No wonder Obama called Benghazi and "act of terror" on 9/12!

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Turns out, the White House KNEW it was an alQaeda terrorist attack TWO HOURS after it happened!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/24/us-usa-benghazi-emails-idUSBRE89N02C20121024

(Reuters) - Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.

The emails, obtained by Reuters from government sources not connected with U.S. spy agencies or the State Department and who requested anonymity, specifically mention that the Libyan group called Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for the attacks.

The brief emails also show how U.S. diplomats described the attack, even as it was still under way, to Washington.

U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the Benghazi assault, which President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials ultimately acknowledged was a "terrorist" attack carried out by militants with suspected links to al Qaeda affiliates or sympathizers.

Administration spokesmen, including White House spokesman Jay Carney, citing an unclassified assessment prepared by the CIA, maintained for days that the attacks likely were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film.
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PUT A FORK IN OBAMA, HE IS DONE!
 
So while the Consulate was under siege by Islamic terrorists, in the middle of a terrorist attack, Obama went to bed and let them fend for themselves, then... off to Vegas the next day for a fundraiser! ....But no video of him reading a goat book, so he's okay, right?
 
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_1...ry-have-helped-during-libya-attack/?tag=socsh

Could U.S. military have helped during Libya attack?

(CBS News) The closer we get to the election, the harder Republicans in Congress are pushing for answers to a big question: What really happened in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya last month that killed the U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans?

Some lawmakers are asking why U.S. military help from outside Libya didn't arrive as terrorists battered more than 30 Americans over the course of more than seven hours. The assault was launched by an armed mob of dozens that torched buildings and used rocket propelled grenades, mortars and AK-47 rifles.

CBS News has been told that, hours after the attack began, an unmanned Predator drone was sent over the U.S. mission in Benghazi, and that the drone and other reconnaissance aircraft apparently observed the final hours of the protracted battle.

The State Department, White House and Pentagon declined to say what military options were available. A White House official told CBS News that, at the start of the attack, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "looked at available options, and the ones we exercised had our military forces arrive in less than 24 hours, well ahead of timelines laid out in established policies."

But it was too late to help the Americans in Benghazi. The ambassador and three others were dead.

A White House official told CBS News that a "small group of reinforcements" was sent from Tripoli to Benghazi, but declined to say how many or what time they arrived.

Piecing together timeline of White House response to Benghazi
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Obama to Jon Stewart: Benghazi response "not optimal"

Retired CIA officer Gary Berntsen believes help could have come much sooner. He commanded CIA counter-terrorism missions targeting Osama bin Laden and led the team that responded after bombings of the U.S. Embassy in East Africa.

"You find a way to make this happen," Berntsen says. "There isn't a plan for every single engagement. Sometimes you have to be able to make adjustments. They made zero adjustments in this. They stood and they watched and our people died."

The Pentagon says it did move a team of special operators from central Europe to the large Naval Air Station in Sigonella, Italy, but gave no other details. Sigonella is just an hour's flight from Libya. Other nearby bases include Aviano and Souda Bay. Military sources tell CBS News that resources at the three bases include fighter jets and Specter AC-130 gunships, which the sources say can be extremely effective in flying in and buzzing a crowd to disperse it.

Rick Nelson, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former Navy pilot who worked in counter-terrorism, says such missions can be very risky. "A lot can go well, right, as we saw with the bin Laden raid. It was a very successful event," he says. "But also, when there are high risk activities like this. a lot can go wrong, as we saw with the Iranian hostage rescue decades ago."

Add to the controversy the fact that the last two Americans didn't die until more than six hours into the attack, and the question of U.S. military help becomes very important.

Sending the military into another country can be a sensitive and delicate decision. CBS News has been told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did seek clearances from Libya to fly in their airspace, but the administration won't say anything further about what was said or decided on that front.
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WoW... From CBS News, no less!

Talk about an October Surprise!
 
The TWO HOURS thing is a game changer. It was bad enough when they claimed it was 24hrs before they had any idea, and then spent two weeks blaming it on a spontaneous uprising. To think that Obama & Company KNEW it was a terrorist attack while the Ambassador was still alive, is alarming and shocking to me. To think he did absolutely nothing, and went on with his life as normal, seems almost... sociopathic!
 
Remember all the people telling me I was wrong when I flat said that this had nothing to do with that stupid trailer? Yeah... I feel vindicated.
 
Damocles said:
Remember all the people telling me I was wrong when I flat said that this had nothing to do with that stupid trailer? Yeah... I feel vindicated.
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We clearly see the sociopathy here, and why they attempted to claim they thought this was about a video. I thought it was odd when they jumped back to claiming Obama called it a terror attack in the Rose Garden, and that fat liberal bitch called out Romney in the debates, because they had taken such care to NOT call it a terrorist attack up until that point. Now we see what the whole "video" story was about, it was because they KNEW it was a terrorist attack and could have saved the Ambassador, but failed to act. So they've caught themselves in between the two positions, they claimed it was a spontaneous uprising to cover for the fact they didn't take action during a terror attack, then claimed the president called it a terror attack on 9/12, then back to claiming they didn't know for sure what had happened... they can't fucking make up their minds what the "story" is supposed to be.

Here we thought the "video" angle was just this administration not wanting to call them terrorists and this a terrorist attack, but it was to cover for the fact that they knew what it was and didn't take action. To me, that makes the lie 1,000 times worse, and it was already bad enough.
 
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