https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/18/is-rice-cooked/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 00:28:42 -0400<![CDATA[Rice should have been wary of a White House staff with a tendency to gild the lily, with her pal Valerie Jarrett and other staffers zealous about casting the president in a more flattering light, like national security officials filigreeing the story of the raid on Osama to say Bin Laden fought back. Did administration officials foolishly assume that if affiliates of Al Qaeda were to blame, it would dilute the credit the president got for decimating Al Qaeda? Were aides overeager to keep Mitt Romney, who had stumbled after the Benghazi attack by accusing the president of appeasing Islamic extremists, on the defensive?]]>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:50:41 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/18/is-rice-cooked-n97600