W.H. Tries to Write Al Qaeda Out of Libya Story

Weekly Standard ^ | 12:22 PM, Oct 20, 2012 | STEPHEN F. HAYES

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Obama administration appears to be mounting yet another version of its campaign to push back on claims that it misled on the intelligence related to the attacks in Benghazi on 9/11/12. But the new offensive by the administration, which contradicts many of its earlier claims and simply disregards intelligence that complicates its case, is raising fresh questions in the intelligence community and on Capitol Hill about the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes.

The administration's new line takes shape in two articles out Saturday, one in the Los Angeles Times and the other by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. The Times piece reports that there is no evidence of an al Qaeda role in the attack.

[Paladin2]

It’s still all about Islamic Jihad.

[bitt]

Oh yeah?

Maybe they’d better look at this before they go to press:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2947585/posts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks goes to freeperQbert for pointing out this article....

Freeper Oldeconomybuyer posted the LA Times article :

No evidence found of Al Qaeda role in Libya attack

I posted this article linked to by Drudge:

CIA found militant links a day after Libya attack

This was put on the wire by the AP Oct 19, 3:28 AM (ET) | KIMBERLY DOZIER .....and MYNEWS.

[Vince Ferrer]

there is no evidence of an al Qaeda role in the attack.

...except for the black Al Qaeda flags they raised on the top of the building.

[bitt]

They’re afraid we’re going to find out that the weapons used at the Consulate, that killed our Ambassador, were marked “Made in USA”.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks

[alloysteel]

The Benghazi attack was the payback for Obama taking out Osama bin Ladin. Al Qaeda is back and badder than ever.

Thanks for that fine show of spiking the ball, Barack. You have truly made a martyr out of bin Ladin.

Allah is pleased.

That might not be a good thing for the rest of the world, though.

[bitt]

“first ‘Fast and Furious’ - and now ‘Slow and Spurious’”

http://coldfury.com/2012/10/18/slow-and-spurious/

[TigersEye]

It was the local Kiwanis Club. They were upset that Amb. Stevens favored the Benghazi Lions Club.

Benghazi: A Sea of Al-Qaeda Flags NRO, November 5, 2011

Note the date.

[Qbert]

An interesting analysis from one of Instapundit’s readers:

“That memo raises more serious questions about the cover-up than it answers and does not provide cover for Obama. The information that they supposedly relied on for the memo was an intercept involving an Al Qaida operative. That Al Qaida connection was left out of the memo. More importantly, we know that the CIA knew the day after the attack that it was a terrorist attack and Al Qaida was involved. So why is the administration and CIA circulating the Talking Points memo, which goes to Capitol Hill, on the 15th? This looks more than anything like they were intentional deceiving Congress. Rice/Obama/Ignatius might have had a point if the memo were released on 12th. However, the release of of a memo on the 15th, to Congress, containing assertions everyone in the intelligence community knew to be false, raises the questions of who wrote the memo and who approved it. Obama himself has now claimed he called it a terrorist attack on the 12th. In any event, we know that was the conclusion of the intelligence community on the 12th. So why was he having the CIA lie to Congress on the 15th?”

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/154820/

[gaijin]

In what public venue on the 12th did he term it a terrorist attack..?

[Qbert]

"In what public venue on the 12th did he term it a terrorist attack..?"

He- and Crowley- both strongly implied at the 2nd debate that his 9/12 Rose Garden "acts of terror" words were specifically addressing Benghazi, and that they weren't (as many believed from the context of the speech) just throw-away, generalized lines the day after the 9/11 anniversary. And in the days following the debate, Obama ran around acting like he meant it was terrorism from the beginning.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Keep after it.....what a clown Barack is.

Go to run to the store....be back later.

[freekitty]

How many story lies are they going to tell until they realize no one believes them?

[DJ MacWoW]

MI6 knew that al-Qaeda was openly operating in the area following a failed assassination attempt on Sir Dominic Asquith, Britain's ambassador to Libya, in June.

Mr Clueless Knew

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[blueunicorn6]

The littlest dog gets that same look on his face when I whistle in the house. Maybe Romney should whistle when Obama’s talking and see if he stops and cocks his head.

[DJ MacWoW]

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Libya's President disagrees.

[Diogenesis]

The Real Reason for the Ambassador's Murder and the Obama/DNC Coverup

al Qaeda, Boko Harem, pirates from Somalia, AQIM, al Shabaab, AQAP,
and Ansar al Sharia were (conveniently) provided
15,000 MANPADS by Obama and the DNC
For plausible deniability, Operation 'Wind Zero',
using Sean Smith and the two retired SEALS,
executed by the company and State Department
tracked this "loss" (planned transfer to al Qaeda
from Obama's American Caliphate) and
produced a 'kill list’ for drone strikes.

This was apparently not approved by Al Qaeda in Libya's ringleader,
Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda bin Qumu,
who was employed by Hillary Clinton and
Obama-the-Undocumented, and
was released from Gitmo to Qaddafi in 2007.
The SECOND 911 Atrocity was Hussein Obama's October Surprise
which got a little out of hand.