[SampleMan]

We need to get more pry bars into this story.

[GraceG]

I think they just decided to surf youtube.....

[McGruff]

Good question. I never heard of it before that date. Did anyone?

[MestaMachine]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3020336/posts

BENGHAZI DOT ONE, WHY THE VIDEO AND WHY AP

[Okieshooter]

Huma Mahmood Abedin

[autumnraine]

There really was (supposedly) a protest in Egypt and they just decided to make it seem like a ‘movement’ of some sorts.

[Servant of the Cross]

Stephen F. Hayes at The Weekly Standard has been simply terrific in all of his Benghazi reporting. Here's "What About The Video?"

Very compelling chronology of the events and analysis on the who, why and when the video excuse came from.

[Sweet Hour of Prayer]

We’re supposed to be talking about the IRS scandal and forget the Benghazi tragedy. I’m going to join the Tea Party if the media lets Benghazi drop.

[TigersEye]

Hillary was the first to use the "Youtube video" excuse.

10:38-39 p.m., 9/11/12. @StateDept tweets: " #SecClinton: I condemn in the strongest terms the attack on our mission in Benghazi today. http://state.gov #Libya" and "#SecClinton: We have confirmed one @StateDept officer was killed in #Libya. We are heartbroken by this terrible loss." Hillary Clinton issues a statement, saying, "I condemn in the strongest terms the attack on our mission in Benghazi today. As we work to secure our personnel and facilities, we have confirmed that one of our State Department officers was killed. We are heartbroken by this terrible loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and those who have suffered in this attack." She adds: "Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind."

That was when Hillary herself took over the Cairo embassy Twitter account and personally posted. (anyone who thinks she wasn't directing the earlier Tweets is smoking something) That was at 10:38 PM Eastern Time. That would have been 4:38 AM Sept. 13th in Benghazi. About the time Woods and Doherty were making their last stand.

The first known non-specific reference to "the video" was made in apologies tweeted by the Cairo embassy in the early morning of Sept. 11th before any crowd had assembled there.

[Brad from Tennessee]

If only a minority of people in the Arab world knew about the video a majority knew about it after the Administration seized on it as the cause of all anti-American sentiment in the Middle East. Obama told the world at the UN, and he and Hillary produced a TV commercial for Pakistanis apologizing for the video. Obama’s disinformation campaign didn't fool anybody and was embarrassing on an international scale.

Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif: “The idea that this criminal and cowardly act was a spontaneous protest that just spun out of control is completely unfounded and preposterous. We firmly believe that this was a pre-calculated, preplanned attack that was carried out specifically to attack the U.S. Consulate.”

[Gene Eric]

Not to seem dismissive of those murdered at Benghazi, I find the assault against the 1st Amendment to be an incredibly egregious crime against the Country, its citizens, the Constitution.

US officials advanced to the World the opinion that speech in the form of art/video is responsible for the terrorism inflicted against the US, US Citizens, US interests. In this Benghazi case, these same officials held that speech was the catalyst for murder.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

The false narrative was quickly spread by the media. Watch the deception at work here, this published immediately on Sept. 11, 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlUFuX_9dwA

Notice they call Nakoula, 'Sam Basile' (sounds like a CIA play on the word "Imbecile"), and that they call him an "Israeli American" when in actuality he is a Coptic Christian American?

[jobim]

1. Incompetent handling of security warnings and concerns prior to the attack.
My armchair sleuthing doesn't lead me to agree with this point.
This administration is expressly involved in the building of a
Muslim Brotherhood caliphate, which includes removing Assad
in Syria. The gun-running out of Benghazi through Turkey needed
cover & silence to operate effectively. They needed a place
for Stevens to periodically oversee the transactions, but one
sufficiently invisible to the media.

2.Criminal negligence in the response during the attack.
Again, because these were covert operations, exposing this through
a calamitous event involving our military was to be avoided. Among
the weapons on the ground there were surface-to-air rockets capable
of taking down our aircraft sent to rescue/fight. The administration
simply could not afford this exposure. Indeed, avoid any fighting
on our side whatsoever and think of a reason later was the impromptu plan.

3. Cover-up of #1 and #2.
Interesting thing about the concoction they went with - the video - is its history.
Back when all this happened, there was a website which unfortunately I now forgot,
where a fellow traces the lineage of this video, how it went through several names,
and what URL or IPS (I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff) put it up on youtube,
tracing it in Arlington, VA I believe. I think it possible that they found this
video and kept it in the ready for just such an occasion, which is the modus operandi of the Left.

[Kharis13]

Well thought out, simple and to-the-point synopsis of the Benghazi cover-up. There’s been a lot of talk floated about gun running, prisoner exchanges to make Obama look heroic, etc. I’m of the opinion the whole scenario is much simpler, basically what you’re claiming, SampleMan. This administration was asleep at the switch, got caught with their pants down, and then, because of the impending election, they had to cover up their mistakes.

So where do we go from here? Just keep connecting the dots and watch where the line leads. I think we all know where.

[lacrew]

The complete absence of the video in the released e-mails indicates:

We don’t have the really important e-mails.

[Artie]

IMO, the video of the was always going to be part of the cover story...when or if things went south with the “kidnapping operation”. It was a CIA contrived and produced part of the caper.

[dfwgator]

That’s what angers me the most about this whole thing....they wanted by attacking the video, to attack our rights to Free Speech.

[Scotswife]

I’ll have to go with Valerie Jarrett on this one.

[vpintheak]

I also want to know where the video maker is. Does anyone know?

[muir_redwoods]

And did the videographer ever get out of jail?

[cincinnati65]

To my recollection, the “video” only had a few hundred hits when I found it, which was well after it was used as the excuse.