Amb. Rice on ABC's This Week on September 16:
But our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous -- not a premeditated -- response to what had transpired in Cairo. In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated.
We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the embassy to -- or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo. And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons, weapons that as you know in -- in the wake of the revolution in Libya are -- are quite common and accessible. And it then evolved from there.
We'll wait to see exactly what the investigation finally confirms, but that's the best information we have at present.
Contrary to this CIA leak and Rice's statement, there was no demonstration in Benghazi. And the administration knew that in real time on September 11.
That’s the real point. It really doesn’t matter why the consulate was under attack starting 9pm local time. The point is that 100s of American watchstanders at State, the Pentagon, CIA, and the White House (if they cared) were watching and hearing the attack in real time.
But only one man could order a rescue or do anything involving American force, either from Tripoli, southern Italy, or ships at sea, and that man, Obama, instead of a rescue mission, dreamed up the video story to cover his ass.
I do not believe the washingtom compost.
They have their collective heads so far up owebama’s arse they can see pinch sulzberger’s ankles.
Oh my god they are building a cover up right before our eyes in PLAIN SIGHT and the media is complicit! WOW!
Nothing there to indicate that there had been warnings FOR MONTHS that trouble was brewing and the Ambassador had been begging for more security. He got less.
We knew here a year ago that Benghazi was a center of al Queda and had been a main source for fighters in Iraq. Are we supposed to believe that the CIA was not aware of this?
Should the Agency join FR in order to get an idea about what it happening?
It appears that different stories are being “leaked”...Hannity had information that is quite different from what is being “leaked” here. What Romney should focus on is Obama’s handling of the crisis....when did he talk PERSONALLY with his National security council? Axlerod would not answer a direct question about this. If he is saying he identified the attack as “terror,” why not meet with State and CIA, etc. to nail it down?
We know the answer....he went to Las Vega...he “phoned” it in like he does everything...
Hold on a second, they claimed the mob was caused by the video which is false.
In Obama's CIA I couldn't rule out either possibility.
Mr. Obama....
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Thanks to Fox News for the special. It would be helpful to give the times in Benghazi time and in Washington, D.C. Time. “This happened at 10:15pm Benghazi time and ??:?? Washington, D.C. Time.” Gives us a reference.
Gee, I don’t know—a WaPo-viewed 9/15 “CIA [unattributed] report” vs. sworn testimony from real-time observers and actual tapes. That’s a tough one. Bret Baier’s report didn’t come a moment too soon.
If the cia will paint iranian nukes as an issue of the past in 2007 to prevent bush from having evidence to act, why wouldn’t it be possible they would write talking points to make obama look less pathetic?
And this seems to differ with other reports which stated they knew the next day that it wasn’t the video. I watched the video, by the way. I thought it was spot on.
What?! So did Issa and Chaffetz get to look at those docs in the closed door sessions prior to the public hearings? If not, who’s withholding them?
Time for a subpoena. Let Bambi invoke exec privilege.
Aiding and abetting TREASON. (thanks for posting, kristinn)
If career CIA agents are willing to sacrifice for this guy, one, he’s got more power than I even thought and two, this nation is officially over. All that has to happen now is someone turn out the light.
My current best assessment is that you'd kick the truth to the bottom of a well to help your chosen presidential candidate who just can't quite seem to get his campaign up lately.
You ****ing syphilitic whores.
Are they really trying to make the CIA out to be a bunch of politically influenced buffoons?
I would expect a grand exodus of these buffoons out the door any day now. Either they are incompetent or they are incompetent liars.
There were no demonstrations in Benghazi. There were demonstrations in Cairo Egypt. Not Benghazi. Benghazi had no demonstrations.
Did all the German people hate the Jews? I don’t think so. How could the German people ignore the abuse and slaughter of the Jews? Many have tried to blame it on the influence of strict Prussian obedience. I don’t think so. Germany was thought to be the most liberal and progressive nation in the world at that time by many people. Hitler and the National Socialists sold the German people on a Nazi paradise. Yeah, maybe some Jews were getting hurt and killed, but the Nazis were going to have a socialist utopia in Germany. It was for the higher calling. Didn’t I hear that phrase today, “higher calling”? Wasn’t it about Obama? That’s where the US media is today. Yeah, the Democrats lie and steal and have policies that kill hundreds of thousands of people, but they’re answering a higher calling. They’re going to give us paradise here in America.
The media refuse to look in the mirror at themselves. The Washington Post is providing cover for the liars, thieves and killers in the Democrat party. But it’s OK because the Democrats tell them that there’s a few bad things, but they’re really trying to create a paradise. And so the media in Cambodia said that the plastic bags the Khmer Rouge used to suffocate people were just a spiffy new fashion accessory handed out for free by the loving Khmer Rouge. The American press are a bunch of suckers and cowards.