Meet the woman at the center of the Benghazi controversy

[DonViejo]

State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland is a former Cheney aide married to a Romney adviser

BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD

After ABC News released emails detailing the evolution of the Obama administration’s talking points on the Benghazi terror attack, much of the right’s ire has focused on Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokesperson who asked for the removal of references to al-Qaida and the CIA’s warnings about the dangers to U.S. diplomats in Libya.

With her name splashed all over the emails and her very public role in Hillary Clinton’s State Department, Nuland serves the useful duel role of scapegoat and proxy for the potential 2016 presidential candidate, who may be the real target of conservative uproar over Benghazi. Naturally, critics ascribe political motives to Nuland’s actions in the Benghazi aftermath. “It’s very clear today that lib Victoria Nuland was not honest with reporters,” conservative blogger Jim Hoft wrote.

But Nuland may prove to be a poor choice of left-wing villains for the right considering that her records suggests she’s anything but a Saul Alinskyite. In fact, she came under attack from the left when Clinton chose her as spokesperson because she had previously served as a senior adviser to Dick Cheney. Yes, that Dick Cheney, leading anti-war blogger Marcy Wheeler to call her a “former Cheney hack.”

Meanwhile, Nuland is married to Washington Post columnist and neoconservative historian Robert Kagan, who helped sell the case for the Iraq war, advised both Mitt Romney and John McCain’s presidential campaigns, and co-founded the Project for a New American Century think tank with Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol. Obama has spoken fondly of some of Kagan’s work as well, but his credentials in the conservative foreign policy establishment are unimpeachable.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/05/13/meet_the_woman_at_the_center_of_the_benghazi_controversy/

[bemildred]

1. These Mighty Wurlitzer driven scandals are always contrived.

How many times? If they had a real scandal, they would not need the Media Bullhorn to give it an illusion of substance.

It's the only trick they know.

Someone needs to look into who started this IRS "scandal" too.

[Dawson Leery]

2. Neo-con scum.

[patrice]

3. Wow! + (a little indefinite pronoun reference in the last sentence of the clip.) Kagan's credentials

are unimpeachable to the OIL Wars 'r' US cohort, PNAC, so Victoria Nuland is a SME par- excellence! on matters al-Qaeda-esque & etc.

((I'm trying to be open about Hillary*, but the KXL deal is just so very obnoxious in EVERY way, except raising the price of gas, of which I approve to some extent.))

*And Hillary Clinton has fallen on her sword for this bunch, much to the consternation of people who would be her genuine enthusiastic supporters if she had NOT done that, but, then, perhaps, because she has, her "bonafides" are established enough with PNAC that she no longer owes them that particular service, so she won't (???) do such a thing again and maybe, then, American war slavery can begin to wither on that bitter vine that sucks our Earth's life-bloods at such profoundly tragic costs to all generations of the human family.

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btw,

America NEEDS trains!

p

[deutsey]

4. Things that make you go "Hmmm"

[geek tragedy]

5. A worthy sacrificial lamb. nt

[patrice]

6. K&R

[patrice]

7. I think we saw one part of the staging for this whole thing, here at DU, with a significant wave of

Susan Rice devotees . . .

"... because John McCain 'hates' her ..." ... maybe!, maybe not, but my reverse psychology filters kicked in and I also read a little bit about Susan Rice's PNAC -ian career . . . and now at the U.N., which, U.N., "our" Senate hates to the tune called by corporate persons sponsoring Tea Partiers and Rush Limbaugh's fat mouth, a tune that currently is trying to whistle past the graveyards created by their protection of PRIVATE ASSAULT WEAPONS MARKETS' - and their PROFITS - all around the World.

[patrice]

8. Shared.