Lies, Damned Lies, and Garden-Variety Self-Deception [Benghazi]

Slate ^ | April 30, 2014 | John Dickerson

[thirst4truth]

With every other investigation, like Petraus, they always say no comment as it is under investigation, right? But when Rice went on TV to share her story, before an investigation had even been started, she said, "for a fact the attack was caused by a you tube video."

They could have just said, we are not sure, we are investigating what happened it has only been 4 days. But no they knew for a fact that it was a video, not terrorists who attacked our facilities on 9-11.

[kevkrom]

Let me translate: “Duh, of course the White House is lying. But they’re on our side, so we’ll just chalk it up to ‘business as usual’ and get back to making stuff up to discredit conservatives.”

[glennaro]

You’re absolutely correct — The objective of the Democrat Socialists is to keep the focus of this on anything but Mrs. B.J. Clinton ... keep on the regime, keep it on the media, keep it on the e-mails ... anything but on B.J.’s wife.

[MortMan]

??? I don’t understand your response to Ronin’s post.

[Dqban22]

THE MSM IS A BIGGER PAWN OF OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THAN PRAVDA WAS IN TIMES OF THE SOVIET UNION.

Retired Military Official: We Knew Benghazi Attacks Attributable to Terrorist Group, Not Video

Michael Warren
May 1, 2014

http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/blogs/military-official-benghazi-attacks-attributable-terrorist-group_788938.html

A retired military officer serving in the U.S.’s Africa Command headquarters in Germany told the House oversight committee Thursday that it was his belief at the time that the September 11, 2012, attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya was attributable to an Islamic extremist group and not an internet video.

Robert Lovell was an brigadier general with the Air Force, stationed in Germany, when four Americans were killed in Benghazi. In his congressional testimony, Lovell said that his role was to focus on “attribution” of the attack.

“What do you believe they were attributable to?” asked Utah Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz.

“That they were attributable to an Islamist extremist group,” Lovell responded.

“Al Qaeda?” Chaffetz asked.

“We felt it was Ansar al Sharia,” said Lovell.

“Which is affiliated with al Qaeda?” Chaffetz asked.

“Yes,” said Lovell.

Watch the exchange below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNWxZhHw3v8&feature=player_embedded

Lovell also said that the attack was not attributable to a video or protests arising from such a video.