WTF?

for using the Ambassador's personal diary against the family's wishes.

Position is going to be "we said the next day it was a terrorist attack, and we didn't want to give details because we like to be thorough".

However, the media is going to push this story hard. The problem here is that the admin did blame a video and there is no evidence right now that a video had anything to do with it. They need to produce some sort of email or back n forth that shows someone did mention the video may have played a role.

I think this has the potential to become BIG if the admin doesn't get out in front of it.

the Oklahoma City bombing was done by Muslims.

that the WH responded saying the emails were not official intelligence and they wanted to gather more information over time. Also, even IF some group or groups were taking responsiblity, it doesn't preclude the video from being involved in their decision or at least a significant catalyst. This is just continuation of the republicans to build a false meme about not calling it a terrorist attack. I visit several forums that have quite a few cons and no matter what you say or argue to them, they will not let go of the incompetence/cover-up story. I don't think it will affect most people who are open minded however.

All the e-mail said is that a terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack. There was no way of knowing the accuracy. The group, later, disavowed the claim on facebook.

On top of that, just a few days ago, they data dumped all the intelligence data, and it completely and 100% backed up what the White House had been saying all along. The intelligence community said it was because of the film and related to Egypt protests. This is in black and white, and the media didn't report it.

Good stuff.

Last night, I'm not that closely familiar with all the details of this story but did the terrorist group that first took responsibility then say disavow responsibility?

(I know I'm gonna get hit with this by my pro GOP co-workers today so I need to have my talking points!) : )

The e-mails provide additional insight into the Benghazi attack.

The first one, sent at 4:05 p.m. ET, or 10:05 p.m. in Libya, describes a diplomatic mission under attack.



The titles of these articles are blatant misrepresentations of fact. When you actually read them, they don't say anything.

investigation and they won't make any assumptions about any other details. Let the professional investigators finish their jobs.

The puke superPacs will flood them with money if they think they are sensitive to their cause. CNN sucks.

like I'd said in another thread earlier, let's theorize the worst:

Say that everything in this "story" is 100% accurate.

Even go on the presumption that President Obama himself had read it, knew about it, had been debriefed on it.

Does it demonstrate a breech of disclosure? NO, personally I appreciate that this president doesn't take the first report he gets, and runs to the public screaming "TERRORISTS". I appreciate that he responds appropriately, and awaits more solid information before approaches the American public with statements. Perhaps if the previous disaster that was in the Whitehouse had done the same, and actually waited for all the information to come in before sending the military into Iraq we could be a few trillion dollars less in debt at this time, and less the 4,287 dead solders, 30,182 wounded soldiers, and somewhere between 109,000 and 119,000 dead Iraqi civilians. (and these are just 2009 numbers, on my quick search I didn't see a more recent update)

So, at the worst, this proves that our President is guilty of waiting until he was sure of the information received before shooting his mouth off about it?? I say GOOD FOR HIM!

Someone needs to fall on their sword over the video comments.

If the admin would come out and say, "It wasn't the fault of our embassy, it wasn't the fault of the state department, it wasn't the fault of some video, it was the fault of terrorists. We will bring these terrorists to justice. They will share the same fate as Osama Bin Laden." Wouldn't that make this go away? We must stop feeding the media trolls by letting this thing fester.