Sunday, October 14, 2012

Politicizing Benghazi

Mark Styen (read his column about the Obama Administration's politicization of the terrorist attack in Benghazi here) has evidence that the intelligence received by the White House never indicated that a video have anything to do with the attack.  This question and answer from the weekly briefing by the State Department highly suggests that the claims about the video emanated directly from the White House instead:

OPERATOR: The next question is from the line of Brad Klapper with AP. Please, go ahead. 
QUESTION: Hi, yes. You described several incidents you had with groups of men, armed men. What in all of these events that you’ve described led officials to believe for the first several days that this was prompted by protests against the video? 
SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL TWO: That is a question that you would have to ask others. That was not our conclusion. I’m not saying that we had a conclusion, but we outlined what happened. The Ambassador walked guests out around 8:30 or so, there was no one on the street at approximately 9:40, then there was the noise and then we saw on the cameras the – a large number of armed men assaulting the compound.

I wonder where this will be at by the third presidential debate.

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