Posted on 09/19/2012 11:00:30 AM PDT by tapatio
The Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was in fact "a terrorist attack" and the U.S. government has indications that members of al Qaeda were directly involved, a top Obama administration official said Wednesday morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecable.foreignpolicy.com ...
Committee ranking Republican Susan Collins (R-ME) declared at the hearing that she believes the attacks were planned well in advance and she referenced information she had received from U.S. intelligence officials behind closed doors.
"First, I will tell you that based on the briefings I have had, I've come to the opposite conclusion and agree with the president of Libya that this was a premeditated, planned attack that was associated with the date of 9/11, the anniversary of 9/11," she said. "I just don't think that people come to protests equipped with RPGs and other heavy weapons. And the reports of complicity -- and they are many -- with the Libyan guards who were assigned to guard the consulate also suggest to me that this was premeditated."
DUH post of the day.
Walk it back. Walk that dog back.
Captain Obvious.
I no longer believe one ****ing word the government of this country says.
It may as well be speaking sand script.
Lying pieces of ****.
Which may be our currency in the near future.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Thanks tapatio for this topic, and thanks Ernest for this other one (now locked) and the ping thereto:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2933409/posts
and E for this link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2933156/posts
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