The Obama Administration steadfastly denied that the death of Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was part of a planned terrorist attack and was an unfortunate part of spontaneous demonstrations against an anti Muslim film that no one has actually seen. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice supported a statement by White House Spokesman Jim Carney that,
This is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy. This is in response to a video that is offensive.
Rice expounded for almost two minutes that this was all about the insulting movie,
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This despite the fact that the President of Libya said that it was in fact a terrorist attack. In a separate statement Rice told the world that the President of Libya doesn’t have the intelligence resources the US has and didn’t really know what happened in his own country. Today we get the official word that not only was it a planned attack, but that the suspected leader of the attack was released from Gitmo and sent back to Libya to serve out the rest of his sentence.
Obama official: Benghazi was a terrorist attack
The Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was in fact “a terrorist attack” and the U.S. government has indications that members of al Qaeda were directly involved, a top Obama administration official said Wednesday morning.
“I would say yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy,” Matt Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said Wednesday at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, in response to questioning from Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) about the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
The only real question here is if Carney and Rice, and thus the President, were lying or if they are just that gullible, naive, and incompetent. Either way the answer is the same. They are not capable of doing their jobs and should either resign or be fired.
I’m not the brightest bulb on the Christmas Holiday Tree, but when these attacks happened last week I said from the beginning that none of this was spontaneous nor unplanned. Why did the Administration try to deflect the blame onto an individual and a movie? They put that man’s life in danger as well as the lives of the people who were duped into acting in it. That’s just irresponsible.
Incompetence from top to bottom is no way to run a country.
Interesting how that video remained up on youtube, when plenty others have been taken down.
So either the members of the ummah are irrational savages who are able and willing to commit murder, arson and riot over a video which is so mild it does not even breach youtube’s dhimmi guidelines.
Or the video was left up there for a reason. To use as an excuse, in order to help cover up what’s really going on.
There’s the dilemma …
Yep, and deNile is a river in Egypt too!!!
…or it could be that both (planned and spontaneous) are partially true. There was an attack planned to coincide with Sept 11th. There were spontaneous protests about the movie on that date; and the planned attack benefited from the chaos and distraction provided by those spontaneous protests.
As an aside: I absolutely support the filmmaker’s right to create his little video; but I am dumbfounded at the support the little dirtbag is receiving. Aside from the fact that he’s a convicted felon who violated his parole on identity theft charges, he is being sued for fraud by one of the actresses who appeared in the video. His video is the film equivalent of the “Piss Christ” that outraged so many of the conservatives now hailing the dirtbag filmmaker as a “hero”.
Since the film is so obscure, if you want to call it a film, that is, it’s hard to believe that it suddenly enraged people who probably didn’t know it existed. The evidence now points to the attack occurring a 9:30 at night and there not being any evidence of demonstrations of any type at that time in Benghazi. The “spontaneous” attacks elsewhere were very well coordinated.
I don’t know of anyone giving the “film maker” support for his film itself. People are pointing out that the media and liberals defended the artist of “Piss Christ” and told people who were upset to get over it, all in the name of the First Amendment. That’s all people are doing in this case. While he might be a dirtbag, he’s a dirtbag with First Amendment rights. Nor should the Government of the United States be scapegoating, arresting, or harassing him in other ways. That’s the point no matter how crappy the movie might be. What if President G.W. Bush had sent government agents to arrest Michael Moore?