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BREAKING: The president knew the truth about Benghazi
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John Manning
19.11.2012, 22:18:4019.11.12
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In a blockbuster report, John Solomon, the former Associated Press
and Post reporter, has ferreted out the president’s daily brief
that informed him within 72 hours of the Sept. 11 attack that the
Benghazi attack was a jihadist operation.
Citing officials directly familiar with the information, Solomon
writes in the Washington Guardian that Obama and other
administration officials were told that “that the attack was likely
carried out by local militia and other armed extremists sympathetic
to al-Qaida in the region.”
He adds:
The details from the CIA and Pentagon assessments of the killing
of Ambassador Chris [Stevens] were far more specific, more detailed
and more current than the unclassified talking points that UN
Ambassador Susan Rice and other officials used five days after the
attack to suggest to Americans that an unruly mob angry over an
anti-Islamic video was to blame, officials said.
Most of the details affirming al-Qaida links were edited or
excluded from the unclassified talking points used by Rice in
appearances on news programs the weekend after the attack,
officials confirmed Friday. Multiple agencies were involved in
excising information, doing so because it revealed sources and
methods, dealt with classified intercepts or involved information
that was not yet fully confirmed, the officials said.
Solomon cautions that there were bits of evidence pointing to a
spontaneous attack but, as Eli Lake of the Daily Beast and others
have reported, he writes: “Among the early evidence cited in the
briefings to the president and other senior officials were
intercepts showing some of the participants were known members or
supporters of Ansar al-Sharia — the al-Qaida-sympathizing militia
in Libya — and the AQIM, which is a direct affiliate of al-Qaida in
northern Africa, the officials said.”
How could the president and his senior staff then have allowed (or
rather, sent) Rice to go out to tell an entirely different tale to
the American people on Sept. 16 on five TV shows?
This report indicates that the president certainly knew that
Benghazi wasn’t a rogue movie review gone bad. He had information
that plainly spelled out what was later confirmed by additional
intelligence. If this information was too confidential to share
with the public, at the very least the president and others should
not have mislead voters.
This is a full-blown scandal, and in light of this information, the
press corps’s slothful indifference to uncovering the truth at
Wednesday’s news conference with Obama is all the more shocking. It
is time for the president to come clean. The scandal has now
enveloped the Oval Office and will define his second term, if not
resolved satisfactorily.
The irony of this is that Rice may well have been used as a patsy,
unaware that she was sent out to spin a misleading tale. My
colleague Dana Milbank recounts Rice’s long-standing inability to
get along with others and to be circumspect in her pronouncements:
It’s true that, in her much-criticized TV performance, she was
reciting talking points given to her by the intelligence agencies.
But that’s the trouble. Rice stuck with her points even though they
had been contradicted by the president of the Libyan National
Assembly, who, on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ just before Rice, said
there was “no doubt” that the attack on Americans in Benghazi “was
preplanned.” Rice rebutted the Libyan official, arguing — falsely,
it turned out — that there was no evidence of such planning. .?.?.
Obama can do better at State than Susan Rice.
Frankly the same could be said of many national security positions
at this point. The American people made their choice in November on
the president, but it now appears they were duped regarding the
real facts concerning Benghazi. What are we going to do about that?
Continues:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/breaking-the-
president-knew-the-truth-about-benghazi/2012/11/16/39aecaf0-3034-
11e2-9f50-0308e1e75445_blog.html
Learn the truth about the Muslim Brotherhood:
http://muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/
Libya: The Real Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CrVUYOooRQ
and Post reporter, has ferreted out the president’s daily brief
that informed him within 72 hours of the Sept. 11 attack that the
Benghazi attack was a jihadist operation.
Citing officials directly familiar with the information, Solomon
writes in the Washington Guardian that Obama and other
administration officials were told that “that the attack was likely
carried out by local militia and other armed extremists sympathetic
to al-Qaida in the region.”
He adds:
The details from the CIA and Pentagon assessments of the killing
of Ambassador Chris [Stevens] were far more specific, more detailed
and more current than the unclassified talking points that UN
Ambassador Susan Rice and other officials used five days after the
attack to suggest to Americans that an unruly mob angry over an
anti-Islamic video was to blame, officials said.
Most of the details affirming al-Qaida links were edited or
excluded from the unclassified talking points used by Rice in
appearances on news programs the weekend after the attack,
officials confirmed Friday. Multiple agencies were involved in
excising information, doing so because it revealed sources and
methods, dealt with classified intercepts or involved information
that was not yet fully confirmed, the officials said.
Solomon cautions that there were bits of evidence pointing to a
spontaneous attack but, as Eli Lake of the Daily Beast and others
have reported, he writes: “Among the early evidence cited in the
briefings to the president and other senior officials were
intercepts showing some of the participants were known members or
supporters of Ansar al-Sharia — the al-Qaida-sympathizing militia
in Libya — and the AQIM, which is a direct affiliate of al-Qaida in
northern Africa, the officials said.”
How could the president and his senior staff then have allowed (or
rather, sent) Rice to go out to tell an entirely different tale to
the American people on Sept. 16 on five TV shows?
This report indicates that the president certainly knew that
Benghazi wasn’t a rogue movie review gone bad. He had information
that plainly spelled out what was later confirmed by additional
intelligence. If this information was too confidential to share
with the public, at the very least the president and others should
not have mislead voters.
This is a full-blown scandal, and in light of this information, the
press corps’s slothful indifference to uncovering the truth at
Wednesday’s news conference with Obama is all the more shocking. It
is time for the president to come clean. The scandal has now
enveloped the Oval Office and will define his second term, if not
resolved satisfactorily.
The irony of this is that Rice may well have been used as a patsy,
unaware that she was sent out to spin a misleading tale. My
colleague Dana Milbank recounts Rice’s long-standing inability to
get along with others and to be circumspect in her pronouncements:
It’s true that, in her much-criticized TV performance, she was
reciting talking points given to her by the intelligence agencies.
But that’s the trouble. Rice stuck with her points even though they
had been contradicted by the president of the Libyan National
Assembly, who, on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ just before Rice, said
there was “no doubt” that the attack on Americans in Benghazi “was
preplanned.” Rice rebutted the Libyan official, arguing — falsely,
it turned out — that there was no evidence of such planning. .?.?.
Obama can do better at State than Susan Rice.
Frankly the same could be said of many national security positions
at this point. The American people made their choice in November on
the president, but it now appears they were duped regarding the
real facts concerning Benghazi. What are we going to do about that?
Continues:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/breaking-the-
president-knew-the-truth-about-benghazi/2012/11/16/39aecaf0-3034-
11e2-9f50-0308e1e75445_blog.html
Learn the truth about the Muslim Brotherhood:
http://muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/
Libya: The Real Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CrVUYOooRQ
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