Posted on 11/02/2012 9:04:40 AM PDT by maggief
Remember how the White House insisted for more than a week that there was no evidence that the sacking of the Benghazi consulate was anything more than a spontaneous demonstration over a two-month-old YouTube video that spun out of control? Fox News this morning reports that cables from the consulate itself made clear that they expected an attack from local militia groups in the hours before the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. They also told the State Department that they had reason to believe their local security was gathering intel for the attack:
If this is the case, then why wasnt the FEST team ready to intervene? Actually, as Allahpundit noted last night, the military and CIA did have their teams ready. Now it appears that the State Department, at least, had three hours notice of radical Islamist activity in the city gathering weapons and gathering steam, plus a very big warning about consulate security being compromised. Yet while the attack took place, no one gave the order for a military intervention. Even hours into the attack, the White House didnt go any farther than order an evacuation effort at the Benghazi airport.
This spontaneous demonstration story is falling apart. And its interesting to see how its falling apart, too. Earlier, the White House tried to lay off the failure on the intel community, which sparked a flurry of leaks showing that the intel community had warned of this issue and wanted to respond during the attack. This week, the White House has started to shift blame to State, and now were seeing these leaks showing that State knew exactly what was going on.
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Wven if that was so, the final result was murder. SIX Americans were killed that night and no one lifted a finger to stop it.They watched. THAT is murder. Period.
I have been wondering about the saved people.
It could be they are CIA operatives and thus their names can’t be out there for obvious reasons.
Or..maybe there were not 30 saved.
And why are the sensitive documents still being found in Benghazi.
Where was the CIA clean up crew? Or the NSA clean up Crew, etc.
Very good question.
This whole thing has me so furious I can't believe it.
That the press could cover this up to give cover for this pos in the WH is just unfathomable to me..grrrrrr!!!
“Now it appears that the State Department, at least, had three hours notice of radical Islamist activity in the city gathering weapons and gathering steam, plus a very big warning about consulate security being compromised”
That certainly sheds light on why Sean Smith made the comment to his gamer friends about whether they’d “die tonight”
Makes sense. For some reason I had it in my mind they were like support staff for the Consolata but your assertion is likely true.
Don't know what I was thinking.
sfl
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