Posted on 09/18/2012 7:32:38 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
Two days after the Obama administration's top diplomat to the United Nations insisted the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya was "spontaneous," the White House opened the door Tuesday to the possibility of other explanations.
"We have provided information about what we believe was the precipitating cause of the protest and violence based on the information that we have had available," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday. "The FBI is investigating, and that investigation will follow the facts wherever they lead."
Carney continued to claim that "we do not have any indication at this point of premeditation or pre-planned attacks," but went on to say: "we're not making declarations ahead of the facts here."
Perhaps significantly, Carney did not go so far as U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice in detailing what the administration thinks happened. In doing so, Carney appeared to acknowledge that the investigation could offer a different version of events.
Rice said on "Fox News Sunday" -- one of several Sunday show interviews she granted -- that the administration believes the attack was not "preplanned" or "premeditated." Instead, Rice said, it was a "spontaneous" reaction to protests in Egypt over an anti-Islam film, and extremist elements "joined the fray" before it "spun out of control."
However, that account clashed with claims by the Libyan president that the attack was in fact premeditated. Other sources, including an intelligence source in Libya who spoke to Fox News, have echoed those claims. The intelligence source even said that, contrary to the suggestion by the Obama administration, there was no major protest in Benghazi before the deadly attack which killed four Americans. A U.S. official did not dispute the claim.
In the face of these conflicting accounts, Carney on Tuesday deferred to the ongoing investigation.
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I don’t care.
Do it here muzzie.
Do it.
Come on coward, do it, do it. Come on......try it here.
wishy washy wishy washy
Let me guess. The Muzzie Bros. are all big animal rights activists and they were PO'd at Stevens for wearing a leather belt and shoes?
Maybe they saw the trailer for “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Bush’s fault.
Breitbart already uncovered the truth on this show of incompetence. The Obama admin outsourced the security of the ambassador in a volatile region to a team of Welsh mercenaries called Blue Mountain, who were ordered to carry no live ammunition. The blood is on your hands, Mr. President.
Carney is recognizing that there is a life that he has to live after Obama loses. He also probably recognizes that his slanted words will most likely affect his grand-kids. Maybe he is having second thoughts about his support and defense of the chief clown?
Question for Carney, “do you have even a shred of self-respect?”
They’ve walked it back from “proximate cause” to “precipitating cause”. Weasel words from weasels.
So they were shooting first and asking questions later when they blamed it on the video. If they wanted to wait until the facts were in they should have said they didn’t know the cause yet.
ME protests: the hardline 'tele-Islamist' who brought anti-Islam film to Muslim world's attention...but nobody had paid attention to its crude libels against the Prophet Mohammed until Mr Abdullah's show broadcast clips from it last weekend,... - Sept. 8-9
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Egypt intelligence warns (on Sept 4th) of attacks on Israel, US embassies
Congress was warned about Libya last month
Libyan president: 'No doubt' attack 'preplanned' (Magariaf on Face the Nation)
"It was planned, definitely. It was planned by foreigners, by people who entered the country a few months ago. And they were planning this criminal act since their arrival," Magariaf said.
No demonstration before attack on US Consulate, source says
"The intelligence source said no protests were happening before the attackers struck at about 9:35 p.m. local time last Tuesday. The account backs up claims by a purported Libyan security guard who told McClatchy Newspapers late last week that the area was quiet before the attack."
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(Ambassador) RICE: -- "was a result, a direct result of a heinous and offensive video that was widely disseminated, that the US government had nothing to do with,..."
U.S. denies premeditation report
"The Obama administration is flatly denying a blaring British newspaper report that the U.S. diplomats in Libya were killed as a result of a “continuing security breach,” and that “credible information” about possible attacks had been ignored. A U.S. official told POLITICO: “There's no intelligence indicating that the attack in Benghazi was premeditated.”"
No doubt about it. There is no intelligence in the 0bama administration.
Neglect, Lies, and Videotape.
The Republican Congress is going to help obama get the Blind Sheik out of prison and back to Egypt.
Screwing those who voted for them is their raison d’être.
Bastards!
Blah blah...blah blah blah...blah blah...
Carney continued to claim that "we do not have any indication at this point of premeditation or pre-planned attacks," but went on to say: "we're not making declarations ahead of the facts here."
I guess the repeated assertions of Libyan government officials don't count as "any indication" whatsoever.
It's a sad state of affairs when the Libyan government spokesman is more credible than the White House spokesman.
We ought to be burning their embassies here.
If they can do this on a spontaneous basis then we’re going to have serious problems.Otherwise this was in the works for weeks,most likely the embassy in Libya had glaring security problems that should have but weren’t addressed.
I just hope they find those who did it,track them down and execute them.It is nicer when the bad guys don’t get a chance to do stuff like that again.
I still can’t get over the whole idea that anyone believes Susan Rice had any sort of intelligence briefing.
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