{"id":16412,"date":"2012-11-16T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=16412"},"modified":"2012-11-18T09:38:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T17:38:05","slug":"as-long-as-we%e2%80%99re-holding-hearings-what%e2%80%99s-the-statute-of-limitations-on-this-iraq-wmd-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=16412","title":{"rendered":"As long as we\u2019re holding hearings, what\u2019s the statute of limitations on this Iraq WMD crap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16413\" title=\"tumblr_mdl548fUTI1qeuluv\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdl548fUTI1qeuluv.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/marmel.com\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Marmel.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(VIA BUZZFEED) WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 Before Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham went after Susan Rice for claiming that the attack in Benghazi was the result of an anti-Islamic video, the pair defended then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from charges that she was a \u201cliar\u201d over her testimony claiming there were WMDs in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am dead set on making sure we don\u2019t promote anybody who was a player in the Benghazi debacle,\u201d Graham said on Wednesday in reference to Rice\u2019s appearances on the five Sunday shows in which she blamed the Benghazi attack on a anti-Islamic video.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration has said Rice was relying on CIA assessments pointing to the video, one of which has leaked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is so disconnected from reality that I don\u2019t trust her,\u201d the South Carolina Republican added.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2005, Graham was fiercely protective of Rice as she faced confirmation to take over the State Department, chaffing at terms used by Democratic lawmakers to describe her testimony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe words like \u2018misleading\u2019 and \u2018disingenuous,\u2019 I think, were very unfair,\u201d Graham said on\u00a0<em>Fox News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if then-Sen. Mark Dayton\u2019s use of the word \u201cliar\u201d was justified, Graham pounced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, that\u2019s even more unfair. Because it was all in terms of weapons of mass destruction and misleading us about the war and what was in Iraq. Well, every intelligence agency in the world was misled. And to connect those two to say that she\u2019s a liar is very unfair, over the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the vote, McCain noted from the Senate floor that the chamber had enough votes to confirm Rice to the job, questioning why Democrats wanted to debate her nomination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSo I wonder why we are starting this new Congress with a protracted debate about a foregone conclusion,\u201d he said, adding that Rice is qualified for the job. \u201cI can only conclude that we are doing this for no other reason than because of lingering bitterness over the outcome of the election.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Marmel.com (VIA BUZZFEED) WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 Before Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham went after Susan Rice for claiming that the attack in Benghazi was the result of an anti-Islamic video, the pair defended then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from charges that she was a \u201cliar\u201d over her testimony claiming there were WMDs in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-soapbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16418,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16412\/revisions\/16418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}