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McCain, Graham defend Obama nominee linked to Benghazi
« on: May 24, 2013, 08:25:23 pm »
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/terrorism/301895-mccain-graham-rush-to-defend-obama-nominee-linked-to-benghazi


McCain, Graham defend Obama nominee linked to Benghazi
By Julian Pecquet - 05/24/13 02:34 PM ET

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Friday offered a preemptive defense of President Obama's nominee to head European affairs at the State Department amid concerns about her role in the Benghazi talking points.

Obama nominated former State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland for the post on Thursday, just as news broke that House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) had asked that she be deposed by his committee. In a joint statement praising Nuland, the two longtime critics of the administration's handling of Benghazi highlighted Nuland's experience serving as principal deputy foreign policy adviser to then-Vice President Cheney and U.S. ambassador to NATO under President George W. Bush.

“Ambassador Victoria Nuland has a long and distinguished record of service to our nation in both Republican and Democrat Administrations,” they wrote. “She is knowledgeable and well-versed on the major foreign policy issues as well as respected by foreign policy experts in both parties. We look forward to her upcoming confirmation hearings in the United States Senate.”

The statement comes as Nuland's role in crafting the talking points that cost U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice a shot at becoming secretary of State has only recently come to light. Other vocal critics of the administration's response to last year's terrorist attack – notably Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.) – may yet decide to block her long-expected nomination.

According to internal documents released by the White House last week, Nuland raised concerns about blaming the attack on al Qaeda linked militants, saying she had “serious concerns” about lawmakers “making assertions to the media that we ourselves are not making because we don’t want to prejudice the investigation.”

She also urged the talking points' drafters to remove references to warnings of past attacks on the mission, saying those references could be used by lawmakers to attack the State Department.

“The penultimate point,” she wrote, “could be abused by Members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings so why do we want to feed that either? Concerned…"


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Re: McCain, Graham defend Obama nominee linked to Benghazi
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2013, 08:33:36 pm »
Hard to understand what has happened to some of the people associated with this administration.

IG George once had a stellar reputation for honor and integrity.

Nuland worked for VP Cheney.

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Re: McCain, Graham defend Obama nominee linked to Benghazi
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2013, 11:08:48 pm »
Hard to understand what has happened to some of the people associated with this administration.

IG George once had a stellar reputation for honor and integrity.

Nuland worked for VP Cheney.

 :pondering:

IG George also dated Michelle Obama after College and Nuland worked for Clinton before the Bush WH.  Remember Bush, unlike his predecessors, did not clean house at State or Justice when he came into office.
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Re: McCain, Graham defend Obama nominee linked to Benghazi
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2013, 12:34:20 am »
For McCain, at least, there may be a personal connection.

Nuland's husband:
In 1983, Robert Kagan was foreign policy advisor to New York Representative Jack Kemp. Between 1984 and 1986, he worked at the State Department Policy Planning Staff and was a speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz. From 1986 to 1988, he served in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs at the State Department.[citation needed] In 1997 he co-founded and served as a director for the now-defunct Project for the New American Century.[1][2][5]

Kagan has been described as a neoconservative foreign-policy theorist,[6][7][8] although Kagan has adamantly rejected being labeled as a "neoconservative".[9] Kagan describes his foreign-policy views as deeply rooted in American history and widely shared by Americans.[10]

Kagan spent 13 years as a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, before joining the Brookings Institution as a senior fellow in the Center on United States and Europe in September 2010.[11][12][13][14][15] He was a foreign policy advisor to John McCain, the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election.[16][17]


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Re: McCain, Graham defend Obama nominee linked to Benghazi
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2013, 01:37:38 am »
Kagan and Bill Kristol are tight too, as co-founders of the New American Century.

Is Graham McCain's poodle?  That limp-wrist nancy-boy has his nose so far up McCain's ass he can see daylight.
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Re: McCain, Graham defend Obama nominee linked to Benghazi
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2013, 04:23:58 am »
Kagan and Bill Kristol are tight too, as co-founders of the New American Century.


LOL I was going to say the same thing.
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