Right now, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is available on Netflix. Not available on that streaming site? The YouTube video the Obama administration falsely blamed for inciting the 2012 terrorist attack on our embassy in Libya, which left four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador, dead.
No one seems to care six years later. Netflix certainly doesn’t. They just hired Susan Rice.
After eight years in the Obama administration, first as ambassador to the United Nations and later as national security adviser, Rice will join the board of the video streaming service.
“We are delighted to welcome Ambassador Rice to the Netflix board,” said Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings in a press release. “For decades, she has tackled difficult, complex global issues with intelligence, integrity and insight, and we look forward to benefiting from her experience and wisdom.”
Had Netflix asked Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., for a reference during the interview process, they’d say the last “difficult, complex global issue” Rice solved was a political cover-up during an election year. Rice had claimed, for the nation to watch, that the attack was a spontaneous demonstration gone wrong. The Obama administration later had to admit that there were no demonstrations; the “demonstrators” were actually attackers with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades carrying out a pre-planned terror attack on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Despite being a billion-dollar company with 117 million customers in over 190 countries across the globe, Rice’s experience in misinformation probably won’t be needed, and it isn’t immediately clear what Rice will be actually do for Netflix other than collect a paycheck.
The hiring does come at interesting moment though. Obama gave Netflix net neutrality, an internet policy that padded the streaming service’s bottom line. Now Netflix could give Obama a new television series. And maybe to sweeten the deal, to get the former president onto the digital silver screen, Netflix is giving the former president’s most loyal diplomat a new gig. Now she can watch whatever she wants.
