This sentence needs to be parsed carefully.
1. the annex had Libyan militia prisoners
2. the attach on the consulate was an effort to get these prisoners back.
But the initial attack was the attack on the consulate (not the annex where she says the prisoners were held), so the consulate attack would have occurred _before_ any additional prisoner may have been taken in that attack and taken to the annex to be added to the previously held prisoners, if her statement is true.
This would have been known to all those who tried to blame the attack on the video, if true.
Broadwell had a security clearance and knew the rules, so the words “I don’t know if a lot of you heard this, but” should never have come out of her mouth unless she was mentally impaired for some reason. She must have had some basis for thinking that this was declassified.
That’s why, when I first saw the video to mark the time for a ping, I said then that she didn’t seem to know what she was talking about. There were TWO separate battles at that compound that night.
The terrorists that very day said the initial attack on the mission, was revenge for al Libbi’s killing.
The us or liyan security probably captured some of their guys in that initial attack and they ended up in the annex when the survivors moved to that, which is why people last night were thinking the entire thing was about a hidden interrogation center or something and these prisoners had been captured long before. Looks more like they were captured in the first firefight, as the Libyans originally said. I think there was a photo of someone with their arms bound behind their back being taken out among all the other tapes that night.