Benghazi attack: Why the White House changed its story

mlurp · #1 (**permalink**) 10-06-2012, 03:29 PM

I keep hearing several top admin. officials try to change this bit of news. To avoid looking bad at this time. Yet while I don't have access to the reports the Congress and it's committee that will look into it has data they say was asked for before the attack.
Several request for more security.

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.Benghazi attack: Why the White House changed its story

President Obama had to reassess his view of what caused the attack in Libya that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, raising questions about whether the White House has a solid grasp on the angry convulsions rocking the Middle East.
By Patrik Jonsson | Christian Science Monitor – Sat, Sep 22, 2012.

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President Obama has been forced to reassess his view of what caused the attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, raising questions about whether the White House has a solid grasp on the underpinnings of the angry convulsions rocking the Middle East and the impact of the so-called “Cairo doctrine” laid out by Obama shortly after he took office in 2009.

The White House initially laid the blame for the attack, as well as dozens of other protests that continue to roil the Mideast, on a YouTube clip from a movie called “The Innocence of Muslims” insulting of the Prophet Mohammed. White House spokesman Jay Carney first said the attack came “in response to … a film that we have judged to be reprehensible and disgusting.”

But this week, Mr. Carney changed the White House position and called the killing of Ambassador Stevens and three more diplomatic personnel a “terrorist attack.” In a TV interview Friday, Obama added that radical Libyan factions had used the movie as an “excuse” for a sophisticated incursion.

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To be sure, the events in Benghazi are just now starting to emerge from the “fog of war” as an official State Department investigation is underway to determine the extent, and cause, of the security breach. But one growing perception in the Middle East is that the murder of Ambassador Stevens and three other embassy personnel may have been a revenge killing by a group known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb that has been exploiting the power vacuum in Libya.

While the White House may have been under pressure to say something concrete about the Benghazi attack before more details were known, the late acknowledgement of a terror attack suggests to some that the Obama administration has struggled to understand the dynamics of the tumult.

In the case of the Benghazi attack, “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,” a senior retired CIA official told the Daily Beast.

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AZRWinger · #2 (**permalink**) 10-07-2012, 08:12 AM

The OA reacted to this bad news just like it did to any other bad news, blame somebody or smething else, tsunami, Wall street, oil companies and of course Republicans.

Attila the Sooner · #3 (**permalink**) 10-15-2012, 10:12 PM

Benghazigate

saltwn · #4 (**permalink**) 10-16-2012, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Attila the Sooner

Benghazigate

cnredd · #5 (**permalink**) 10-16-2012, 02:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Attila the Sooner

Benghazigate

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Originally Posted by saltwn

I agree salty...

I roll my eyes, too, because they're incomparable...

In Watergate, unlike Benghazi, NO ONE DIED, making what happened in Benghazi immeasurably worse than Nixon...

Manitou · #6 (**permalink**) 10-16-2012, 09:06 AM

Obama's Benghazi Massacre sounds like an excellent name for this piece of history.

Coyote · #7 (**permalink**) 10-16-2012, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

I agree salty...

I roll my eyes, too, because they're incomparable...

In Watergate, unlike Benghazi, NO ONE DIED, making what happened in Benghazi immeasurably worse than Nixon...

In Watergate, unlike Benghazi, there was illegal activity actively conducted from the President on down, and a cover up.

Big difference.

faithful_servant · #8 (**permalink**) 10-16-2012, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Manitou

Obama's Benghazi Massacre sounds like an excellent name for this piece of history.

"Massacre" makes it sound like hundreds of people got killed, this was just four people. How about the "Obama Benghazi Death Squad Killings"?

Coyote · #9 (**permalink**) 10-16-2012, 10:23 AM

How about we go back to blaming Bush for 9/11

Manitou · #10 (**permalink**) 10-16-2012, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by faithful_servant

"Massacre" makes it sound like hundreds of people got killed, this was just four people.

Like the Boston Massacre, 1770, eh?

Also anything the incompetent one does is a massacre of common sense.

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