RUBIN: How the administration got in trouble on Libya – Right Turn – WaPo
By MB Snow at October 21, 2012 | 3:45 pm | Print
JENNIFER RUBIN, Oct. 21, 2012 –
I suspect, although we will know for sure tomorrow night, that President Obama will claim organizational incompetence in connection with acknowledging that the Libya jihadist operation was, well, a planned jihadist operation.
The Associated Press reports how quickly confirmation came that this was not a spontaneous mob action. The AP tells us that within 24 hours of the attack “the CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington that there were eyewitness reports that the attack was carried out by militants.” However, the report continues, “It is unclear who, if anyone, saw the cable outside the CIA at that point and how high up in the agency the information went. The Obama administration maintained publicly for a week that the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was a result of the mobs that staged less-deadly protests across the Muslim world around the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on the U.S.”
This has created a series of contradictions and questions about the president’s handling of the matter. (CNN, among other outlets, had an extensive report.)
Coupled with a New York Times report that a key suspect is sipping a ”strawberry frappe”in plain sight unafraid he might be “hunted down” by the United States. The entire episode threatens to drag down the president on the eve of his final debate.
There are at least three variations of what happened.
via How the administration got in trouble on Libya – Right Turn – The Washington Post.
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