something ain’t right, here
The functioning of this outfit is “less than optimal.”
(AP) – The CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within 24 hours of last month’s deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate that there was evidence it was carried out by militants, not a spontaneous mob upset about an American-made video ridiculing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, U.S. officials have told The Associated Press.
I’d like to emphasize this next sentence.
It is unclear who, if anyone, saw the cable outside the CIA at that point and how high up in the agency the information went.
Yet, on Saturday of that week, briefing points sent by the CIA to Congress said “demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault.”
The briefing points, obtained by the AP, added: “There are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations” but did not mention eyewitness accounts that blamed militants alone.
They probably didn’t mention that “eyewitnesses” — people who live there — know exactly who and where “the miscreants” are. Wouldn’t you likely know about a large group of rather cranky militants living in a walled compound in your neighborhood?
Now congressional intelligence committees are demanding documents to show what the spy agencies knew and when, before, during and after the attacks.
WTF.
Hillary Rodham Clinton blamed the “fog of war” for the early conflicting accounts.
To me©, it looks more like the fog of inter-agency squabbling and ‘leeeeders‘ who cannot get along sufficiently to get around to the job at hand.
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Huma Abedin would be a good place to start.
My solution: Send Hillary, Biden, Obama, Rice, the CIA chief, Carney and anyone else that had a comment to Benghazi, without military escort and let them determine what happened.
I’m thinking they’ll fess up within five hours.
After all this time and BS we still haven’t heard who/why they were so sure it was from the movie and not a terrorist attack. Who ever slid that under the table did a good job of hiding it. They are making sure that trying to find the truth is like herding cats. When you catch one they throw a couple more in with more nip. They are doing a good job at appealing to the voters with an attention span of a nat. Over their heads and in one ear and out the other. Early voting??? No voter id??? The “fog of war”? So does that mean we are at war??
The admin is going to try to cliam that the info didn’t get to them, but that’s going to be hard to sell because everybody who was paying attention knew it too.
Oh wait…
‘Anti muzzie video’ ploy is cover up for: (pick one or more)
Arms supply to Muzzie Brotherhood, ala Fast & Furious, Iran Contra
Stop recovery of MANPADs
Swap kidnapped ambassador for Blind Sheik
Utter incompetence
Whatever, something is very, very rotten in
Denmark(pick one or more)Benghazi
the State Department
the White House
Watergate and Iran Contra are nothing compared to whatever the truth is in this mess.
Oh … Ramirez.
The locals not only figured out the most likely group, they quickly protested outside the HQ of the “miscreants” – who, despite being heavily armed, seem to have been shamed into fleeing across the border rather than shooting. the Atlantic Wire had story and pics.
Oh Obammy look what a mess you’ve got us into now.
geezerette– A mess for Romney to inherit?
rickn8or—-Romney Romney he’s our man if Obama can’t do it Romney can. Just picturing ole(d) Harry R.’s face when he has to face Romney — I wonder if he’ll decide to spend more time with his family? Ahhh a girl can dream can’t she?
^^^Doug (6) Thanks for the link. Ramirez nailed it!
They’ve already admitted that people at the State Dept. in Washington DC were watching the attack in REAL TIME. That means that people at the Intel agencies and the Defense Dept. knew of it in minutes. All this bullshit going back and forth is just to cover up that fact.
The real time coverage showed images from security cameras out the compound and you could clearly see that there were no protesters–according to the people that described what they saw.