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Internal Emails: State Dept. Immediately Attributed Benghazi Attacks to Terrorist Group
sharylattkisson.com ^ | May 1, 2014 | by Sharyl Attkisson,

Posted on 05/01/2014 9:50:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

A newly-released government email indicates that within hours of the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya; the State Department had already concluded with certainty that the Islamic militia terrorist group Ansar al Sharia was to blame.

The private, internal communication directly contradicts the message that President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice and White House press secretary Jay Carney repeated publicly over the course of the next several weeks. They often maintained that an anti-Islamic YouTube video inspired a spontaneous demonstration that escalated into violence.

The email is entitled “Libya update from Beth Jones. ” Jones was then-Assistant Secretary of State to Hillary Clinton. According to the email, Jones spoke to Libya’s Ambassador at 9:45am on Sept. 12, 2012 following the attacks.

“When [the Libyan Ambassador] said his government suspected that former Qaddafi regime elements carried out the attacks, I told him the group that conducted the attacks—Ansar Al Sharia—is affiliated with Islamic extremists,” Jones reports in the email.

There is no uncertainty assigned to the assessment, which does not mention a video or a protest. The State Department provided the email to Congress in Aug. of 2013 under special conditions that it not be publicly released at that time. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) sought and received permission to release it Thursday.

“If the video was a cause, why did Beth Jones of the State Department tell the Libyan Ambassador that Ansar Al Sharia was responsible for the attack?” said Chaffetz.

(Excerpt) Read more at sharylattkisson.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ansaralsharia; attkisson; benghazi; bethjones; coverup; email; hillary; libya; statedept
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To: Jim Robinson

Of course they knew what was happening. The big guy willingly did nothing, because his true love is the bearded savages who were raping and murdering the ambassador.


21 posted on 05/02/2014 4:19:20 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Jim Robinson

It looks like State are trying to lay blame for the video cover-up bullshit story squarely on the White House and the Kenyan re-election spin doctors...


22 posted on 05/02/2014 4:29:29 AM PDT by Geronimo
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To: Geronimo

The statement assumes a monolithic State.

I would think there are some that are offended by the lies and know that Presidents come and go but diplomats remain forever


23 posted on 05/02/2014 4:33:48 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: maine-iac7

Published on Oct 30, 2013
Trey Gowdy Demands Answers On Benghazi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1jeJmeeMjs


24 posted on 05/02/2014 4:36:40 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Jim Robinson

Personally think that all these emails and releases are meant to help Hilary 2016... Blame is being passed onto the white house...


25 posted on 05/02/2014 4:38:55 AM PDT by Vlaxo
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To: PghBaldy

Congressional subpoenas were issued for all communications relating to Benghazi. Ben Rhoades works in the White House and an email he sent to several people including press secretary Jay Carney (also working for the White House, was not produced until this April in a civil action involving FOIA. This is criminal conspiracy to avoid oversight by Congress. Someone needs to go to jail for this.


26 posted on 05/02/2014 4:41:21 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

bttt


27 posted on 05/02/2014 4:57:15 AM PDT by metesky (My investment program is holding steady @ $0.05 cents a can.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Yep, watched it read into the record yesterday.

This is bigger than the Ben Rhodes email.

The White House was deceitful from Day 1.

And remember, two weeks later, Obama was still lying to the world in front of the U.N. General Assembly.

28 posted on 05/02/2014 6:37:02 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: dila813
The press has to be given the info, they won’t investigate, they have to be brought dragging and screaming to report this story

Incorrect.

The Propaganda Ministry, formerly and incorrectly known as the American "News" Media, will not report any of this, even if dragged, kicking and screaming.

29 posted on 05/02/2014 6:41:06 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is proof positive that this band of criminals will do ANYTHING to protect their Messiah.

Even the murder of 4 Americans does not deter them.


30 posted on 05/02/2014 6:46:27 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: djpg
Boehner will now tell us that there is not enough evidence to justify a special prosecutor.

Boehner is actually MORE of my enemy than Obama.

31 posted on 05/02/2014 6:49:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: RitaOK; MeshugeMikey; Nachum; Republicanprofessor; All

BTTT!

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” - - - The email is entitled “Libya update from Beth Jones. ” Jones was then-Assistant Secretary of State to Hillary Clinton. According to the email, Jones spoke to Libya’s Ambassador at 9:45am on Sept. 12, 2012 following the attacks.

“When [the Libyan Ambassador] said his government suspected that former Qaddafi regime elements carried out the attacks, I told him the group that conducted the attacks—Ansar Al Sharia—is affiliated with Islamic extremists,” Jones reports in the email. - - - “

Oh, me! Oh, my!! Whatever will the Covered Up White House do now?!

Will the highly decorated, ( it was THE Nobel “White Guilt” Peace Prize), AWOL Commander in Chief of all US Military Forces, B. Hussein Obama, rise to the occasion of this leak of an inconvenient email?

Will AWOL Commander in Chief B. Hussein use his phone and/or pen to ridicule or just deny that Benhghazi was nothing more than workplace violence?

Whatever will Mrs. Bill Clinton do now?

Hilly-Benghazi was Secretary of Statements when Bethy J. sent Hilly the FYI email!

Oh, me! Oh, my!!

Maybe hubby “Zipper-Boy” Clinton can help Hilly “slick” all this away?

Being a devoted Public Servant such as Obama and Hilly must be soooooo stressful at times!

To their credit, both B. Hussein and Mrs. Bill Clinton slept well that night while their Federal employees were being brutally injured and slaughtered at the multiple Benghazi Massacre workplace violence facilities.

Should B. Hussein and Mrs. Bill Clinton file for back payment increases in their Hazardous Stress Duty pay?

My guess is that B. Hussein could pull a few strings, and have “a bunch of folks” at the IRS cut these well-deserved “refund” checks.

Oops! I forgot! All B. Hussein has to do is issue an Executive Order to get the checks for Hazardous Stress duty pay, even though he was AWOL as Commander in Chief during the period of maximum stress.

No worries though as Speaker Boehner will continue to block any Special Investigator or Committee proposals from reaching the floor of the US House of Representatives.

All will be safe again in Obamanation!

MOVE ON!
FORWARD!


32 posted on 05/02/2014 6:58:19 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: All

Obama’s kiss of death strikes again...

State Department: ‘Libya Has Become a Terrorist Safe Haven’

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/state-department-libya-has-become-terrorist-safe-haven


33 posted on 05/02/2014 7:09:23 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Graewoulf

WHAT DID DOOFUS KNOW.,,and WHEN DID HE KNOW IT!


34 posted on 05/02/2014 7:17:36 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: djpg
Boehner will now tell us that there is not enough evidence to justify a special prosecutor.

Believe it or don't but he's signaling that he "is now considering" a SP.

35 posted on 05/02/2014 8:09:44 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: maine-iac7

According to Tommy “Dude” Vietor, the President was never in the Situation Room during the Benghazi attack.

You’re right, that’s as cold-blooded as it gets.

Watching Vietor on Fox last night, he “didn’t remember” whether he’d changed ‘attacks’ to ‘protests’. But he refers to it now as “attacks”.


36 posted on 05/02/2014 8:28:24 AM PDT by unsycophant
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To: PghBaldy

His handlers still have an agenda to accomplish


37 posted on 05/02/2014 8:30:12 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

H. Mike

thanks for that link reminder.

Trey Gowdy is a man to watch - he’s not afraid to take em all on - he’s not owned by the Establishment, he’s not SKull & Bones/Yale/Harvard.(”Trey graduated from Spartanburg High School in 1982. He earned a B.A. in history from Baylor University in 1986. He was a member of Kappa Omega Tau, a service/social Fraternity while at Baylor University. He earned a J.D. degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1989”)

I don’t fully trust anyone who is ‘Ivy League”

We need people who weren’t subject to indoctrination/blackmail.

We need the Gowdys, Wests, Palins, Gingriches - dyed in the wool constitutionalists, lovers of America, ‘non-parsers’

your link of Gowdy - a YEAR ago - c’mon, SHEEPLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1jeJmeeMjs


38 posted on 05/02/2014 8:55:15 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Diogenesis

Krauthammer’s Take: New Benghazi E-mail Akin to Discovery of Nixon Tapes

NRO May 1, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxtr9_8yoqI&feature=player_embedded

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It is appalling that President Obama never was in the Situation Room the night of September 11, 2012, as our ambassador to Libya and three other men were being attacked, captured, and eventually killed after being dragged through the streets of Benghazi and tortured in hideous fashion.

Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said that he: ‘Could not put forces at risk’ in order to rescue our men who were under Muslim terrorist attack in Benghazi.

An article in the Prague newspaper, Prager Zeitungon hit the bulls-eye:

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President.”

If Trey Gowdy Chairs the Congress Select Committee to investigate Benghazi, this scandal will prove to be much worse than Watergate.


39 posted on 05/02/2014 10:53:17 AM PDT by Dqban22
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