Susan Rice Warns White House Not to Put Out ‘Inaccurate If Not Deliberately False’ Information

(CNSNews.com) – Former Obama administration national security adviser Susan Rice was castigated on social media over a Washington Post op-ed accusing the Trump White House of dissembling and contorting the facts, but doubled down in a PBS interview Wednesday, saying when the White House puts out information seen to be “inaccurate if not deliberately false, it shakes the credibility and the confidence of our allies.”

The criticism greeting the op-ed almost universally pointed to the fact that, in an earlier role as President Obama’s ambassador to the U.N., Rice was sent by the White House to deliver to five Sunday television talk shows the message that the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was a “spontaneous reaction” to an online video mocking Mohammed.

Only later did the administration publicly acknowledge that it was a terrorist attack, with a likely al-Qaeda link.

The incident prompted suspicions that the administration had deliberately sought to mislead American voters – during Obama’s re-election campaign – about the nature of the attack. Reinforcing those suspicions was the subsequent revelation that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on the very night of the attack, told her daughter in an email that the deaths at the consulate were the work of “an Al Queda-like [sic] group.”

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