Herridge On Cable Month Before Benghazi Attack: "Smoking Gun Warning Here"

Real Clear Politics ^ | 10/31/12 | Catherine Herridge

[Roberts]

"I really believe, having read it, that it is the smoking gun warning here. You've got this emergency meeting in Benghazi, less than a month before the attack. At that briefing, the people are told that there are ten, ten, Islamic militias and al-Qaeda groups in Benghazi. The consulate can not sustain a coordinated attack and they need extra help. This information goes directly to the office of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. So, again, you have the culpability of the State Department. This is a very specific warning that they're in trouble, they need help and they see an attack on the horizon," FOX News' Catherine Herridge reported on FOX News' "On the Record" Wednesday night.

"I believe based on this cable the point that was being made, that they wanted made publicly, not just in a classified study, is that the warning that came from Benghazi was very specific. It said 'we can not withstand an attack,' the militias are everything, al-Qaeda is here. This was known to the U.S. intelligence community as well. And that they really could not see a situation where security was going to turn around. They send that it was trending negatively," Herridge further reported.

"I can't think of anything that would be more specific than if these groups had emailed the State Department and said, 'Here's the time, here's the place, and here's the method of the attack,'" she said.

[virgil]

I wonder where Herridge is getting all of this information, too. How is she coming by it? I hope her sources are trustworthy.

[nuconvert]

“It looks as though the _resident is gonna blame Bubba’s wife.”

I don’t know about that. Bill would not take kindly to being used for campaigning for Obama and then have Hillary take the rap after the election.