one question
who told hillary that it was over a bogus film?
just keep asking pointed questions
You mean, who told Hillary to say that it was over a bogus film.
Hillary knew perfectly well that it wasn’t, and I think that’s why the high-level person that the WH sent out to talk it up was the UN Ambassador Susan Rice, who was unconnected with the events in any way and probably really didn’t have much first-hand knowledge of the actual attack. Thus, if people challenged her, she could always say she was just relying on what “sources” told her and get away without directly lying to the media or, ultimately, perjuring herself.
Even though minions in the State Dept had almost immediately sent out the video story to foreign missions, indicating that the story had been prepared even in advance of Benghazi as a cover story for any Islamic attacks on 9/11, Hillary had virtually no firm statements at first, because she knew too much about it. But once that narrative, including massaging of the CIA reports to reflect it, came out from the Muslim-loving WH and survived its trial run without being challenged, it became the official story and she felt perfectly free to proclaim it.
I think we’re going to find that this whole scheme was an effort on the part of the WH to build up what someone else called “plausible deniability.” The unusual thing, as Hanson points out, is that the WH got all the rest of the departments and agencies to fall in with the lie almost immediately. The WH was seeking not only deniability of Obama’s incompetence and lack of interest, but deniability of their real intention, whatever it was. (Arming AQ?)