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“If we use the word ‘genocide’ and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?” — Susan Rice, on the National Security Council, regarding Rwanda, April 1994. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
Two: After leaving the Clinton administration, Rice became managing director at Intellibridge, a strategic-analysis firm in Washington, D.C. One of her clients was Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
During Clinton’s trip to Africa in 1998, after Jesse Jackson offered what The NY Times called "an unusually Afrocentric view of American history,” Rice responded, “As an African-American, I would like to say that I think slavery is largely irrelevant to what we are about here.”
In 1998, Rice became one of the Clinton administration’s preeminent defenders of the airstrike against the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan. Years later, US officials concluded the plant had no nerve gas or ties to OBL. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
In 2003, Rice told the New York Times that former ambassador Joseph Wilson — a registered Democrat who was publicly supporting John Kerry’s presidential bid “played it down the middle of the road politically.” https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
In 2006, at an event at the Brookings Institution, Rice argued that the Bush administration had been too reluctant to use military force against the Sudanese government, calling for airstrikes and a naval blockade. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
On February 2008, working for the Obama campaign, Rice insisted “there had been no contact” between Obama adviser Austan Goolsbee and representatives of the Canadian government. There in fact had been a meeting. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
On May 12, 2008, she told the New York Times that Obama had not pledged to meet unconditionally with Iran or any other “rogue” state, despite the candidate pledging to do that, with the whole world watching, at the YouTube debate. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
On July 1, 2008, Rice insisted that Obama’s pledge to get all combat troops out of Iraq within 16 months was not a deadline. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
After Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, Rice declared that the “aggressive,” “belligerent” actor in the situation was… John McCain. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
In 2012, financial disclosure reports revealed that about a third of Rice’s personal net worth was tied up in oil producers, pipeline operators, and related energy industries. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
In 2013, Rice sent a letter to Speaker Boehner requesting a withdrawal of the Authorization for the Use of Military Force passed in 2002. She did not consult with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel or anyone else at the Pentagon before making the request. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
Boehner ignored Rice's letter, and by September 2014, the Obama administration’s position was that its military actions against ISIS were legally authorized by the 2002 AUMF… the same authorization that Rice had argued should be repealed a year earlier. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
In a December 2013 interview with 60 Minutes, Rice declared, “The fact that we have not had a successful attack on our homeland since 9/11 should not be diminished.” The Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured 264 others, had occurred eight months earlier.
In June 2014, defending the Obama administration’s deal to secure the release of former Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl, Rice contended Bergdahl served the United States with “honor and distinction.” https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
Bergdahl was court-martialed for deserting his post, pleaded guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. https://bit.ly/2PdY2vS
