?

    “Well, let’s see. If there’s anything out there that we could say provoked the attack, that would be good. You know; sort of like that faked “killing” of the Palestinian kid that French TV broadcast. You know; the one where it turned out the kid wasn’t really dead?

    “Yeah; that’s good. Okay; let’s look at Youtube to see if there’s anything on there that’s anti-Islam. Hey; look at this! This is a really ugly video talking about Islam. THERE’S OUR STORY LINE. THE MUSLIM WORLD IS FURIOUS ABOUT THIS NASTY ATTACK ON THEIR RELIGION. A GROUP OF JUST-PLAIN-MUSLIMS WENT INTO A RAGE BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T CONTAIN THEMSELVES WHEN THEY SAW THIS VIDEO ATTACK.

    “ALRIGHT! Thanks so much, Leon. That’s going to work GREAT. The American media will buy ANY story — no matter how phony-sounding. This way, we won’t have to wake up Barack. Whew; we dodged a bullet. The ambassador didn’t, but WE DID.”

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  • mary1lou
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:43pm

    Jon Stewart Grills Susan Rice -You must be kidding If this is “grilling someone” I would hate to see what they call a tea party. Lindsey Graham hit the nail on the head when he stated that Hillary got away wth murder. Hillary has to live with herself and guilt will take a toll on her as well as the other people involved in this coverup.

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  • Soulphoenix
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:53pm

    Rice is an extremely intelligent woman who is so wrapped up in her lies that she now sounds stupid. Classic.

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  • RolandofGilead
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:13pm

    Why doesn’t anyone, even congress, ask who it was who told our forces to not go help those people? We all know who it was, I just want to hear the coward admit it. I know a lot of people are upset and angry and depressed that obama got re-elected a second time but there is a much more terrifying prospect… What if the democrats take control of the house and the senate in 2014 and obama is president? MY GOD can you even imagine? Liars, cheaters and thieves,OH MY!

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  • suz
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:59pm

    uh, that ain’t a grilling.

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    suz  
  • seayahlater
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:42pm

    What? Is she serious… the talking points held up over time to be true? NOT!!!! How about the one that the video had nothing to do with the attack in Benghazi and that they were told to stand down.

    Face the truth, this administration stood by and allowed Americans be killed. How about this… What in the world were they doing there in the first place? For being so Anti-gun this administration sure likes gun running, first to Mexico and then to Syria through Turkey by way of Benghazi. No wonder they are doing everything they can to cover it up.

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  • TopAssistant
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:31pm

    If the media was smart and did their homework they would ask Rice why did she work to get UN Resolution 16/18 signed by Obama. This brings us to a more obvious question.

    Why did Obama, Clinton, Rice and Petraeus keep claiming the YouTube video was what caused the murders in Benghazi? Look up UN Resolution 16/18 and then go to YouTube and watch a briefing by Stephen Coughlin: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and its Role in Enforcing Islamic Law
    Simply put, UN Resolution 16/18 is forcing Shariah/Islamic law upon us and is cutting away at our 1st amendment by imposing Islam on us.
    Is Obama using the Muslim Brotherhood to form a global Caliphate or is the Muslim Brotherhood using Obama to for one?

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  • KEELHAULUM
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:30pm

    You feel that??? It’s raining,…..that’s rain running down your back.
    We have all just been P I S S ED on. And they walk away scott free. What a disgrace.

    I weep for my country.
    Goodnight America,….wherever you are.

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  • GuruMeditation
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:17pm

    This was not a “grilling”. BTW… where did my last post go? No cursing or offensive phrases. Shrug.

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  • yourpaled
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:06pm

    Now we all know why Obummer gave so much praise on Rice. She’s a perfect sheeple, covered up his lies by using talking points as if they were on a teleprompter. Obummer figured that between Rice’s appearances and the media’s silence on the case, Benghazi would just fade away. Why isn’t the administration as a whole before the congressional hearing to tell the truth?

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  • Margyt
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:57pm

    I think we know enough about Susan Rice to not think about her anymore.

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  • MrKnowItAll
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:47pm

    She REFUSES to Shave her Underarms. Feels it’s Discrimination against Woman. Muslim Operative.

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  • Cre8tive
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:24pm

    It’s amazing how many people get there news from The Daily Show

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    Cre8tive  
  • louie louie
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:17pm

    “…there wasn’t, in fact, a protest.”

    They knew within hours that it was a terrorist attack and not a protest, yet they deliberately lied to the American people for weeks. We still don’t have the answer as to why they chose to deceive us rather than tell us the truth. Was it to protect the President who was AWOL? Or was there something more sinister going on, like gun running, they are still covering up? So we still don’t have an answer as to why, when American lives were at risk after 5 PM, neither Obama nor Clinton wanted to answer the phone.

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  • PAUL_THE_APOSTLE
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:15pm

    Barry Obama has had a chip on his shoulder since Jan 20,2009. Every act he has done, every czar he has appointed, every executive order he has issued, is an in our face, I DARE YOU TO IMPEACH ME, attitude. IF CONGRESS had the balls to hold impeachment hearings, and the 100 gutless wonders in that great Senate body, ever awakened enough to hear the cry of the land, perhaps they would rise to the occasion and save our great UNION.

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  • Tracy F
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:49pm

    If I understand Ms. Rice correctly, Ms Clinton’s appointed duties had become too much to bare? Perhaps we are to believe she is a delicate flower caught in hailstorm? So….let’s not press her – she can’t take the undue stress? I’m sure it was difficult to deal with the tragedy that occurred because of her obvious incompetance. But yet, millions will believe that she is a person that deserves untold powers…even another bid for the White House! Ms. Rice played her bit beautifully – decieve the public, then feign innocence, and of course, she can’t be held accountable, she was only doing what she was told…which brings us back to who told whom to do what? What is this “dog-n-pony” show! The foolishness going on in our White House’s administration is on full display!

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  • alinskythis
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:31pm

    They must be mighty short on shills, to put her back on the air as the scapegoat again. Isn’t that kind of what caused this whole thing blow up in the first place?

    Note the classic Alinsky in using the SAME OLE TACTICS of projecting their own culpability as guilt on the brainwash victims, whoring out The Victims of This Tragedy, the impatience, anger and forceful statements in diametric opposition to facts or realities.

    Kind of like pressuring us to “Move forward – just forget 9/11.”

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    • alinskythis
      Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:34pm

      ….Parroting the same exact choice of words, like “folks,” and “doing their very best.”

      Bleah! Gag!!

      Why not just rename it “The Borg Party.”

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    • alinskythis
      Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:39pm

      …..Avoiding answering the question by hijacking the narrative…..

      They are all the same lies they keep ramming down our throats.

      The messengers change, but never the messages or the collective corruption. It’s a secret society of criminals all covering for themselves and hiding behind each other and their surrogates.

      Although he asked some logical questions, it’s not investigative journalism. I’d bet it’s closer to browbeating us once and for all into accepting their lies out of exhaustion.

      This is a FASCINATING collection of rare mass media articles about treachery and manipulation of the masses by mass media.

      A must-read, actually…..

      http://www.examiner.com/article/rare-media-articles-expose-how-the-mass-media-manipulate-public-opinion?cid=rss

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    • ShamanWorld
      Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:46am

      You are on point. People who “woke up” only after 9-11 are still behind the curve at realizing that Dem and Repub are both as evil and are just as phony as the Fox News vs msnbc or CNN paradigm. Its all a bulls#|t act being played out on the World stage. on one hand, we are policing the world of “corrupt, tyrannical” goats, while ours here in the US is slowly becoming a police authoritarian state itself.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:07pm

    Blacks take up for blacks. SHe is a liar but will make sure obama gets no blame.

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  • Maggie in Indiana
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:06pm

    She learned her lines well. Turning the focus to the poor dead and forgotten victims is done really well in this performance. She would be allowed to stay on the island or advance to the next round on any of the popular shows. what one would you put her on?

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  • toto
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 2:04pm

    They are dead, she is wrong. Have never witnessed such a media/government fiasco. Obama’s unwillingness to come clean from the get go, and to blame an idiotic video that no one had seen smells really, really bad. Until proven otherwise, believe this was a black op gone bad, and the video was either put together or to be found useful, by the black ops people. When the ex SEALS ruined their plans, they doubled down on the video, as the excuse for everything. The worst part is the likelihood that Brennan was the architect of it, and as is the way of the Obama administration, he is to be rewarded for his failure (however you describe failure). No question that Clinton was put into a protected space during all of this, so as not to damage 2016. This is worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-Contra, by FAR. The difference in this time is that the media is brain dead, incompetent, unprofessional, biased, AND UNPATRIOTIC, most of those in Washington are just invertebrates, and the public has been brainwashed into complacency and ignorance.

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  • drrgb
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 1:59pm

    Could save some cash by replacing the UN Ambassador with a tape recorder on a play back loop. She is a fool manipulated by the puppet master Obama. If she had any honor or common sense, she would resign.

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