I still can’t get a grasp on why it was so critical to blame Benghazi, Cairo, etc. on a video trailer? Especially if it was an absolute certainly that this ruse would fall apart.
I guess they calculated that bearing the blame for being non-vigilant and without adequate security during a terrorist attack was a much more damaging scenario than eventually being busted for lying about a video trailer.
War on free speech... the admin has been trying to appease the Muslim Bro which has demands for anti-blasphemy laws...
And then there is a possible need to use internet videos' "incitement to riot" as an excuse for an internet "kill switch." I'm sure this admin would like to have an internet system for this country that works like irans, with a built-in bottleneck with just a few access points that the government can sit on.
Or my personal favorite, the simple one, that the Obama admin and media have been trying to pretend that Obama's single handed killing bin Laden ended al Qaeda and we can come home now because Arab Spring is in the air and the Taliban are our friends. If the rioting was caused by an American-made video then it's not terrorism, and it's not Iran.
Just my humble opinion, but if you recall, the crap in Egypt started much earlier in the day and was really a post 9/11 plus freedom for the Blind Sheik demonstration.
The administration took the party line that it was all about the video just to cover their dealings with the Brotherhood on the Blind Sheik bastard, and then a few hours later all hell broke loose in Benghazi.
They kept the same 'spontaneous lines about the video, and then got caught in a trap that they are still trying to spin their way out of.