In a blockbuster report, John Solomon, the former Associated Press and Post reporter, has ferreted out the president's daily brief that informed him within 72 hours of the Sept. 11 attack that the Benghazi attack was a jihadist operation.
Citing officials directly familiar with the information, Solomon writes in the Washington Guardian that Obama and other administration officials were told that "that the attack was likely carried out by local militia and other armed extremists sympathetic to al-Qaida in the region."
He adds:
The details from the CIA and Pentagon assessments of the killing of Ambassador Chris [Stevens] were far more specific, more detailed and more current than the unclassified talking points that UN Ambassador Susan Rice and other officials used five days after the attack to suggest to Americans that an unruly mob angry over an anti-Islamic video was to blame, officials said.
Most of the details affirming al-Qaida links were edited or excluded from the unclassified talking points used by Rice in appearances on news programs the weekend after the attack, officials confirmed Friday. Multiple agencies were involved in excising information, doing so because it revealed sources and methods, dealt with classified intercepts or involved information that was not yet fully confirmed, the officials said.
Solomon cautions that there were bits of evidence pointing to a spontaneous attack but, as Eli Lake of the Daily Beast and others have reported, he writes: “Among the early evidence cited in the briefings to the president and other senior officials were intercepts showing some of the participants were known members or supporters of Ansar al-Sharia — the al-Qaida-sympathizing militia in Libya — and the AQIM, which is a direct affiliate of al-Qaida in northern Africa, the officials said.”
From Obama’s perspective, it doesn’t matter. The media shielded him from criticism and he got past the election, so now he has more flexibility. If there is a major war in the Middle East in the next four years, someone else will be blamed. If a lot of Israelis get killed, he may issue a perfunctory statement denouncing the perpetrators, but without the outrage he expressed over Susan Rice being criticized. Anyway it wouldn’t be his problem, it would be the problem of the 2016 Democratic nominee.
Three questions for Benghazi-Coward Obama:
1.) Are you HIDING INFORMATION from the US Congress about the Benghazi Massacre?
2.) Have you been LYING to the US Congress, The Media, or the American Public about the Benghazi Massacre?
3.) Were you, as Commander in Chief, GROSSLY NEGLIGENT about your responsibilities to protect and assist those four Americans who subsequently were murdered in the Benghazi Massacre?
Please do not stop blasting this issue all over.
Voter fraud issue takes time to solve;
but this issue has legs, as long as we don’t get distracted and admit defeat.
Keep it up everywhere we can keep this issue alive and well:-
The fact is, the reference to Al Qaeda was taken out somewhere along the line by someone outside the intelligence community, Representative
Peter T. King, a New York Republican, said after the House hearing. We need to find out who did it and why.
Now the obama admin says they tried to avoid tipping off AQ after Libya attack thus the lies. REALLY?
So they admit they knew about AL Qaeda involvement at the beginning.
Why didn’t they act to counter their attacks right away instead waiting for days to take actions?
So
1. they knew
2. they won’t tell
3. they didn’t act either
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LIES LIES LIES!!!!
THEY LIE TO COVER UP THEIR MURDER OF THE AMERICANS!
WE CANNOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH MURDER!