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Ellison's Must Read of the Day

Ellison Barber
February 24, 2014

My must read of the day is "Sunday Show Round Up: Ukraine and Benghazi," in the Washington Free Beacon:

In addition to discussing Ukraine, Rice was asked about her Sunday show appearances in 2012 that became infamous in the debate over Benghazi and arguably cost her the position of Secretary of State.

Rice said she had no regrets when it comes to those appearances.

"What I said to you that morning and what I did every day since was to share the best information that we had at the time," she told NBC’s David Gregory. "The information I provided, which I explained to you, was what we had at the moment. It could change. I commented that this was based on what we knew on that morning, was provided to me and my colleagues and indeed to Congress by the intelligence community and that’s been well validated in many different ways since. That information turned out in some respects not to be 100 percent correct, but the notion that somehow I or anybody else in the administration misled the American people is patently false, and I think that that’s been amply demonstrated."

This was Susan Rice's first appearance since her infamous Benghazi interviews in 2012. Except this time, she went only on "Meet the Press," on the most pro-Obama network.

It's been consistently shown that, at the very least, what happened in Benghazi was not because of a video. Yet the left is content to ignore this in order to paint the right as crazy people.

We should all be irate about the video lie.

Suppose we give the administration the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe they thought it was a video initially. Even if that were true, within days they knew it wasn't the case.

Yet President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and others maintained that line of argument long after knowing it was inaccurate.

Have we become so politicized that one half of the population refuses to hold officials accountable for a lie because that might mean conservatives have a point?