Obama Administration Backtracks – Finally Admits Benghazi Strike Was “Deliberate and Organized”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, September 29, 2012, 9:57 AM
The Obama Administration issued a statement on Friday saying it now believes the 9-11 consulate attack was a “deliberate and organized terrorist attack.” The administration knew the Benghazi strike was a terrorist attack 24 hours after the attack but kept this information from the public.
Within hours of the 9-11 Benghazi Consulate attacks the Obama Administration knew that it was the work of Al-Qaeda. For days the administration told reporters that the consulate attack was related to an offensive YouTube. Yet at the same time the administration was privately circulating a document with a very different opinion on the murderous attack.
Catherine Herridge from FOX News reported:
“There was this private narrative you see in the intelligence community where they separate what happened in Libya from this YouTube clip and then you have this public narrative that you have from this administration. And I got a hold of this Homeland Security Assessment. It talks about the scope of the demonstrations in the first week after 9-11 and what’s interesting to me is that this intelligence document makes no mention of the YouTube clip. So again, that’s sort of the private narrative but the public narrative from this administration has been that the clip has really prompted the assault not only in Libya but elsewhere in the Middle East.”
Reuters reported:
The top U.S. intelligence authority issued an unusual public statement on Friday declaring it now believed the September 11 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, was a “deliberate and organized terrorist attack.”
The statement by the office of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledged that it represented a change in the U.S. intelligence assessment of how and why the attack happened. During the attack on two U.S. government compounds in the eastern Libyan city, four U.S. personnel, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed.
Shawn Turner, spokesman for Clapper’s office, said that in the immediate aftermath of the attack, U.S. agencies came to the view that the Benghazi attack had begun spontaneously after protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo against a short film made in California lampooning the Prophet Mohammad.
Turner said that as U.S. intelligence subsequently learned more about the attack, “we revised our initial assessment to reflect new information indicating that it was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by extremists.”
He said it remained “unclear” if any individual or specific group commanded the attack. U.S. agencies nonetheless believe that some of the militants involved in the attack were “linked to groups affiliated with, or sympathetic to al-Qaida.”
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JenBee commented:
Incompetent. Unqualified. AMATEURISH. Out in November.
Granny commented:
How many times are they going to change their story? They’ve already backtracked and admitted, then Obama went in front of the UN and blamed the video – AGAIN. Now they’re backtracking yet one more time.
I have to tell you, the outright lies and coverups and tall tales and total disorganization and utter failure to provide even the most minimal of even standard protections for our consulate and ambassador REALLY make me question just who exactly was behind this – and what roll the White House might have had.
They’re acting FAR too guilty to be innocent.
Ghost commented:
Duh!
Good Morning, Mr. Praaziden
Sanmon commented:
By the administration marketing and publicizing a video that no one knew about. Obama caused much of the demonstration in the Muslim world.
Gandalf commented:
The difference with Watergate? With Watergate nobody died.
Spider commented:
I’m sitting in my den and I made that conclusion 5 minutes after I heard about the incident.
This is similar to Fast and Furious. They dreamed up some complex set of circumstances to take away our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms – except the law of unintended consequences took over, and the means to evil ends blew up in their faces.
Here they were taking aim at the 1st amendment, an attempt to win Islamic hearts and minds, by offering up some third rate video as a reason to restrict free speech. But Al Qaeda was not in on the scheme so this also blew up in their faces.
Suggestion: Defend the constitution, don’t try to destroy it.
Granny commented:
#5 September 29, 2012 at 10:17 am
Sanmon commented:
By the administration marketing and publicizing a video that no one knew about. Obama caused much of the demonstration in the Muslim world.
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They may, in fact, have been in on making the video. Apparently the “filmmaker”, who goes by a number of aliases, is/was working as an agent for the US government. LOL.
Flintstone F. commented:
Bullcrap!
Hillary knew, Obama knew, they scrubbed the state department website and they made a public statement initially, that was a reaction to a terrorist attack.
They’re going to blame this on bad I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E., and not the WH lie told for two weeks.
What kind of intelligence do you need to think it might be a good idea to have marines at the embassy on the anniversary of 9/11, since there were warnings of an attack?
This is Obama and Clinton’s failure. Christopher Stevens was sacrificed for Obama’s love of islam and Clinton’s ignorance of the dangers in the world. They all need to go.
38 days.
Larkin commented:
This admission will in no way deter the left’s righteous cause of destroying the First Amendment and the rest of the US constitution.
It’s a very inconvenient document.
Flintstone F. commented:
#3 Granny
Remember Obamacare going through? It’s not a tax, it’s a tax, it’s not a tax…
They’ll say whatever they have to say whenever they have to say it.
Obama does this regularly. He did it with NAFTA, talking out of both sides of his mouth from one day to the next based on who he was talking to.
Sandy commented:
Gee does this mean they will let the film maker out of Jail?
chuck in st paul commented:
nothing gets past this Administration. The have Top Men on it. Top. Men.
valerie commented:
I remember asking a person who pretended to a position in a sophisticated corporate setting a direct question about lying, and she said ” there are larger issues involved.” After that, she refused to elaborate.
This administration may have felt that it had larger issues, namely making the point that it would bend over backward to be “fair” to its Islamist “allies,” than merely telling the truth as they knew it best at the time to the American people.
This administration has a history of sacrificing real, warm, living human beings to “larger issues.”
No real Liberal approves of sacrificing an individual’s life to make a political point.
Sandy commented:
Its a sad day when we have to depend on CNN to find the Ambassador’s diary because the FBI hasn’t made it to the scene of the crime.
Robert commented:
This allows Obama’s court eunuchs in the media to ignore the misdirection and lies the administration presented to the American people, just as they have ignored the decline of America during Obama’s reign.
Never fear. The media will once again rise to its role as government watchdog when Romney is elected president, as if it had been all along.
Patty commented:
OT
Military heroes’ Social Security numbers posted online
The Social Security numbers of some of the nation’s most highly decorated Army war heroes from Iraq and Afghanistan were posted this week by a civilian contractor on a publicly available website.
The Army has launched an investigation to find out how the privacy of its heroes was violated.
Of more than 500 names and profiles on the site, 31 contain Social Security numbers. Six are Medal of Honor recipients, two of whom are alive. There are also Social Security numbers for 25 soldiers who earned the Distinguished Service Cross, 22 of whom are living.
Army spokesman George Wright told The Washington Times on Friday the service has launched an investigation to determine how the Army data was handled. He said the contractor was contacted and told to remove the site.
“We take this matter seriously,” Mr. Wright said.
By Friday evening, The Times could still access the Web address for the list of heroes, their accomplishments in battle, and, in 31 cases, the Social Security numbers.[......................]
Contracted by The Times and shown the data, Sgt. Petry said he immediately contracted Army Special Operations Command.
“It’s disappointing. You always have the fear of fraud,” he said. “The bigger question is how did they get it and is the person who released it being held responsible.”
Doug Sterner, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, has been urging the Pentagon to set up a database of citations for valor in the war on terror. He is the curator of the Hall of Valor website on MilitaryTimes.com.
What struck Mr. Sterner is how complete the database is. “It’s an impressive piece of work,” he told The Times. “This is the single most complete and accurate compilation of Army awards I have found since World War II.”
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The Army Times reported the site was created by an employee of Brightline Interactive, which is helping the Army’s public affairs office build a “Gallery of Heroes” to be displayed at conventions.
Before the Army Times story was posted, The Washington Times contacted Brightline. A man who identified himself as the chief operating officer denied any knowledge of the website and suggested it was from another company.
Read more: Military heroes’ Social Security numbers posted online – Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/28/military-heroes-id-numbers-posted-online/?page=2#ixzz27sWHzRs1
The site was discovered by a veteran doing research on war heroes.[……………}
Patty commented:
Krauthammer Tells ‘Liberal Pals’ on PBS ‘…
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer gave quite a scolding Friday to his fellow panelists on PBS’s Inside Washington. During a discussion about the murder of our ambassador in Libya, Krauthammer said, “I just want to respond to my liberal pals over here. I can’t believe you guys are covering for the administration on the Susan Rice thing when they themselves said five days later it was obviously a terror attack” (video follows with transcript and commentary): Krauthammer Scolds ‘Liberal Pals’ on PBS: ‘I Can’t Believe You’re Covering for the Administration’ on Libya CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I just want to respond to my…
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/09/29/krauthammer-tells-liberal-pals-pbs-i-can-t-believe-youre-covering-adm
Candy commented:
So the ‘so-called’ film maker will still be in prison for violating parole?
BTW, what happened to the ‘Brits’ who were guarding the ambassador?
Where are their bodies?
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
As long as the media continues to carry out its job duties faithfully as the Democrat Party’s propaganda arm, nothing is going to happen to the current administration to atone for all of its dishonesty, its missteps, its mistakes, and worst of all, its treasonous behavior.
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