Obama Administration Had Video All Along Showing There Was No Protest at Benghazi Consulate
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, October 12, 2012, 11:15 PM
For the last month the Obama Administration has misrepresented the 9-11 terror attack in Benghazi that left four Americans dead including the US ambassador to Libya. President Obama and his administration repeated the line that protesters gathered outside the consulate before the deadly attack.
Now we learn that all along the Obama Administration had video of the 9-11 terror attack. And that there was no protest. There was only a terrorist attack.
Eli Lake at The Daily Beast reported:
Video footage from the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, taken the night of the Sept. 11 anniversary attacks, shows an organized group of armed men attacking the compound, according to two U.S. intelligence officials who have seen the footage and are involved in the ongoing investigation. The footage, which was recovered from the site last week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, offers some of the most tangible evidence yet that a military-style assault took place, according to these officials.
The Obama administration has been studying the videos, taken from closed-circuit cameras throughout the Benghazi consulate’s four-building compound, for clues about who was responsible for the attack and how it played out. The two officials tell The Daily Beast that analysts are hoping to decipher the faces of the attackers and match them up with known jihadists.
The videos could also play into an expanding investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that is looking at whether security steps could have been taken that would have saved the life of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans killed that day. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who is one of the Republicans leading the House investigation, says he hasn’t been given the footage.
In addition to the footage from the consulate cameras, the U.S. government is also poring over video taken from an overhead U.S. surveillance drone that arrived for the final hour of the night battle at the consulate compound and nearby annex.
Video from the compound’s cameras debunk the initial line from the Obama administration that there was a protest in front of the consulate on the night of the attacks, according to one of the U.S. intelligence officials who has seen the footage, and a senior Obama administration official familiar with what they show.
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mg4us commented:
Obama lies. . Ambassador dies
MSM lies . . .democracy dies
Obama is a LIAR with contempt in his heart. .p47 from his book Dreams From My Father. . Mama shouted these words when referring to Americans as her people “THESE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE”
Therefore Obama is NOT OUR PRESIDENT
Ryan missed saying the best line: Under Obama Biden our Foreign Policy and US economy is looking like Jimmy Carter II . . on steroids!!!
Patty commented:
And if this doesn’t destroy all their political careers nothing will. Because there are AMERICANS WHO WERE KILLED ON AMERICAN SOIL. This was an attack on 9/11/12 and these American were hung out to dry.
America needs Answers. This isn’t some political game. These are human beings who were taken from us and it never needed to happen. There were cries for help and no one heard them. These Americans are gone and this administration has blood on their hands. I pray for the families, they need JUSTICE. American wants answers and the truth and the blame place on the RIGHT PEOPLE.
donh commented:
Almost have to wonder if Obama and his stealth Muslim Brotherhood agents had a premeditated plan to offer up the Ambassador as a human sacrifice to usher in the restoration of Ottoman Empire Blasphemy Laws …or if they decided after the fact to not let the crisis go to waste.
The video was NOT a manufactured excuse hastily contrived to cover up incompetance. There was a clear effort to exploit the Ambassador’s death to impact ” the future “….a future that belongs to Muhammed where speech deemed offensive to Islam will not be tolerated.
SOS_AMERICA_2012 commented:
DENY THIS!!!! BEFORE BENGHAZI!! REPORT ON THE DANGERS!!! Benghazi mentioned in this reprt from AUGUST, These Bastards dont even read THEIR OWN REPORTS!!!! http://www.kronosadvisory.com/CTTSO_Al_Qaeda_in_Libya_Final_Obtained260912.pdf … … … … …
Opaobie commented:
I may have missed it, but were the cameras broadcasting live to security observers somewhere in Tripoli or back in the USA on the night of the attack, or were they only recording locally at the compound in Benghazi?
If it was only recorded locally and only recovered last week, it’s hard to make the case that the White House or State Department knew there was no protest and that a coordinated attack took place solely based on video evidence that they hadn’t seen yet. They may have known by other means, but not by what is on the videos.
Peggy R commented:
12 in 12!
S. Wolf commented:
O/T but related.
‘In a 200-page report on jihad fundraising, “Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity,” the ACLU argued that “federal law enforcement is engaging in practices that intimidate Muslim donors and create a climate of fear that chills American Muslims’ free and full exercise of their religion.”
In other words, the First Amendment rights of Muslims are more precious than those of the average citizen.
Where is this bias coming from? Muslims.
The ACLU now counts at least eight on its national executive staff alone. In fact, a Muslim runs the ACLU’s Center for Democracy, while another heads its National Security Project.
The irony is not lost on Steve Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
“The ACLU was founded on the basis that there shouldn’t be any blasphemy laws,” said Emerson, who’s airing a new documentary, “Jihad in America: The Grand Deception.” “Yet in the last 10 years, they’ve appointed (to their boards) members of the Muslim Brotherhood who believe in blasphemy laws.”‘
The Islamization Of The ACLU
via The Muslim Takeover of the ACLU
This will be true of anything controlled by leftists, from the WH down. Muslims will infiltrate and take it over. You ain’t seen nothing yet as Hussein says. We the peeps may be up against our own government controlled by Muslims who control the military and nuclear weapons of the U.S., exempt themselves from Obamacare, set up and fund Islamist governments in the ME, etc. Oh, they already are doing that.
Reaganite Republican commented:
WHOAH- this implies the Obama Administration was intentionally misleading!
I think I need a minute to wrap my mind around this lol
Lynno commented:
This is outrageous, to think this administration can come out on national tv and look into the cameras’ and with bold faced lie’s. Obama and Biden should be waving good-by from the helicopter. We the people, 24 more day!!!!
Oliver commented:
why is anyone surprised? there is NOTHING these people do that isn’t related to winning the election. Nothing.
tommy mc donnell commented:
to a marxist everything is political.
Conservative Cookie commented:
The smoking gun is the drone surveillance that was sent to record the battle. What Dept. of Intelligence, and who in that Dept.,authorized this drone to be sent to the consulate at the final hour of the battle? The drone was sent because this battle was happening before their eyes and they were unable to locate and communicate with our Amb. and the other men. National Security Advisors must have been notified about the situation on the ground, as well as, the CIA .The families, of these brave and honorable men, have the right to be told the details of this horrible event. Unlike the mistaken belief of a certain Democract Rep., American citizens do care about the deaths of our fellow Americans serving in harms way overseas.
Highlander commented:
I’m no expert on terrorism or foreign affairs, but on 9/11/01, when I turned on the TV and heard that a jetliner had just hit the World Trade Center on a perfectly clear day, I immediately knew that it was a terrorist attack. I also knew that Osama Bin Laden was the primary suspect. It’s virtually impossible for a commercial airliner to hit a building like that in broad daylight, and if you were paying any attention at all, Bin Laden’s name and threats of terrorism had been in the news for months. Any idiot could put two and two together and figure out what had happened …
On September 11th of this year, when I heard about this attack in Benghazi, I was just as certain that it was a terrorist attack, and that Al Qaeda was involved. You don’t have to be an expert in these things to realize that an armed attack on an American embassy is no spontaneous incident, and the fact that it occurred on 9/11 made it painfully obvious that it was a terrorist act.
The Obama administration’s attempt to conceal the facts and distort the truth about this attack in Benghazi is a major insult to our intelligence. In fact, I would go a step further and and propose that it amounts to treason. I doubt that anyone is going to call Obama out on this because the media has his back, and the Senate wouldn’t impeach him if he was stealing babies and eating them, but I certainly hope that I’m not the only one who’s insulted by this charade. If this doesn’t motivate the fence-sitters in this country to rise up and vote this administration out of office, I don’t know what will …..
Tricky Dick commented:
Everything about Obama is a lie.He renounced his U.S. citizeshipp in Malayasia. His school fung was paid for bu the Saudis. His records are sealed. He didn’t much of anything but lay around and smoke weed and snort cocaine. The books supposdly written by him ar5e fakes. Composite girlfriends??? Really? How much more of it is down right lies. Now the tapes turn of his racist rants in Jeremiah Wrights church. Nothing about Obama is real. It’s a house of cards and if the Main Stream Media would do their jobs it will all come tumbling down.
Granny commented:
#16 Highlander – I couldn’t agree with you more.
It isn’t fence sitters that worry me. Frankly, I do not know a single fence sitter. I have been very surprised this time around by a couple of different things
1. A couple of weeks back I had the first public political discussion I have ever had – and with a perfect stranger. At the laundrymat no less. Went in to do laundry and found the TV off, asked the guy sitting there if they had broken the TV and he said No, he just couldn’t stand watching the crap on MSNBC, that it was all lies. I live in Vermont, which you might have noticed Real Clear Politics paints a deep, dark blue. I’m not so sure about that . . . in fact, I suspect we should at least be purple and would not be knocked over with a feather if Romney took the state this go round.
2. Unlike ever before about anything, my Facebook page is about two things, just two: a new game and the presidential election. People are coming out of the woodwork and they are anti-Obama at least 10:1. I can’t recall ever having seen much of anything about politics on my page – and I’ve well over 1000 FB “friends.”
Those few Obama supporters, though – nothing seems to faze them. Black is white, up is down, things like Benghazi go right over their heads. I had one girl try to tell me that Representative Boehner is the “head of Congress” – she didn’t know that Congress has two houses and the Democrats control one of them. (I suspect that is where the insistence of so many Obots that the Republicans have total control of Congress comes in – they do not know that there are two parts to Congress. Seriously.) This girl, BTW, did know about Benghazi. That is how the whole Congress discussion came into the picture. She claimed that Benghazi was entirely the Republicans fault because they controlled Congress and didn’t give the State department money for security at Benghazi.
I had another woman tell me that the government was a non-profit organization. She was horribly offended when I informed her that you have to be incorporated and file paperwork with the IRS to be a non-profit organization. And then there are the loons who post things like a picture of Mitt Romney with something like “Lies, Lies, Lies” written on it. When you ask them to give a specific instance of an outright lie their only reply is “he just does!”
I am just horrified at the apparent total lack of knowledge even about the basic structure of our government. I’ve got truck drivers quoting the Constitution to supposedly “educated” people who do not know that Congress consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
I’ll say one thing – this election season has made me see those old laws where you had to pass a test in order to vote in a new light. Some of these people really shouldn’t be allowed out to vote for dog catcher.
Don’t EVEN let me get started on their arguments against Voter ID!
squeaky commented:
[Talk about chickens coming home to roost. Talk about the Mother of All Fiascos. It's the revenge of Osama bin Laden from the bottom of the ocean, and the message is plain: al-Qaeda is very much alive, and America is a paper tiger.] bin laden observed the U.S. to be paper tigers in his 1996 declaration of war. a lot of people had to die to correct that perception. now here we are – back at square one. [Instead of U.S. Marines to guard the embassies with machine guns those State Department moneys went to Green Chevy Volts.
To show them we mean no harm. How they must be laughing at us.] gm may be alive [barely] but at what cost? yo joe riddle me this……
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2012/10/benghazi_osamas_revenge_on_obama.html
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