Rice remains under fire for Benghazi comments

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The White House has condemned Republicans’ “obsession” over comments made by UN Ambassador Susan Rice following the September 11 attack on the US embassy in Libya. Spokesperson Jay Carney was speaking after Rice’s reportedly “discordant” meeting on Tuesday with senior GOP figures, in an ongoing row, which may hurt her chances of becoming the next US secretary of state. “There are no unanswered questions about Ambassador Rice’s appearances on Sunday shows,” Carney said. Rice had cited since-discredited CIA assessments on US television days after the Benghazi attack, which killed four US diplomats, including the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. She had said that the attack was initially thought to be a result of “a spontaneous reaction” to an offensive anti-Islam film made in the US, but that organised and armed “extremist elements” hijacked protests outside the embassy, swiftly escalating the violence at the scene. Senior Republicans have since claimed that Rice was misleading Americans into believing that US citizens had been at fault, through the making of the offensive movie, instead of the reportedly al Qaeda-linked group that carried out a pre-meditated offensive. In a statement issued after the meeting on Tuesday, Rice said for the first time that the talking points she used for the TV appearance “were incorrect in a key respect: there was no protest or demonstration in Benghazi”. GOP senators have been threatening to hold up Senate confirmation of Rice, should she be named as successor to Hillary Clinton, who is expected to soon retire from her position as US senior diplomat.

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