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NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Slams President Obama On Egypt Statements. As reporter talks, in the background, Egyptians gather at the U.S. Embassy and begin throwing rocks.

From aWhiteHouse official: "The President was informed of the Libya situation by NSA Donilon yesterday afternoon as he started his weekly meeting with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The President was updated on both incidents several times throughout the evening and again this morning...The President was notified last night that Ambassador Stevens was unaccounted for and then notified again this morning about his tragic death."

Today, speaking about the despicable and stomach-wrenching attacks by Islamists on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and our embassy in Cairo, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked: “How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction?” That single line is the most damning indictment of Hillary Clinton’s State Department that could ever be penned. It demonstrates her complete lack of knowledge about the region, her failure to anticipate security threats, and worst of all, her willful ignorance about the Islamists that she and President Obama trusted to take over Libya and...

One staffer at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was responsible for the statement and tweets Tuesday that have become grist for the presidential campaign, and that staffer ignored explicit State Department instructions not to issue the statement, one U.S. official close to the issue told The Cable. Two additional administration officials confirmed the details of this account when contacted late Wednesday by The Cable. The statement, issued as a press release on the U.S. Embassy website, has been attacked by Republican challenger Mitt Romney, lawmakers, and conservatives around the country as an inappropriate "apology" and a failure to stand up...

Unbelievable. Barack Obama called Libyan President Mohamed Yusuf al-Magariaf today to thank him for his support. This is the day after US Ambassador Stevens was murdered at the consulate. And, the Islamist killers may have been tipped off by elements within Libya’s security forces. On 9-11, radical Islamists attacked the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya with rocket propelled grenades and machine gun fire. They murdered US Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Islamists dragged the dead body of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens from the consulate after he was murdered. The radical Islamists attacked the embassy with rocket propelled grenades and machine gun fire.

n a stunning admission a media currently obsessed with manufacturing a gaffe for Romney can hardly bring itself to report, President Obama made a tacit admission yesterday that he has lost Egypt as an American ally: President Obama says the U.S. would no longer consider the Egyptian government an ally...

Drudge highlights part of the story that the LA Times, of course, does not. The president was updated throughout the evening, and notified late Tuesday that Stevens was unaccounted for. Obama learned Wednesday that Stevens was confirmed dead Wednesday morning, the official said. Man needs his rest. He's in Vegas right now. You can't do Vegas right if you're short of sleep. By the way, the media is all dutifully reporting the Obama line: That while he is jetting his ass off to Las Vegas, "it's not a day of politics as usual" (via Mark Knoller) and that his Political...

In an exclusive @barackobama tells @jdbalart “I don’t think that we would consider (Egypt) an ally” #msnbc2012 — Anthony Terrell (@AnthonyNBCNews) September 13, 2012

I tried to pay attention to Obama's remarks on the murder of our ambassador and staff in LIbya. Did I miss his comments on the same day attack on our embassy in Cairo and the raising of the al Qaeda flag?