Obamas Shaky Libya Narrative

DonGlock26 · Sep 23, 2012

Obamas Shaky Libya Narrative

Sources say the attack on the Libyan ambassador was pre-meditated, with the possible collaboration of a Libyan politician. Eli Lake on the continuing collapse of the official U.S. line.

Ten days after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White Houses official story about the incident appears to be falling apart.

In the days following the killing of the U.S. ambassador and two ex-Navy SEALs, President Obama and top State Department officials portrayed the attack as a spontaneous reaction to an Internet video depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammad as a lascivious brute. The protests, White House spokesman Jay Carney said last week, were in response to a videoa filmthat we have judged to be reprehensible and disgusting.

Now there is mounting evidence that the White Houses initial portrayal of the attacks as a mere outgrowth of protest was incorrector, at the very least, incomplete. The administrations story itself has recently begun to shift, with Matthew Olsen, the director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, telling Congress on Wednesday that the attackers may have had links to al Qaeda and Carney characterizing the incident as a terrorist attack. (Hillary Clinton announced on Thursday that she was putting together a panel to look into the incident.)

But other indications that the White Houses early narrative was faulty are also beginning to emerge. One current U.S. intelligence officer working on the investigation into the incident told The Daily Beast that the attackers had staked out and monitored the U.S. consulate in Benghazi before the attack, a move that suggests pre-planning.

Whats more, two U.S. intelligence officials told The Daily Beast that the intelligence community is currently analyzing an intercept between a Libyan politician whose sympathies are with al Qaeda and the Libyan militia known as the February 17 Brigadewhich had been charged with providing local security to the consulate. In the intercept, the Libyan politician apparently asks an officer in the brigade to have his men stand down for a pending attackanother piece of evidence implying the violence was planned in advance. (Plenty of Libyans, of course, did try to protect the consulate. Many of those Libyans died in the gunfight fighting off the attackers, one of the officials said. But there were some bad apples there as well.)

President Obama addresses the attacks in Libya.
I think this is a case of an administration saying what they wished to be true before waiting for all the facts to come in, says one senior retired CIA official.

On the other hand, a U.S. intelligence official stressed that it was still early days for the investigation. It is important to accept that with events like this it takes time to figure out what happened and determine which data points are relevant and accurate, this intelligence official said. That process is happening right now. The National Security Council declined comment, and the State Department did not respond to requests for comment.

One other aspect of the administrations story appears shaky as well. Speaking to ABC News on Sunday, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice responded to allegations that there wasnt enough security at the embassy by saying, Tragically, two of the four Americans who were killed were there providing security. That was their function. And indeed, there were many other colleagues who were doing the same with them.

I think this is a case of an administration saying what they wished to be true before waiting for all the facts to come in.
Rice was referring to two ex-Navy SEALs, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, who died during the violence.

But two former special operators and a former intelligence officer, two of whom had worked with Doherty, told The Daily Beast that Doherty and Woodss job was not to protect Ambassador Chris Stevens. That job falls to Regional Security Officers or RSOs. During the fighting, some RSOs who were supposed to protect the ambassador apparently became separated from him.

Glen died for Tyrone and Tyrone died for Glen, one of the former special operators told The Daily Beast. They fought bravely, but they did not die protecting the ambassador.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/21/obama-s-shaky-libya-narrative.html
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The Obama admin lied early and they lied often about the assassination of a US ambassador. I said that this was a Big Lie attempt, and so it was. We have to throw this turd out in November.

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