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Paul Marks

Rice was not opposed for being "shifty" - the lady was opposed for going on five different television shows (on one day) and pretending that the long planned terrorist attack on 9/11 2012 was just a protest against a Youtube video that got out of hand.

The long planned terrorist attack had nothing to do with any Youtube film (as the Obama Administration, which had ignored repeated requests for aid and watched the attack on a live feed, knew perfectly well), the "it was a protest against a Youtube film" line was a disinformation line designed to protect Barack Obama till the Presidential election.

Why does the Economist magazine not report this? Oh, I remember, you were part of the same "mainstream" media "it was to do with a Youtube film" disinformation campaign to protect the Presidential candidate you had supported in 2008 and were supporting again in 2012.

liberty lee

"Shifty" in a pig's eye. There was nothing shifty about her blatant and obvious lies.

When Jay Carney lied about Benghazi, I thought what I suspected was a lie was plausible so I didn't comment. But by the time Susan Rice repeatedly lied about Benghazi that Sunday, the lie was no longer plausible -- too much evidence had already been reported about the events of that day.

I immediately went to my mailing lists and sent out messages asking why would she lie about it when the truth of the situation was already so clear. I didn't need the media to tell me that it was a lie.

And these were lies pure and simple. For goodness sake, there was a live feed from the event being watched by all the bureaucrats. The Administration absolutely knew what happened and intentionally misrepresented the situation.

Truth be told however, it was not the lies that bothered me most -- after all, most politicians lie when they are campaigning.

What bothered me most was that no rescue effort was made to save the two guys killed at the second compound. They had about eight hours to organize a rescue from Italy or Spain and therefore had plenty of time. I have a sinking feeling that Administration politicians sacrificed those two young men so that they would not incur a political problem for President Obama at home. They probably planned to lie at that point and blame the situation on the dumb video clip and felt that they wouldn't get caught. If so, this becomes a case of negligent homicide and I hope justice is done.

As it stands, most media are ignoring the issues and no one is being held accountable. Shame, shame on America.

Lee Nason
New Bedford, Massachusetts


Oh great! A man who lied about his military record in Viet Nam, and divorced one woman with "only" 200 million to marry another with 500 million— just what America needs for a Secretary of State— a lying gigolo!

And Hillary Clinton, just because she wasted a huge amount of taxpayer money flying to 112 countries and her only accomplishment was letting the Ambassador to Libya be brutally murdered after refusing all appeals for help and she's voted "Woman of the Year"



Wat - Graham is a fierce critic of the Administration because they have lied, and lied, and lied about Benghazi, in the most laughable ways possible, and only the complicity of 'journalists' working at, inter alia, The Economist, has prevented it becoming Obama's Watergate. If I were you, I'd ride that luck rather than ignoring the substantive issues and attacking the messenger. But then I'm not a starry-eyed Obama groupie.

Wat Tyler

Sen. Graham is ,of course, from very conservative South Carolina and must fear a Tea Party primary challenge from the Jim DeMint faction of his party so he is always looking for a way to appear on TV as a fierce critic of the administration. In the past, Sen. Graham has seemed quite reasonable at times - but not now, not these times.

Jim (from next door North Carolina)


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