Today, we learned from former CIA Director, David Petraeus, that the CIA's report regarding Benghazi was changed to omit any reference of Al Qaeda before being distributed. The right's theory behind the change is that the White House did not want to disturb President Obama's proffered view that he had solved problems in the Middle East. After all, disturbing such a view could have hurt him in the 2012 election.
Who was the person that first started the falsity that the attack in Benghazi was the result of a YouTube video as opposed to an Al Qaeda attack? Susan Rice, ambassador to the United Nations. But why would she alter the truth to maintain a narrative favorable to her party's re-election? That's just unthinkable, right?
Regarding the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Susan Rice, then on Clinton's National Security Council, said: "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November election?"
In 2001, she said: "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required."
In 2012, after the Benghazi attack, she said it was the result of a YouTube video, and the White House did nothing.
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