Posted on 05/22/2014 11:11:00 AM PDT by kristinn
A still-classified State Department e-mail says that one of the first responses from the White House to the Benghazi attack was to contact YouTube to warn of the ramifications of allowing the posting of an anti-Islamic video, according to Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The memo suggests that even as the attack was still underway and before the CIA began the process of compiling talking points on its analysis of what happened the White House believed it was in retaliation for a controversial video.
The subject line of the e-mail, which was sent at 9:11 p.m. Eastern Time on the night of the attack, is Update on Response to actions Libya. The was written hours before the attack was over.
Issa has asked the White House to declassify and release the document. In the meantime he has inserted a sentence from the e-mail in the Congressional Record.
White House is reaching out to U-Tube [sic] to advice ramification of the posting of the Pastor Jon video, the e-mail reads, according to Issa.
Issas full statement can be read here.
Asked about the document, a senior White House official told ABC News it demonstrates that the White House genuinely believed the video sparked the attack all along, a belief that turned out to be incorrect.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
To be clear.
This was a CIA outpost. They had their marching orders that may have or likely included sending arms to Syria via Turkey.
Dog whistle.
Or in Hillary’s case a “bitch” whistle
“The Pastor Jon video is NOT the Innocence of Muslims video blamed later, too?!”
What is the Pastor Jon video????
Thanks for your informative posts. Take care.
Go Darrell go! Go Sarah go! Go Ted go!
Yes the video was stupid. So stupid that I didn't finish it either. And there's a whole hell of a lot of other videos that are WAY more "offensive" to Islam.
Why this particular video, unwatched and preposterous became the obsession of the WH is a true mystery.
Hmmmm...for some reason, the word “premeditated” keeps coming to mind.
Wonder how many of the viewers were freepers checking it out!!!
Does this lend credence to the theory of white house involvement in a fake kidnapping????
agreed
Somebody better tell Candy Crowley.
This is like two years old “dude”.
video killed the radio star.
Of course, if they were busy constructing a facade before blood was spilled, then they were aware of future events, i.e. this was a planned operation, closely held, and they were constructing the facade amongst closely held resources to avoid accountability or loose ends.
Thanks again for the ping, cyn! :-)
Interesting study
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ADl6oT1fk&list=TLkvtWx_UFFpBH613zPdp1nFwxFU51lqvf
Mark
IMHO. more likely that the White House immediately began to scour YouTube for as many anti-Islam videos as they could find, and then chose the one that would best fit their desire to blame the attack on something...anything...but their own failures.
Then, on finding a likely candidate, they contacted YouTube to start their narrative.
The first apology from the Cairo embassy was early in the morning before the protesters showed up there. 20+ hours before the Benghazi attack.
US Embassy in Cairo quietly deletes its we stand by our condemnation tweet; Update: More deleted tweets!US Embassy In Cairo Deletes Controversial Tweets
A Timeline Of The Attacks In Libya And Egypt -- And The Responses
Brian Beutler September 12, 2012, 8:50 PM EDTIn anticipation of the ensuing uproar, the U.S. embassy in Cairo issues a statement at 6:17 a.m. ET, according to State Department officials, condemning all attempts to "abuse" free speech rights to offend people of any religion.
"The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims - as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."
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ME protests: the hardline 'tele-Islamist' who brought anti-Islam film to Muslim world's attention
...but nobody had paid attention to its crude libels against the Prophet Mohammed until Mr Abdullah's show broadcast clips from it last weekend,... - Sept. 8-9
Interesting that Nakoula the film maker is also a FedMob stooge.
Producer Of Anti-Islam Film Was Fed Snitch
L.A. man began cooperating after 2009 fraud bust
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