06-30-2020, 10:29 AM
(06-29-2020, 08:42 PM)6andcounting Wrote: Yeah, your right. It wasn't the day of the attack the President of Libya told Face the Nation it was a planned and orchestrated attack. It was September 16 - so 5 days later. And the mortar attack was not 12 hours long - the mortar attack happened about 12 hours after the initial attack. As well, the promotional trailers and bits an pieces of the video were released over 2 months prior, the full Arabic sub-title version was just released in Septe,ber.
However, there were no protests around the consulate. It was gun fire and explosions from the attackers that created that started it all. They weren't hidden amoung protestors as there were no protestors there.The Obama administration publicly said it was because of protesting a video, but internally they were saying the exact opposite.
Privately Clinton said "officers were killed in Benghazi by an Al-Queda-like group" and told the Prime Minister of Egypt "We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the flim". Both of this statements came less than 24 hours after the attack. At the same time Clintons deputy chief of staff said in an internal email "We're not saying the violence in Libya erupted 'over inflammatory videos'".
Less than 3 days after the attack officials in the state department were emailing each other "'it is becoming increasingly clear that the series of events in Benghazi was much more terrorist attack than a protest which escalated into violence. It is our opinion that in our messaging, we want to distinguish, not conflate, the events in other countries with this well-planned attack by militant extremists.” "
Below are more details on the above quotes, as we'll as other statements said internally that contradicted the public statements.
9/11/2012
[b]11:12 p.m.[/b]: Clinton sends an email to her daughter, Chelsea, that reads: “Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an al Qaeda-like group: The Ambassador, whom I handpicked and a young communications officer on temporary duty w a wife and two young children. Very hard day and I fear more of the same tomorrow.” (The email was discovered in 2015 by the House Select Committee on Benghazi. It is written to “Diane Reynolds,” which was Chelsea Clinton’s alias.)
[b]Sept. 12:[/b] Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, sends an email prior to Obama’s Rose Garden address to Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security advisor for strategic communications at the White House, and others that says, “There was not really much violence in Egypt. And we are not saying that the violence in Libya erupted ‘over inflammatory videos.’”
[b]Sept. 12, 3:04 p.m.[/b]: Clinton calls then-Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil and tells him, “We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack — not a protest.” An account of that call was contained in an email written by State Department Public Affairs Officer Lawrence Randolph. The email was released by the House Benghazi committee.
[b]Sept. 12, 6:06 p.m.[/b]: Beth Jones, the acting assistant secretary of state for the Near East, sends an email to top State Department officials that reads in part: “[T]he group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia, is affiliated with Islamic extremists.” (An excerpt of Jones’ email was read by Rep. Trey Gowdy at the May 8, 2013, House oversight hearing.)
Sept. 13: CNN reports that unnamed “State Department officials” say the incident in Benghazi was a “clearly planned military-type attack” unrelated to the anti-Muslim movie.
[b]Sept. 14:[/b] A State Department public information official writes in an email: “t is becoming increasingly clear that the series of events in Benghazi was much more terrorist attack than a protest which escalated into violence. It is our opinion that in our messaging, we want to distinguish, not conflate, the events in other countries with this well-planned attack by militant extremists.” (The email was released Oct. 31, 2015, by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, and was contained in the Benghazi committee report issued June 28, 2016. The name of the person who sent the email and the person or persons who received the email were redacted. However, the person who wrote the email is identified in the committee report as a “public information officer from the Embassy in Tripoli,” and the email says it reflects “our view at Embassy Tripoli.” It also says, “I have discussed this with [name redacted] and he shares PAS’s view.” PAS stands for Public Affairs Section.)
https://www.factcheck.org/2012/10/benghazi-timeline/
I have already admitted that it was a few days before the Obama administration said it was clearly an act of terrorism instead of a riot over a videotape. So I don't know what your point is.
The GIANT SCANDAL was over in days and the Obama administration neither gained or lost anything over the way the information was presented. the fact that Republicans still obsess over a "scandal" that resulted in nothing shows how desperate they are to find something to complain about.
Seriously, what was the damage from that scandal? What did the Obama administration gain from the "cover up"?
it has been investigated SEVEN TIMES by REPUBLICANS in congress and they found no damaging misconduct. Time to let it go.
