November 15th, 2012

Rep. Heck: Condoleeza and Susan Rice both had wrong information

Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV) tells CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that both former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Ambassador Susan Rice had wrong information when handling the claim of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the events leading up to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, respectively.

O’Brien asks, “You’ve lost me completely. Let’s back up again. I’m sorry. Forgive me. But you’ve lost me. So in both cases, you have someone who says, we had intelligence, the intelligence was wrong, what I said was wrong because the intelligence was wrong. How is this not analogous to Ambassador Susan Rice and Condoleeza Rice?”

Rep. Heck says, “Because nobody came out and said Condoleeza Rice had nothing to do with the situation. Here’s the difference. Is that they put forward really a sacrificial lamb in Ambassador Rice. Somebody who’d go out, make statements and then they could claim deniability after the information was proven to be wrong.”

Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien airs weekday mornings from 7-9am ET on CNN.