When WAPO turns on you, you’re in trouble.
Via Washington Post:
Susan Rice may want to stop giving interviews at this point.
While Rice’s ascent in Democratic foreign policy circles is the stuff of legend, she has also demonstrated a completely unhelpful tendency to say the wrong thing to the media. And it’s come back to bite her twice just this month.
The most recent example was highlighted Monday by The Post’s Fact Checker, Glenn Kessler. In an NPR interview three months before Syria’s government allegedly used chemical weapons on its own people last week, Rice had hailed the Obama administration’s success in removing such chemical weapons. “We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile,” she said.
[Susan Rice’s claim that Obama got Syria to ‘verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile’]
But this was a highly questionable claim even at the time. Secretary of State John Kerry’s exit memo to President Barack Obama, which was released 11 days before Rice’s Jan. 16 interview, noted that “unfortunately other undeclared chemical weapons continue to be used ruthlessly on the Syrian people.”