"The Video Responsible
Was Of My Speech in Cairo.
Death to America!"
Posted on 10/31/2015 3:25:36 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Michael Morell, former deputy director and acting director of the CIA, disputes former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s assertion that bad intelligence led her to blame the attack on the diplomatic facilities in Benghazi was a result of a You Tube video that ridiculed Islam.
In Morell’s 2015 book The Great War of Our Time, he writes that while the CIA knew “the demonstration and violence in Cairo were sparked by people upset over a YouTube video,†intelligence “analysts never said the video was a factor in the Benghazi attacks.†(p. 205-206)
Clinton told the Libyan President on the night of the attacks that “Ansar as-Sharia [sic] is claiming responsibility.†However, Clinton did not mention the video and Ansar al-Sharia’s senior leader in Benghazi, Ahmed Abu Khatallah, is the only person who was arrested for the attacks.
Clinton also sent an e-mail on the night of the attacks to her daughter Chelsea telling her that attacks were done by an “Al Qaeda-like group.†The e-mail did not reference the YouTube video.
One day after the attack, the Egyptian Prime Minister said the incident “had nothing to do with the film. It was a planed attack–not a protest…Based on the information we saw today we believe the group that claimed responsibility for this was affiliated with al Qaeda.â€
Clinton, however, made public statements that were vastly different from private remarks about the attack. On the night of the attack, the State Department sent out a statement of Clinton’s where she blamed the attack on “inflammatory material posted on the internet.â€
Clinton made a similar public statement the day after the attack.
“Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior, along with the protest that took place at our Embassy in Cairo yesterday, as a response to inflammatory material posted on the internet.â€
Secretary Clinton continued to blame the video with the attack in Benghazi during public remarks two and three days after the attacks. These statements happened at a transfer of remains ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base with family members of the victims present.
However, on the day the remains of the four Americans killed were brought to Andrews, a State Department official at the Embassy in Tripoli wrote an e-mail to colleagues in Washington saying:
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the series of events in Benghazi was much more terrorist attack than a protest which escalated into violence,†and urging them to “be cautious in our local messaging with regard to the inflammatory film trailer†because “the films [sic] not as explosive of an issue here as it appears to be in other countries…Relatively few [Libyans] have even mentioned the inflammatory video.â€
The Benghazi Select Committee released the e-mail in full on Saturday for the first time with some redactions:
From: [redacted]
To: [redacted]
Subject: messaging on the attacks in Libya
Date: Friday, September 14, 2012 6:43:39 AM
Colleagues, I mentioned to [redacted] this morning, and want to share with all of you, our view at Embassy Tripoli that we must be cautious in our local messaging with regard to the inflammatory film trailer, adapting it to Libyan conditions. Our monitoring of the Libyan media and conversations with Libyans suggest that the films not as explosive of an issue here as it appears to be in other countries in the region.
The overwhelming majority of the FB comments and tweets we’ve received from Libyans since the Ambassador’s death have expressed deep sympathy, sorrow, and regret. They have expressed anger at the attackers, and emphasized that this attack does not represent Libyans or Islam. Relatively few have even mentioned the inflammatory video. So if we post messaging about the video specifically, we may draw unwanted attention to it. And it is becoming increasingly clear that the series of events in Benghazi was much more terrorist attack than a protest which escalated into violence. It is our opinion that in our messaging, we want to distinguish, not conflate, the events in other countries with this well-planned attack by militant extremists. I have discussed this with [redacted] and he shares PAS’s view.
Additionally, Morrell reveals in his book that CIA analysts “complet[ed] their first full report on what happened†and provided it to “senior policy-makers and to Congress on the morning of September 13.â€
He writes, “The September 13 piece – the first piece to go beyond a simple factual update – said four things. First, that the assault on the TMF [Temporary Mission Facility in Benghazi] had been a spontaneous event that evolved from a protest outside the TMF. Second, that the protest and subsequent attack had been motivated by what had happened in Cairo earlier in the day (there was no mention in the piece of the YouTube video defaming the Prophet Muhammad).â€
Morrell’s assertion is backed up by news reports revealed on October 2012. According to The Guardian, the CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within 24 hours of the attack that there was an indication it was carried out by terrorists, not a spontaneous mob angry about a You Tube video mocking the Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
When asked at last week’s Benghazi Committee hearing why she blamed the You Tube video when she knew very well it was not the cause of the attack, Clinton proclaimed, she “needed to be talking about the video.â€
“None of us can speak to the individual motivations of those terrorists who overran our compound and who attacked our CIA annex. There were probably a number of different motivations,†she said, adding that the intelligence community “took the lead†in analyzing the information at the time.
“We also knew, congressman, because my responsibility was what was happening throughout the region, I needed to be talking about the video, because I needed to put other governments and other people on notice that we were not going to let them get away with attacking us, as they did in Tunis, as they did in Khartoum,†she said.
Did the witch allow Stevens and company to die so there would be no contradiction to the video lie and their statements would bring other hidden garbage and the arming of Islamic terrorists to the forefront. We’ll never know.
Problem is - Obama said the attack was caused by the video at least six times two weeks after it happened while speaking at the UN - at least Hillary lied only to the families of the dead - Obama lied to the world about it, and thinks the people are stupid to figure it out.....
Now it is just business as usual on the Democrat side of the aisle. Whether it is the public, the media, or the candidate it is all the same - a ho-hum and a pass.
"The Video Responsible
Was Of My Speech in Cairo.
Death to America!"
What difference (does the truth) make?
In 2012, the Democrat Party, aided and abetted by the Republican Party and the mainstream media perfected the election stealing process. The Democrats have corrupted the election process to where it is no longer relevant.
Agree 100%
The objectives:
1. Recycle the arsenal of the just overthrown Khadaffi over to Syria, creating another new regime beholden to Obama and Hillary and the biz interests of her allies. Since they could circumvent the need for taxpayer funding, consultation with Congress could be minimized.
2. Swap the Blind Sheik for Chris Stevens right before the election, making Obama and Hillary look diplomatic geniuses and friends of the new type of leaders taking hold in the Middle East. They remembered the glow on newly-elected Reagan after the return on of American hostages in Tehran, and wanted to replicate that.
Neither Trump nor anyone else will crush her. She exists in a crush-proof bubble with the other select political elites who will not allow any of their own to go down. It is a precedent they will not allow to be set
“I bet the Obama administration got the video riots started to support their lie. Hillary lied, people died.”
I have often wondered how they managed to know about the video and have it ready to go so quickly, with all the traffic on You-Tube.
Which raises the question of how many will die to get Hillary elected................
...and then there’s that...
One of the “fact-checkers” recently claimed that Hillary herself, never blamed it on the video.
Official statements from her in writing and the comments by the victims families after she lied to their faces don’t count
Somebody really needs to tell the Washington Post editorial board about this...
If the rioting had anything to do with the video, it was only after Barry and Hill went on tv and told the world about that video. As far as the attack on the Benghazi CIA compound, the truth will never be told officially. That’s cuz some of our leaders would deserve public execution after their fair trial for treason.
YES!
GO Mr. Donald Trump!!
The apologies for the video started long before there was any attack in Benghazi.
The Cairo embassy tweeted it's first apology for the "video" early in the morning on Sept. 11th 2012 many hours before the attack in Benghazi. Even before the protests in Cairo.
0bama and Hillary are certainly responsible for the deaths in injuries in Pakistan.
Obama and Hillary Apologize for Free Speech on Pakistani TV (taxpayer-funded ads) Sept. 20, 2012
Which immediately resulted in this...
Pakistan: 17 killed in anti-Islam film protests Sept. 21, 2012
0bama then went to the UN and re-inflamed the Muslim world once again over the manufactured offense "Innocence of Muslims."
U.S. President Speaks to U.N. About YouTube Video
Those apologies validated their anger.
Hillary Clinton Blames Youtube Video for Benghazi Terrorist Attack
Thanks for that info. Appreciate it.
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