This is new.
Posted on 10/23/2012 8:44:28 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Officials at the White House and State Department were alerted two hours after attackers stormed the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the assault, emails show.
The emails, obtained by Reuters from government sources not connected with U.S. spy agencies or the State Department and who requested anonymity, specifically mention that the Libyan group called Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for the attacks.
The brief missives also show how U.S. diplomats described the attack, even as it was still under way, to Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Full title:
“White House knew al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for deadly Libya attack just TWO HOURS later, emails reveal”
Well, they pretty much have.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204112/Libya-claims-US-warned-THREE-DAYS-advance-consulate-attacks.html
why wouldn’t they know a couple hours later it was reported they were warned 3 days earlier
“Well, they pretty much have. “
No, as a matter of fact, they have not.
Nearest air base is Sigonella Sicily at 470 miles away. There were F-18’s there and they could have flown that in 20 minutes. An AC-130 can fly that in 90 minutes.
There was also a fully armed SF QRF on the tarmac for HOURS waiting for the go order that NEVER CAME.
This is new.
Mitt knew this was coming. That’s why he didn’t go into attack mode last night. That and women voters hated the bickering.
Another great example of the most important US news getting reported by a BRITISH newspaper...
Facebook???
Like this was tough to solve?
I hope you are not missing the point entirely (and I don’t think you are)...
Leave Facebook out of it, that is irrelevant...
This is the smoking gun, proving the President and State Department were notified that it was a terrorist attack, and they have no more cover for their lies.
NONE.
Oh agree. Smoking gun, likely from Hillary.
But Facebook? Aren’t there journalists out there? A shame we have no real investigative press - unless it’s a Republican target.
So, there will be more talk in Congress about it, which doesn't get reported at all by the MSM, and it'll blow over like every other thing that's happened with this administration.
Placemark.
>>So, there will be more talk in Congress about it, which doesn’t get reported at all by the MSM, and it’ll blow over like every other thing that’s happened with this administration. <<
And Obama will be re-elected and we’re all doomed. Ho-hum. No use even trying, right?
Nice defeatist attitude.
Actually, this story is breaking hard. Just got picked up by CBS News.
Very nice observation. Interesting.
Few believed leaks of truth wouldn’t be forthcoming, but “when” was the question. These people are p!$$%$ at the ignoring of security in favor of posturing for “normalized relations” that do not exist.
You may be exactly correct, and intell is slipping the messages to Romney in advance.
No, I don’t mean to say we shouldn’t try... but I’m a realist and don’t believe that most liberals would even care about Obama lying about this. They pretty much accept any behavior from him as long as he’s not taking away their goodies.
Ya know whqt this feels like? TWA800. Cuz it happened in the run up to the election and Bill’s message was Peace And Prosperity, noooot TERRORISM. Bill preferred not to have to deal with that, so they just ordered all investigators to see it that way.
So they just covered it all up.
So in terms of political timing and terrorism actually we have been here before.
The world is getting this now as even this column is UK. Thank goodness.
Best of all, just think what this does to Gloria Allred’s plans. She will get buried in an avalanche of Benghazi.
Dereliction of duty will trump her gossip.
The world is getting this now as even this column is UK. Thank goodness.
Best of all, just think what this does to Gloria Allred’s plans. She will get buried in an avalanche of Benghazi.
Dereliction of duty will trump her gossip.
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