After the 9/11/2012 murders of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama Administration was in full covereup mode. They required that someone go on five 9/16/2012 Sunday talk shows to make the case that our diplomats had died because of a YouTube video and not a terrorist attack. 

The Administration did not want to pick an  individual familiar with any aspect of Benghazi. He or she would have  been subjected to challenging questioning (?) beginning with, "What did  you know and when did you know it?" 

So United Nations Ambassador Susan  Rice was trotted out. Her relatively clean hands allowed her to  present a false narrative and get away with it. Today, anyone with a  lick of sense knows that she (however innocent) was the carrier of the  YouTube lie.      

President Obama will not even nominate Susan Rice for  the position of Secretary of State for the simple reason that at the  confirmation hearing, she would be grilled under oath about who briefed  her (provided her with the YouTube lie) before her Sunday talk show appearances, the exact conditions of the briefing, and the extent to  which she suspected that she had been chosen to propagate a lie. Her  testimony would at the very least juice the scandal by sparking interest in the names of the officials who provided her with the lie and the  names of the superiors who approved it. She has been floated as a  possible Secretary of State to give the President the opportunity to tar  her critics as racists and sexists and to conceal the fact that she  will not be nominated.    

Susan Rice's career has stalled, not entirely due to  her own failings, but she can take comfort from playing a useful role in  saving President Obama from the consequences of his silly and deadly  (for Americans) policy with regard to Muslim terrorists.    

Scott Varland is an American lawyer residing in London, England.