Posted on 09/03/2013 4:47:06 PM PDT by don-o
A new book contains additional confirmation of what we already know about the Obama administration's response to Benghazi attacks. Namely, that pretty much everyone up and down the chain of command understood the raid to be a terrorist attack:
Just minutes after 35 jihadists crashed through the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, nearly one year ago, the facility got word to the State Department, FBI and Pentagon that terrorists were attacking, according to a forthcoming book that provides the fullest review of the assault to date. In “Under Fire, the Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi,” it is revealed that an unidentified security official in the Benghazi compound protecting Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens messaged the U.S. embassy in Tripoli: “Benghazi under fire, terrorist attack.” Stevens and three others died that night. Twenty-five minutes after it began, the operation center at State received an electronic cable announcing the attack, according to authors Fred Burton, a former State Diplomatic Security agent and Samuel Katz, an author and expert on international special operations and counterterrorism.
Their findings in "Under Fire," based on exclusive interviews of those in the battle, refute days of claims by the administration that the attack was sparked by Muslim anger at a U.S.-made anti-Muslim film, and raise new questions as President Obama eyes military action in Syria that U.S. diplomatic posts in the region are properly protected. The authors note that at the time of the attack in Benghazi there were riots against U.S. embassies in Cairo, Tunis and elsewhere related to the film, “Innocence of Muslims.” That could have been the cause of initial confusion about the attackers, but the eyewitness accounts by State and CIA agents in the battle — backed by live video feeds from drones — should have erased any doubt.
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Hillary knew.
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This afternoon, while surfing the TV channels, I went past FNC just as our Fearless Leader was giving his “word” that we have “hard evidence” that Assad is guilty of using WMDs, yata-yata-yata!
I muttered under my breath, “Yeah, you lying bastid; you also swore on your mother’s grave that you had evidence the Benghazi attack and massacre was caused by a VIDEO!”
Just think how patient God is, that lightning still hasn’t struck the prevaricating little alien!
She more than knew...
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