Stephanie Cutter refuses to answer specific questions ...won’t resign

President Barack Obama’s deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, offered no apology and refused to resign for playing politics with the murders of four Americans in Libya a month ago – including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens – when questioned in Danville, Kentucky, before Thursday’s vice presidential debate.

On CNN on Thursday, Cutter said Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s campaign is the only reason anyone cares about the administration’s changing narrative about the Sept. 11 attack on the Benghazi embassy.

“In terms of the politicization of this — you know, we are here at a debate, and I hope we get to talk about the debate — but the entire reason this has become the political topic it is, is because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan,” Cutter said. “It’s a big part of their stump speech. And it’s reckless and irresponsible, what they’re doing.”

TownHall Magazine’s Katie Pavlich asked Cutter if she had any plans to resign over the comments. “I do not,” Cutter responded.

“I do,” she said, before scrambling away from Pavlich, who was visibly flustered with Cutter’s unresponsiveness.

Obama campaign rapid response spokeswoman Lis Smith, who has been tweeting up a storm defending Cutter’s remarks, didn’t immediately respond to The Daily Caller when asked if President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden also approve of Cutter’s statements.

“From the time of the attack in Libya, Mitt Romney has stopped at nothing to politicize these events,” she said in the written statement. “While Mitt Romney, Congressman Ryan, and their Republican allies in Congress have turned a national tragedy into a political circus, the President has been focused on getting the facts, finding the terrorists responsible, and bringing them to justice. Our nation’s security and how we handle the transitions in the Middle East and North Africa are critical issues in this campaign, and just 26 days before an election, the American people deserve real ideas and specifics from Mitt Romney.”

This whole thing is just outright ridiculous. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that an attack involving heavy machine guns, RPG teams, a platoon sized assault element and highly accurate mortar fire from the outset is a pre-planned, coordinated complex ambush/attack.

As pointed out by reports that have came out, the description of the mortar fire being instantly precise is a dead giveaway on this. Mortars are mostly inaccurate if you’re using them on the fly and require time for them to adjust onto a target. In this situation, however, they were accurate from the beginning. This means one of two things, 1) they were extremely lucky (very highly doubtful) or 2. they conducted prior on site surveillance that included measuring the distance and direction for the mortar team or they calculated distance and direction by using google earth/ used detailed maps to provide instant accuracy.

Even if you dismiss all that, it’s impossible to conclude that it was some spontaneous protest that got out of hand because all of these ambush/attack elements were, in fact, in place and executed simultaneously. The only obvious conclusion you can come to is that it was prior coordinated. They knew all this from day one, of course. Why they are lying to the American public I have no idea, but it’s absolutely shameful.

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