Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yayin da yakin basasa na Libya na 2011 ya ci gaba, Amurka da kawayenta sun ba da zabi ga Kanar Muammar Gaddafi da mataimakansa: sauka daga mulki ko fuskantar martani na kasa da kasa. Rice ta ba da wasu daga cikin maganganu mafi tsauri ga Gaddafi, yana sukar ƙaryatãwa game da zalunci ga 'yan ƙasa na kansa a matsayin "a fili, mai banƙyama". A wani taron rufe kofa na Kwamitin Tsaro a watan Afrilun 2011, an ba da rahoton cewa Rice ta bayyana cewa masu biyayya ga Gaddafi sun shiga cikin ayyukan ta'addanci, gami da tsoratar da jama'a da tashin hankali na jima'i, kuma an ba sojojin Gaddafi Viagra. Binciken da Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch da Doctors Without Borders suka yi ya saɓa wa Rice kuma sun bayyana cewa ba su sami shaidar farko ba cewa an yi fyade da yawa kamar yadda Rice ta yi iƙirari. Tare da Kwamitin Tsaro na Kasa, Samantha Power, wanda ya riga ya goyi bayan aikin soja na Amurka a Libya
, da Sakataren Harkokin Wajen Hillary Clinton, wanda ya zo ya goyi bayan shi, su uku sun shawo kan adawar cikin gida daga Sakataren Tsaro Robert Gates, mai ba da shawara kan tsaro Thomas E. Donilon, da mai ba da shawara kan ta'addanci John Brennan, don samun gwamnatin ta gabatar da shawarar Majalisar Dinkin Duniya don sanya yankin da ba a tashi sama da Libya ba da kuma ba da izinin sauran ayyukan soja kamar yadda ya cancanta.