U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs
United Nations Ambassador Susan E. Rice “doesn’t do her homework,” said Colorado Springs’ Rep. Doug Lamborn, during an interview on Fox News Sunday.
Lamborn, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, tore into the prospective secretary of state, and said she shouldn’t be considered for the post because she’s incompetent and “is not up to the job.”
Rice has been near the center of a controversy over the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, and has been criticized by conservatives who say she wasn’t being forthright with the American public. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Rice said repeatedly that the deaths were due to an unexpected riot.
Lamborn said Rice and others officials knew almost right away that the attack, which claimed the lives of four Americans, was set up by a terrorist organization. But they delayed saying so for improper reasons, Lamborn said.
“Susan Rice was telling us things — and I don’t think it was necessarily her fault — she was telling us things that were false,” Lamborn told Fox News anchor Shannon Bream. “Someone gave her bad information, and we need to get to the bottom of who did that and why they did that.”
Lamborn, along with fellow Colorado GOP Rep. Cory Gardner, also signed a letter with 93 other House Republicans opposing Rice as secretary of state.
General David Petraeus, the former head of the CIA, testified Friday before lawmakers that the intelligence community knew rather quickly that the attack had been orchestrated by Al Qaeda affiliates. Petraeus reportedly told members of Congress that the government didn’t release their knowledge of the terrorist connection sooner “to avoid tipping them off,” according to The Washington Post.
“He (Petraeus) showed us that he knew it was a terrorist attack from basically day one. And Susan Rice should have known that,” said Lamborn.
The spotlight on Rice has increased since she has been mentioned as a possible replacement for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“She should not only not ever become secretary of state, I think she should resign… from her current position, as U.N. ambassador. She is not up to the job if she can’t do more homework, if she can’t be more discerning, if she can’t tell what the intelligence community is saying,” Lamborn said. “She should know better.”
Rice intimated at first that the attack was the result of anger over an infamous anti-Islam YouTube video made in America, and said on five talk shows that the incident was an unplanned riot. The president’s administration did not say it was a terrorist attack until Sept. 20.
Rice had been given talking points to be used publicly, but Petraeus said he hadn’t signed off on those, according to CNN. It’s not yet clear who did, and that’s a question lawmakers are still pursuing.
“Lamborn said Rice and others officials knew almost right away that the attack, which claimed the lives of four Americans, was set up by a terrorist organization.”
Key phrase being “almost right away”, not “right away” but “almost” right away.
Lamborn continues to be the last to introduce old conversations that have already taken place days ago within the more intelligent circles in our Capital, he only regurgitates it to fan the flames of hysteria much like Limbaugh, Beck, Malkin and Coulter do.
He, along with those other comedians, have become irrelevant in their job, which cater only to the extreme right wingers. And those thankfully are becoming less and less.
Lamborn, whatever he was back in 2003-2005, never raised a peep about failure to find WMD’s, the cost of military lives to support the foreign adventures of Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and their clerk, GW. Lamborn is a disgrace.
Lamborn the little Koch ho only believes what his oligarch masters and Grover Norquist tell to believe.
He’s an ambulatory cow patty and a disgrace to Colorado.
If it wasn’t two weeks before a critical election and the Obama folks hadn’t been lying so much about Romney, and the mainstream press wasn’t totally in the tank for Obama, and Obama wasn’t desperate to maintain his fiction the Taliban being “so over” thanks to his famous “decision” to go after Bin Laden, Lamborn would not have a case. The facts argue otherwise.
mikey……..the facts argue other wise??????
Really?
What color is the sky on that planet you and Fauxnews share?
Dougie has THE job, I’m not sure the brothers need another Koch ho.
what a bunch of scuzbags these republicans are these days. lamebrain is the worst of them all… and that is saying something. to discredit someone for purely political reasons is discusting. this village should be so proud this buffoon is representing us and making us look like fools.
Can you spell WMD, can you count to 4000. Number of dead due to GOP vote for war for nothing???
La born is an idiot
Remember when Lamborn was vocal about holding Powell’s feet to the fire for his address to the UN on Iraqi WMDs? Yeah, me neither. Transparent, shameful, partisan politics. Really a shame some didn’t give Dave Anderson a chance. No, Lamborn gets the honor of embarrassing his constituency for another term. Yay us.
Ah Doug. you are full of sound and fury..signifying nothing.
And Lamborn ever tells the truth about anything? When will the people of Colorado Springs ever lose patience with this clown and elect a real representative?
Oh, that would be never, as long as he keeps the flow of wasteful defense contracts flowing, and only cuts federal spending for others, not the local recipients of Social Security, Medicare, Tricare and federal pensions, all of which we know are privately funded for right wingers…..cause they would never take federal money
As American intelligence agents pursue the perpetrators of the Benghazi tragedy, Lamborn insists that the intelligence that would lead to their capture be betrayed.
Shut your pie-hole Lamborn, and let the guys who found Bin Laden do their job.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/15942334-418/tunisian-arrested-in-benghazi-consulate-attack.html
And as usual the left wing loons try to cover for Obama’s butt bandage Rice. Obama sat on his worthless ass while people died because he did not know how to react, would not take responsibility, and is incapable of critical decision making. However, as long as Obama passes out food stamps and welfare checks he will receive the votes of the fools who cannot care for themselves. Typical Chicago politics, try to make a jackass look like a race horse.