WORLD_ US_ GOP Continues Criticizing Libya Response

September 30, 2012, 10:59 AM.

GOP Continues Criticizing Libya Response.

By Michael M. Phillips and Tom Barkley


Allies of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pressed their attack on the Obama administration for its handling of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.

Two days after the office of the Director of National Intelligence concluded that the assault, which killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, was “deliberate and organized,” Romney running mate Paul Ryan echoed calls for a congressional investigation into what Republicans describe as the administration’s shifting explanations of the attacks.

Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), a frequent critic of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, all but accused the administration of covering up the involvement of al Qaeda-allied terrorists for political reasons.

Acknowledging the role of Islamist extremists would interfere “with the depiction that the administration is trying to convey that al Qaeda is on the wane, that everything’s fine in the Middle East,” Sen. McCain said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

He was particularly critical of the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, who five days after the attack portrayed it as a spontaneous response to an online video that mocked the Prophet Muhammad, a holy figure for Muslims. Ms. Rice said the initial demonstration was hijacked by more heavily armed extremists.

“Five days later? That doesn’t pass the smell test,” Sen. McCain said. “It’s either willful ignorance or abysmal intelligence to think that people come to spontaneous demonstration with heavy weapons, mortars and the attack goes on for hours.”

David Axelrod, a senior Obama campaign adviser, responded to Mr. McCain’s criticism by saying, “That was the original information that was given to us.”

“What we don’t need is a president or administration that shoots first and asks questions later,” Mr. Axelrod told CNN, a thinly veiled jab at Mr. Romney. In the hours after of the attack on the U.S. consulate and a nearby U.S. facility, Mr. Romney drew sharp criticism for using the event to attack Mr. Obama’s foreign policy.

The Republican salvos come just over a month before Election Day, as Mr. Romney is slipping in the polls both nationally and in key battleground states such as Ohio.

Mr. Ryan, speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” said the administration’s response to the Libya crisis “was slow, it was confused, it was inconsistent.”




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