There's one totally imponderable question in all of this: Who came up with the "offensive video" excuse...and why?
I seriously doubt it was Clapper. Why would the Director of Intelligence even know about an obscure video posted on You Tube since July that had seen fewer than a thousand hits?
Indeed, who in the administration would have reason to know about an obscure video that ridiculed Islam and bore the amateurish signature of a Pallywood-style propaganda piece -- which had been produced and posted on YouTube for no apparent purpose?
By definition, wouldn't that be somebody who was familiar with the video from its production?
And who might that be? Wouldn't it be somebody whose primary interest was in improving the administration's "outreach" to the Muslim Brotherhood? Somebody who recognized that the video had value as a "provacateur" device?
I think maybe I'd start with Huma Abedin. Or Valerie Jarrett.
You can but you will wind up in axelrod’s office....
IMHO:
The Administration knew Libya/Benghazi was a powderkeg ready to explode .... they were just riding the “al-Quaeda defeated/it’s all good in Libya” pony as hard as they could, trying to get past election day without it blowing up so Obama could tout his foreign policy/Osama killing .... it was the only real ‘positive’ he had since the economy was/is still in the tank. I think those plotting strategy for the campaign had addressed what in the heck they would do if something like the consulate attack happened BEFORE election day (like on the anniversary of 9/11*) ... how would they handle it? Somebody came up with a ‘protest caused it’ idea and they went out looking for something that maybe could spark one .... somebody got lucky and found that video which had hardly any hits for months, but could be twisted into a narrative to reduce a terrorist attack down to something that could be managed and not kill Obama’s re-election.
Then, it happened .... the terrorists didn’t wait until after election day &, on the anniversary of 9-11, they killed 4 Americans. The video meme was waitng to be employed and it was, quickly and relentlessly. It was the pro-active strategy that had been pre-planned for just such an event, sort of like the “countermeasure flares” that are deployed by aircraft when missiles are fired at them ... the missiles are hopefully diverted by/hit the flare(s), not the plane. The Obama admin is now out of ‘flares’ ... but the missiles of truth were diverted long enough for him to be re-elected.
*They didn’t do the obvious to avoid/survive an attack because beefing up security would be a tacit admission that Obama’s bragging that a-Q were ‘on their heels’ was not in fact the truth on the ground.
Okay, let me state it in summary if you will allow:
-We agree that the administration lied with the information they gave out up to and including that horrible Obama talk to the UN when he asserted that the future did not belong to those who would insult the Profit Mohammed?
-we agree that Amb. Rice agreed, probably for a promise of Sec/State, to go out and be the big dummbbell that would carry the water?
—we agree that four Americans died and every chance they get, the pubs should mention this fact?
—we agree that the so-called CIA Talking points did NOT change themselves no matter how much they shall pee upon our feet and tell us it’s raining. The Blue Blood GOP has to sit around like big dolts discussing how the talking points could have changed themselves, like such a thing is possible, they must discuss in front of our mocking eyes till THEY reach agreement, which might be who knows when?
What we do NOT yet agree on is WHY?
I mean let the Blue Blood boobs sit and discuss the silly, one of these days the Tea Party will suddenly go spinning into space on its own, so we must be ready.
-—finally...well I think we mostly know that it was either Jarrett or one of those illegally in control of our country, we know it, the Blue Blood GOP prolly knows it, the UN knows it, Israel knows it, France knows it, the Muslim Brotherhood knows it...dear Lord....can we get on with this?
Or not.
Somebody make a decision.