Friday, November 23, 2012

Wild and unsubstantiated accusations.

The non-scandal of Susan Rice's involvement with the Benghazi attack has been unraveling in the last days.  John McCain and Lindsey Graham have been leading the charge against Rice, claiming that she must have lied to protect the Obama administration just before the election.  As it turns out, not only was there no evidence when McCain and Graham began making these accusations; there is now evidence to the contrary--the CIA gave her certain talking points she was allowed to cover, and redacted certain others (including any mention of al Qaeda).  The Washington Post editorial board just published a column calling the GOP attacks bizarre, and pointing out why they are so bizarre.  Nevertheless, the article, which reveals the stupidity of wild, unsubstantiated accusation, ends with one of its own.
The WP editorial board may be correct, but simply indicating the skin color of a certain percentage of the signatories does not make this speculation any less wild than the bizarre GOP attacks they've just described.

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