{"id":1526,"date":"2012-10-16T07:38:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T11:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2012-10-16T07:38:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T11:38:55","slug":"susan-rice-i-relied-on-talking-points-from-intelligence-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/10\/16\/susan-rice-i-relied-on-talking-points-from-intelligence-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Rice: I Relied on Talking Points From Intelligence Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Obama administration comes under increasing scrutiny for its  handling of the terrorist attack in Libya, Ambassador Susan Rice is  defending her actions, saying that political considerations did not  factor into her early statements on the attack.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-ambassador-susan-rice\/2012\/10\/15\/c5a9fe04-16d9-11e2-8792-cf5305eddf60_print.html\">an interview with <em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a> published on Tuesday, Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said, according to <em>The Post<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s characterization, that \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153she relied on daily updates from intelligence agencies in the days before her television appearances and on a set of talking points prepared for senior members of the administration by intelligence officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether there was an attempt to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pick and choose\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0among explanations she replied, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Absolutely not,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d adding that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was purely a function of what was provided to us\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and, as <em>The Post<\/em> writes, &#8220;had been given to Congress the day before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/nationalsecurity\/susan-rice-i-relied-on-talking-points-from-intelligence-officials-20121016\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/nationalsecurity\/susan-rice-i-relied-on-talking-points-from-intelligence-officials-20121016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Obama administration comes under increasing scrutiny for its handling of the terrorist attack in Libya, Ambassador Susan Rice is defending her actions, saying that political considerations did not factor into her early statements on the attack. In an interview with The Washington Post published on Tuesday, Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/10\/16\/susan-rice-i-relied-on-talking-points-from-intelligence-officials\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Susan Rice: I Relied on Talking Points From Intelligence Officials&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,6,293],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt","tag-jonathan-miller"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-oC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}