Ben Gazi
Posted on 10/24/2012 3:17:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Newly disclosed e-mails show that the State Department and other federal agencies knew within hours of the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that a local militant Islamist group was claiming responsibility for the action.
The State Department e-mails do not offer information that is markedly different from what was already known. Press reports the day after the Sept. 11 attack were already speculating about the involvement of Ansar al-Sharia, a Libyan extremist group with loose ties to Al Qaeda.
But they could nevertheless rekindle the controversy over what the Obama administration knew about the terrorist attack, when it knew it, and why administration officials persisted in speaking of a mob incited by an anti-Islam video as a perpetrator of the attack.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
CS Monitor picking up the story....Will NBC. ABC and CBS put it on the nightly news tonight? Doubt it...but if it doesn’t go away, they will have to before the end of the week...
Obama should hold a press conference and answer the questions. He is spending too much time lying on his campaign tour.
Obama should hold a press conference and answer the questions. He is spending too much time lying on his campaign tour.
And now he is talking about the importance of Trust
Sure...because he means everything he says...until after he says it.
The clamor from the Republicans, on the Capitol steps, is deafening, right? Huh?
” The clamor from the Republicans, on the Capitol steps, is deafening, right? Huh?”
Are any of them still alive ?
No evidence.
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