Boo, Rice's "mission" that day was not to tell us that extremists attacked the consulate...her mission (set out explicitly by Ben Rhodes in the email that was reclassified to hide it from the public and Congress) was to put forth a narrative that what took place in Benghazi was the result of a protest over a YouTube video and not a failure of policy by the Obama Administration.
The transcripts are included in this thread and in everyone of them Ambassador Rice always claimed it was an extremist element that carried out the attacks.
And in every one of them she prefaced that claim by claiming the attack was the result of a protest over the YouTube video that extremist elements took advantage of.
You can't re-write what she said to fit your narrative.
"But putting together the best information that we have available to us today our current assessment is that what happened in Benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in Cairo, almost a copycat of-- of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video."
"What we think then transpired in Benghazi is that opportunistic extremist elements came to the consulate as this [the alleged copycat protest] was unfolding. They came with heavy weapons which unfortunately are readily available in post revolutionary Libya. And it escalated into a much more violent episode. Obviously, that’s-- that’s our best judgment now. We’ll await the results of the investigation.
September 16 Benjamin Netanyahu Susan Rice Keith Ellison Peter King Bob Woodward Jeffrey Goldberg Andrea Mitchell - Meet the Press - Transcripts NBC News
Ah Boo...what you posted backs up my contention completely. What have I re-written to fit my narrative?
Ambassador Rice never claimed "the attack was the result of a protest". Her speculation that day was that the attacks came from "extremist elements"
"BOB SCHIEFFER: And joining us now, Susan Rice, the U.N. ambassador, our U.N. ambassador. Madam Ambassador, he says this is something that has been in the planning stages for months. I understand you have been saying that you think it was spontaneous? Are we not on the same page here?
SUSAN RICE (Ambassador to the United Nations): Bob, let me tell you what we understand to be the assessment at present. First of all, very importantly, as you discussed with the President, there is an investigation that the United States government will launch led by the FBI, that has begun and--
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): But they are not there.
SUSAN RICE: They are not on the ground yet, but they have already begun looking at all sorts of evidence of-- of various sorts already available to them and to us. And they will get on the ground and continue the investigation. So we'll want to see the results of that investigation to draw any definitive conclusions. But based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in Cairo where, of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy--
BOB SCHIEFFER: Mm-Hm.
SUSAN RICE: --sparked by this hateful video. But soon after that spontaneous protest began outside of our consulate in Benghazi, we believe that it looks like extremist elements, individuals, joined in that-- in that effort with heavy weapons of the sort that are, unfortunately, readily now available in Libya post-revolution. And that it spun from there into something much, much more violent.
BOB SCHIEFFER: But you do not agree with him that this was something that had been plotted out several months ago?
SUSAN RICE: We do not-- we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Do you agree or disagree with him that al Qaeda had some part in this?
SUSAN RICE: Well, we'll have to find out that out. I mean I think it's clear that there were extremist elements that joined in and escalated the violence. Whether they were al Qaeda affiliates, whether they were Libyan-based extremists or al Qaeda itself I think is one of the things we'll have to determine."
That was Susan Rice's interview on "Face the Nation", Boo...do you STILL want to claim she never said the attacks followed a protest? You have to remember that when Rice was sent out to do those Sunday morning talk shows by Ben Rhodes that the White House had already been told by numerous sources that there was no protest in Benghazi prior to the attack and that the attack that did take place was planned and carried out by an Al Queda affiliated terror group.
