Posted on 05/06/2014 1:34:38 PM PDT by xzins
Every day seems to bring another revelation that highlights the duplicity of the Obama administration in reporting to the nation on what went wrong in Benghazi.
As we’ve already documented, the talking points for Susan Rice’s serial prevarications on the Sunday morning shows on September 16, 2012 were coordinated by Ben Rhodes. From what we know now, there was at no point at which anyone in the US government thought the attack on the Benghazi consulate was caused by a the internet video Innocence of Muslims. To the contrary, immediately everyone knew it was a planned and coordinated attack.
Regardless of the fact, the Ben Rhodes email establishes the lie about the internet video as the main theme of all government responses and Jay Carney persists in saying this memo reflected their best information at the time.
In a story from Breitbart.com, we have better insights into what the administration knew, and, to quote someone famous, when they knew it.
On September 12, 2012, the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce had a meeting. The keynote speaker was scheduled to be CBS Evening News anchor, Scott Pelley. Pelley, as it turned out, could not make the engagement and was replaced by CBS News president David Rhodes. By coincidence, David’s brother, Ben, was at that very moment cobbling together the guiding lie for the administration. (This, of course, goes a long way towards explaining why CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson found little interest in her investigative pieces on the Obama administration.)
Rhodes gives and address and at 25:00 the first question is asked, it concerns the elections. At 25:26 Rhodes segues to how the Benghazi attack may affect campaign news coverage.
“Now we don’t think that’s going to last, as far as it being about the people we lost and the unfolding situation which is pretty remarkable in our life time. Our government thinks that, you know, there’s a really good chance this was not just a spontaneous mob reaction to what some thought was an offensive film but actually a coordinated effort timed to the 9/11 anniversary.”
Who do we think told Rhodes what the government was thinking? My bet is on the guy who was writing the memo blaming a “spontaneous mob reaction.” Regardless it demonstrates that on the day after the attack the dominant theory was that the attack was a coordinated assault timed to commemorate 9/11. In other words, the truth.
As this story unfolds we will find several moving parts:
1. Hillary Clinton was involved in turning down Ambassador Chris Stevens’ request for more security for our diplomatic facilities in Libya.
2. The extra security was declined because it was essential for the Administrations’s narrative that Libya be seen as being secure.
3. When the crap hit the fan on September 11, Hillary recognized the danger a coordinated al Qaeda attack presented to Obama’s re-election and the danger it represented to her 2016 presidential ambitions.
4. She resorted to her best friend to save her: THE BIG LIE.
5. The press release issued by the State Department around 11pm EDT on September 11 locked in the story of the internet video even though Hillary knew at that time it was a lie.
6. During the week leading up to Susan Rice’s television appearances on September 16, Ben Rhodes, with the assistance of Jay Carney, David Plouffe, and others, drafted a set of talking points which were patently false. The purpose being to freeze interest in investigating Benghazi until after the election in less than two months.
Hopefully, Trey Gowdy will provide Hillary Clinton with the answer to the question she asked of the Congress:
I believe Egypt denied that the events in Egypt were caused by the video. I remember hearing that the other. I don’t have a source on it.
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I doubt that even Laz would want to go there~!
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."
Source: Slain ambassador Stevens said he was on al Qaeda list
WASHINGTON - In the months leading up to his death, Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, worried about constant security threats in Benghazi and mentioned that his name was on an al Qaeda hit list, a source familiar with his thinking told CNN.
Report: Never an Anti-American Protest in Benghazi, Only a Planned Attack (CBS Video Report)
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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.”"
Obama and Hillary Apologize for Free Speech on Pakistani TV (taxpayer-funded ads)
No doubt about it. There is no intelligence in the 0bama administration.
No doubt about it.
Maybe the Democrats should run Candy instead of Hillary
Originally, the press assumed the embassy was referring to a different video entirely- one made by someone else.
You just don’t whip out artillery at a moments notice. They had sophisticated enough equipment to detect when one of the dead special ops painted them. Are these bought at markets..?
And the incoming mortar fire to the CISA annex was deadly accurate.
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