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Fox News confirms Obama admin designated Benghazi sacking a terror attack within first 24 hours
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Posted on 09/27/2012 9:00:18 AM PDT by chessplayer

Fox News follows up on Eli Lake’s excellent reporting on the intel after the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens, confirming from their own sources that the US knew within the first twenty-four hours that the sacking of the Benghazi consulate was no “spontaneous demonstration” that spun out of control. In fact, they already suspected al-Qaeda of masterminding the planned terrorist attack on the compound days before even admitting that it had been a terror attack at all — and had designated the incident as terrorism in order to pursue one suspect:

U.S. intelligence officials knew within 24 hours of the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that it was a terrorist attack and suspected Al Qaeda-tied elements were involved, sources told Fox News — though it took the administration a week to acknowledge it.

The account conflicts with claims on the Sunday after the attack by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice that the administration believed the strike was a “spontaneous” event triggered by protests in Egypt over an anti-Islam film.

Two senior U.S. officials said the Obama administration internally labeled the attack terrorism from the first day in order to unlock and mobilize certain resources to respond, and that officials were looking for one specific suspect.

Four days later, the White House sent UN Ambassador Susan Rice to five different Sunday talk shows to claim that the sacking and assassination sprang from a “spontaneous” demonstration. That no longer can be explained as initial confusion over conflicting reports; it is now clearly a lie told by the White House. Jennifer Rubin pointed this out at the Washington Post even before the Fox report, and wondered where the national media that screeched at every claim by George W. Bush has suddenly become so comfortable with an administration that flat-out lies to them:


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghaziattack; benghazicoverup; benghazigate; benghazisecurity; hillary; impeachnow; libya; obama; shadowwars; threatmatrix; waronterror
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To: Chuzzlewit

We’ve been arming and funding them.


21 posted on 09/27/2012 9:27:59 AM PDT by Ohiobelle
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To: chessplayer

I would comment on this but just heard that B Obama and H Clinton are holding a joint press conference and are going to release ALL the facts, including the diary.

Also, Boehner is calling Congress back to look into the butchering of facts.

McConnell, is also pressuring Reid to call the Senate back so ‘we’ can get to the bottom of this.

Oops, got to go, they are coming with my noon meds....

Some fool claims I am delusional...oh well.....


22 posted on 09/27/2012 9:29:06 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

He did.


23 posted on 09/27/2012 9:34:42 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and bo stinks)
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To: bandleader
What kind of game is this A**H*LE playing?????????????????

Golf.... mostly.

24 posted on 09/27/2012 9:39:21 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: xrmusn

McCain wants to arm the Syrian rebels too. Funny how our so called elected functionaries are all in for arming wild Indians but when it comes to arms availability for American citizens. . .

” well, urk, dzzzz, burble burble pip pip OUTRAGEOUS! You can’t do that! Little children would be killed! . . . . !!!! Brzzt. Brzzzzzzxt”


25 posted on 09/27/2012 9:40:10 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.u)
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To: chessplayer

Democrats lie.

In other news, water is wet.


26 posted on 09/27/2012 9:40:58 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: chessplayer

Can’t blame Bam on this...he rarely attends intelligence briefings....its more important for him to be shaking down dummies.


27 posted on 09/27/2012 9:41:23 AM PDT by kenmcg (t)
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To: MestaMachine

I would bet good money he did.

One of the guys that was killed was there to retrieve the arms given them (was an arms expert).....IMHO.


28 posted on 09/27/2012 9:44:01 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

That was the reason BOTH SEALS were there. They were not part of embassy security...although they did try to save the ambassador’s life.


29 posted on 09/27/2012 9:47:33 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and bo stinks)
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To: NonValueAdded
There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this post-attack behavior, even if it is completely fabricated: "we told the lie for national security reasons."

"Of course his records show he was in prison, as do the records of all the men in the 303, for national security reasons."


30 posted on 09/27/2012 9:52:14 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: MestaMachine

Yep.


31 posted on 09/27/2012 9:52:59 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Of course he did. Stevens was there to cover up the evidence.


32 posted on 09/27/2012 9:54:45 AM PDT by angcat (ROMNEY/RYAN 2012)
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To: MestaMachine

I read that the Seals were there to “protect” information that was stored in the Benghazi Consulate, information about contacts that the administration had worked with during the Libyan fighting. I guess this could mean tracking weapons.


33 posted on 09/27/2012 9:57:10 AM PDT by Eva (Obama and Hillary lied, Americans died.)
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To: TomGuy
Stanley Motss: "This is politics at its finest."


34 posted on 09/27/2012 10:02:34 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: McGruff
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35 posted on 09/27/2012 10:02:43 AM PDT by CodeToad (Be Prepared...They Are.)
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To: atc23
McCain wants to arm the Syrian rebels too.

Yes, and he is adamant about it. I thought he was a jerk back in 2008, but I have since then concluded that he is not only deserving of the higher "asshole" rank, but is also either:

1. delusional
2. the original mole of choice before they found a more useful one in Hawaii/Kenya/Connecticut/Qom.

Mr niteowl77

36 posted on 09/27/2012 10:04:37 AM PDT by niteowl77 (Getting stuck with other peoples' just desserts good and hard for over 50 years.)
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To: UCANSEE2

What kind of game is this A**H*LE playing?????????????????
Golf.... mostly.


G.O.L.F. = Go On Lying Forever


37 posted on 09/27/2012 10:10:38 AM PDT by AlexisHeavyMetal1981 (x)
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To: NonValueAdded

Thanks


38 posted on 09/27/2012 10:15:01 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

This is un effing believable! A donk spokesman was just on FoxNews insisting that Rice did not lie when she said the consulate attack and murder of Stevens was the result of a spontaneous protest/ reaction to the youtube video! I’m ready to pull my hair out!


39 posted on 09/27/2012 10:29:47 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Sure it is, but right in line for these people.


40 posted on 09/27/2012 10:32:28 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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