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To: MestaMachine
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"Remember, it was Barack Obama who issued Executive Privilege that has allowed him to hide any White House related information from Congressional investigators.

"Some SERIOUS stuff going on right now…"

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752 posted on 10/03/2012 11:15:35 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT; All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2939675/posts

U.S. had early indications Libya attack tied to organized militants
Reuters ^ | Oct. 3, 2012 | Mark Hosenball and Tabassum Zakaria

Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:03:22 PM by Free ThinkerNY

Reuters) - Within hours of last month’s attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, President Barack Obama’s administration received about a dozen intelligence reports suggesting militants connected to al Qaeda were involved, three government sources said.

Despite these reports, in public statements and private meetings, top U.S. officials spent nearly two weeks highlighting intelligence suggesting that the attacks were spontaneous protests against an anti-Muslim film, while playing down the involvement of organized militant groups.

It was not until last Friday that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s office issued an unusual public statement, which described how the picture that intelligence agencies presented to U.S. policymakers had “evolved” into an acknowledgement that the attacks were “deliberate and organized” and “carried out by extremists.”

The existence of the early reports appears to raise fresh questions about the Obama administration’s public messaging about the attack as it seeks to fend off Republican charges that the White House failed to prevent a terrorist strike that left a U.S. ambassador and three others dead.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/03/us-usa-libya-intelligence-idUSBRE89201220121003


753 posted on 10/03/2012 12:20:32 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason.)
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