Maggie: Are you asking for source of that quote? Debate transcript below.
I heard that Jen Rubin highlighted it on her blog. Bill Henner on Fox picked it up from her or on his own, I don't know, BUT FR beat both of them. THAT fact had never been reported before and no one picked it up as a new fact until the day after.
DEBATE TRANSCRIPT with that Obama quote: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2945950/posts
Q: This question actually comes from a brain trust of my friends at Global Telecom Supply in Mineola yesterday. We were sitting around talking about Libya, and we were reading and became aware of reports that the State Department refused extra security for our embassy in Benghazi, Libya, prior to the attacks that killed four Americans. Who was it that denied enhanced security and why?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, let me, first of all, talk about our diplomats, because they serve all around the world and do an incredible job in a very dangerous situation. And these aren't just representatives of the United States; they're my representatives. I send them there, oftentimes into harm's way. I know these folks, and I know their families. So nobody's more concerned about their safety and security than I am.
So as soon as we found out that the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team, and I gave them three instructions. Number one, beef up our security and — and — and procedures not just in Libya but every embassy and consulate in the region. Number two, investigate exactly what happened, regardless of where the facts lead us, to make sure that folks are held accountable and it doesn't happen again. And number three, we are going to find out who did this, and we are going to hunt them down, because one of the things that I've said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with Americans, we go after them.
I hate to say this but there are senators and congress critters on our side that already know what happened because they were briefed. It may not have been a factual briefing by the WH..but lots of them have ways of finding out stuff. Why haven’t they leaked? That really bothers me a lot. Washington should be leaking like a sieve by now, but very little is getting out. My guess is that Obama and his minions have wrapped it in a nice little package called ‘national security’ , so that it shuts everyone up. They can’t talk with the penalty of disclosing national security secrets hanging over their heads. I am afraid that AQ and other MB groups have gotten hold of Libya and Syria’s chemical weapon WMDS and our government is freaking out.
‘the Taliban is in the building’ and Panetta doesn’t know where the chemical weapons are......remember he announced that just days before this attack or was it a few days after? I know it was recently.
Thank you. Another lie?
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, let me, first of all, talk about our diplomats, because they serve all around the world and do an incredible job in a very dangerous situation. And these aren’t just representatives of the United States; they’re my representatives. I send them there, oftentimes into harm’s way. I know these folks, and I know their families. So nobody’s more concerned about their safety and security than I am.
So as soon as we found out that the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team, and I gave them three instructions. Number one, beef up our security and — and — and procedures not just in Libya but every embassy and consulate in the region. Number two, investigate exactly what happened, regardless of where the facts lead us, to make sure that folks are held accountable and it doesn’t happen again. And number three, we are going to find out who did this, and we are going to hunt them down, because one of the things that I’ve said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with Americans, we go after them.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-11
5:00 pm
The President and the Vice President meet with Secretary of Defense
Oval Office
Closed Press
Obama was informed about the developments in Libya by his National Security Adviser Tom Donilon as the president began a weekly meeting Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey. The White House said Obama was kept apprised throughout the evening and then again Wednesday morning.