(IBD) OMG! Susan Rice As Secretary Of State And John "Swift Boat" Kerry At Defense?

[Daniel John Sobieski]

Leadership: Two of the most important national security  positions may be soon held by a diplomat who helped perpetrate a Benghazi-gate  lie and a senator who has voted against every major defense system in the last  25 years.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Australia on Tuesday  before a summit about deepening defense links between Australia and the U.S. as  our dwindling forces pivot to the Pacific Rim. Of course, Wednesday hearings on  Benghazi have nothing to do with her getting as far from Washington, D.C., as  possible.

She'll be conveniently unavailable to testify on the terrorist attack on our  consulate in Benghazi and has been deafeningly silent on why and how real-time  emails and video plus a claim of responsibility by the al-Qaida-linked group  Ansar al-Sharia led her to promote the big lie that it was all caused by an  obscure Internet video.

Clinton will soon be our former secretary of state, having successfully  kicked the Benghazi can far enough down the political road to get her boss,  President Obama, re-elected and proving to be the loyal foot soldier as she  prepares her own presidential run in 2016.

Her replacement is said to be U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who went on five  Sunday news shows on Sept. 16 to claim the Benghazi attack was a spontaneous  action by a mob inflamed by the video "Innocence of Muslims."

Rice would repeat the lie agreed upon five times, telling NBC News, for  example, that "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."

In 2005, Rice co-authored an academic article postulating that terrorism was  "a threat borne of both oppression and deprivation." In 1996, while serving as  assistant secretary of state for African affairs under former Secretary of State  Madeleine Albright, Rice helped persuade President Clinton to rebuff Sudan's  offer to turn Osama bin Laden, who was then living there, over to U.S.  authorities.

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