Fox News confirms Obama admin designated Benghazi sacking a terror attack within first 24 hours

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[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:

[chessplayer]

The View is still blaming the youtube video.

[bandleader]

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

[Sacajaweau]

Maybe Obama didn’t catch the date of the “spontaneous, unplanned, retaliatory” attack.

[BlueStateRightist]

Anyone still watching The View is completely out of Romney’s reach. Let them live their elitist Manhattan-ized cocoon.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I’m sure this will be all over the major networks : )

[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." And there are plenty of ways they can build upon that, true or not. It is an error to focus on the lie. It diverts from the true perfidy and that is the State Department memo that says no credible 9-11 threat exists. Keep the focus on events leading up to and including the incident. The aftermath is a tar-baby, no code word intended.

[Never on my watch]

What irks me most about this, was the horrifying callousness of Hillary and Obama blaming the video for the murders (i.e. free speech), while the Americans killed in action lay in caskets on the side.

[chessplayer]

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

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He can play any kind of game he wants because he knows the media will cover for him.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I have a feelin’ he armed the rebels.

[blueunicorn6]

Nixon was run out of office because his administration supposedly lied about a bungled attempt to sneak a peek at some Democrat papers. No one was ever killed. The Obama administration has lied to us to cover-up their incompetence that resulted in the deaths of at least six Americans including a United States Ambassador who represented all of us. Which case is worse? Where are the front page stories in the Washington Post? Where are those Pulitzer prize winning reporters digging into this story because the American public must know the truth? Is Robert Redford going to make a movie about this? Hypocrites....filthy, stinking political parrots squawking out platitudes from their Democrat pirate-thief owners.

[TomGuy]

The View is still blaming the youtube video.

So was radio news at 5:00 p.m. CDT yesterday.

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So, Rice's appearances on the Sunday morning newstalk shows were nothing but song-and-dance distractions. She was lying, and she knew she was lying.

Lying is endemic of the whole Administration.

To quote one of their own, “week after week after week we were told lie after lie after lie after lie.”
[Ted Kennedy, 2004]

[MikeSteelBe]

“What kind of game is this A**H*LE playing?”

“Destroying Western Christian Culture” by economic and cultural Marxism, enabled by the Cloward-Piven strategy and a propaganda media.

[Ohiobelle]

Thank you Fox! Now is the Obama Administration going to apologize to us for once? Refund us 70,000? Maybe he should take responsibility for lying about the video which resulted in all the protests?

[DonkeyBonker]

You can tell when Obama is lying because his lips are moving.

[McGruff]

So as President of the United States it took you two weeks to come clean on this?

[Riflema]

Ruh-roh... You could be onto something big there.

[chessplayer]

The media will investigate this as much as they investigated F&F,,,which means no investigation whatsoever. They will aid and abet the coverup.

[LittleSpotBlog]

The saddest part is that the media has no interest in the truth. Can you IMAGINE the uproar if this had happened under W??

[Chuzzlewit]

“I have a feelin’ he armed the rebels”

hmmmm.. that is an interesting take. If they knew right away, as we all did, then why the cover-up concerning the cause... that is the next question to be answered.. they went to great lengths with Rice, etc, to claim this Libya attack was spontaneous. and I’ve thought over and over.. why.... why did they go to these lengths ?

[Ohiobelle]

They won’t even post on their websites. CNN.com, MSNBC.com. Nothing at all about it.