Obama Administration Knew About Benghazi Within Hours, Still Chose To Fabricate Story

[Obama 2012 1,714]

tsk tsk tsk!

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/24/us/libya-benghazi-e-mails/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Washington (CNN) -- Two hours after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, the White House, the State Department and the FBI were told that an Islamist group had claimed credit, government e-mails obtained by CNN show.

One of the e-mails -- sent from a State Department address to various government agencies -- specifically identifies Ansar al-Sharia as claiming responsibility for the attack on its Facebook page and on Twitter.

The e-mails raise further questions about the seeming confusion on the part of the Obama administration to determine the nature of the September attack and those who planned it.

The attack left U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead.

The day after it took place, President Barack Obama labeled the incident an "act of terror."

But in the days following the attack, White House spokesman Jay Carney maintained there was no evidence suggesting the attack was "planned or imminent."

The administration also suggested that an anti-Muslim video produced in the United States likely fueled a spontaneous demonstration in Benghazi as it had in Cairo, where the U.S. Embassy also was attacked.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland and Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, all cited the video as a motivating factor in the attack.

On September 13, a senior U.S. official told CNN that the violence in Libya was not the work of "an innocent mob."

"The video or 9/11 made a handy excuse and could be fortuitous from their perspective, but this was a clearly planned military-type attack," the official said.

But it wasn't until September 19 that the administration began to call the attack the work of terrorists.

The e-mails provide additional insight into the Benghazi attack.

The first one, sent at 4:05 p.m. ET, or 10:05 p.m. in Libya, describes a diplomatic mission under attack.

"Approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well," the e-mail says. Stevens and four other mission staff are in the compound safe haven, it added.

Less than an hour later at 4:54 p.m. ET, another e-mail reports "firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi has stopped and the compound has been cleared." It says a search was underway for consulate personnel.

The final e-mail, from 6:07 p.m., notes the claim of responsibility for the attack.

The subject line reads: "Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack."

The email says: "Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli.

The Facebook claim of involvement was subsequently denied by the group at a news conference in the following days, but not very convincingly.

"We are saluting our people for this zeal in protecting their religion, to grant victory to the prophet," a spokesman for Ansar al-Sharia said at the time. "The response has to be firm."

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Hard to believe how incredibly boring this 'controversy' is. Might be time to move along.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Hard to believe how incredibly boring this 'controversy' is. Might be time to move along.

oh yeah, outright lying to the American people is a non-controversy, yup...

Amazing how pathetic people in the tank for Obama are. The fact that you find it acceptable for them to outright lie to the American people is sad. Truly shows the integrity of the American left is in the toilet.

[Harsh_77 716]

Hard to believe how incredibly boring this 'controversy' is. Might be time to move along.

American Diplomat gets killed and its time to move on.... nice.

[SMOKE 1,426]

Hard to believe how incredibly boring this 'controversy' is. Might be time to move along.

i'm sure the families of the murdered agree.

[sly_wolf 199]

oh yeah, outright lying to the American people is a non-controversy, yup...

Amazing how pathetic people in the tank for Obama are. The fact that you find it acceptable for them to outright lie to the American people is sad. Truly shows the integrity of the American left is in the toilet.

This is peanuts compared to the lies that got us into Iraq. Many many more lives lost.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

This whole story is nonsense. I am sure they had lots of information all conflicting one another. Some of it was true, some of it was fake. They had to sift through it to find which parts were right. Militant groups often claim responsibility for stuff they didn't do, but WISHED they did. It would be imprudent to accept a terrorist group's claims as fact before independently verifying them. Don't you agree?

[^_^ 5,021]

This whole story is nonsense. I am sure they had lots of information all conflicting one another. Some of it was true, some of it was fake. They had to sift through it to find which parts were right. Militant groups often claim responsibility for stuff they didn't do, but WISHED they did. It would be imprudent to accept a terrorist group's claims as fact before independently verifying them. Don't you agree?

NO! OBAMA IS KENYAN ANTICHRIST AND HE WONT KISS BIBI'S RING! I HATE HIM!

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

This is peanuts compared to the lies that got us into Iraq. Many many more lives lost.

I love it when you all do that. Absolutely no defense, so you whip out the ol' well someone else did something wrong so it's not so bad. So if I beat my neighbor into a coma, it's ok because someone else beat their neighbor to death. Liberal Logic.

So if Obama wins who you all going to blame in 6 years or 8.

[kytwell 179]

Clinton was impeached for lying/misleading. Just saying...

I know Clinton did it under oath

Edited October 24, 2012 by kytwell

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Can't be that big of a deal. Mitt Romney fully endorsed the administration's national security policy on Monday night.

[sly_wolf 199]

I love it when you all do that. Absolutely no defense, so you whip out the ol' well someone else did something wrong so it's not so bad. So if I beat my neighbor into a coma, it's ok because someone else beat their neighbor to death. Liberal Logic.

So if Obama wins who you all going to blame in 6 years or 8.

Ok, so lets pick on the small stuff where nothing has been proven and forget about the really big stuff that has been proven.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Ok, so lets pick on the small stuff where nothing has been proven and forget about the really big stuff that has been proven.

So we can't discuss a current event because of something that happened 10 years ago may have been of a greater magnitude. ?? Once again Liberal logic deifies logic

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

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NO! OBAMA IS KENYAN ANTICHRIST AND HE WONT KISS BIBI'S RING! I HATE HIM!

I know this forum is just a playground for insults and one-upsmanship, but I think that sometimes actually discussing the topic at hand might be useful. It seems to me that sometimes people haven't thought through the issue, and it is my hope that laying out a critical aspect might stop people from jumping to conclusions based on shortsightedness.

Of course there are people that refuse to think through the issue, but I won't make assumptions about who those people are.

[sly_wolf 199]

So we can't discuss a current event because of something that happened 10 years ago may have been of a greater magnitude. ?? Once again Liberal logic deifies logic

No, but I cant say this news stirs any outrage in me. I do however find it very peculiar that there was less outrage over other more significant facts.