Thank you. Another lie?
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, let me, first of all, talk about our diplomats, because they serve all around the world and do an incredible job in a very dangerous situation. And these aren’t just representatives of the United States; they’re my representatives. I send them there, oftentimes into harm’s way. I know these folks, and I know their families. So nobody’s more concerned about their safety and security than I am.
So as soon as we found out that the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team, and I gave them three instructions. Number one, beef up our security and — and — and procedures not just in Libya but every embassy and consulate in the region. Number two, investigate exactly what happened, regardless of where the facts lead us, to make sure that folks are held accountable and it doesn’t happen again. And number three, we are going to find out who did this, and we are going to hunt them down, because one of the things that I’ve said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with Americans, we go after them.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-11
5:00 pm
The President and the Vice President meet with Secretary of Defense
Oval Office
Closed Press
Obama was informed about the developments in Libya by his National Security Adviser Tom Donilon as the president began a weekly meeting Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey. The White House said Obama was kept apprised throughout the evening and then again Wednesday morning.
Doesn't it strike you as odd that the Pres., Sec. Def. and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all of whom would have each been immediately notified, would continue their meeting and simply be "apprised" of an ongoing attack of unprecedented scale on a U.S. embassy?
A situation that would require a president's order to respond to and would require the knowledgeable input of the Sec. Def and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They weren't even curious to use the resources at hand to watch an unprecedented attack on an embassy outpost? I hate to think what it would take to peak their interest.