{"id":32186,"date":"2012-09-29T09:40:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T13:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32186"},"modified":"2012-09-29T09:40:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T13:40:03","slug":"that-shifting-benghazi-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32186","title":{"rendered":"That shifting Benghazi story"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> slavishly recounts the excuses offered to Congress by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. in regards to the time frame that was eaten up by this administration arriving at the truth with the American people in regards to that terrorist attack on the consulate in Benghazi; <\/p>\n

Shawn Turner, a spokesman for Clapper, said U.S. agencies have altered their assessments based on intelligence that has emerged through an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the immediate aftermath, there was information that led us to assess that the attack began spontaneously following protests earlier that day at our embassy in Cairo,\u201d Turner said. That information was conveyed to administration officials as well as members of Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, you know, I’d probably swallow that it was an ongoing investigation of muddy circumstances, if I didn’t already know that not one US investigator has been on the scene to date. Not because they’re incompetent, but because the circumstances in the neighborhood remain dangerous. But, I’m curious as to how “intelligence…emerged” when there were no US investigators from whom to extract an assessment. And so, what intelligence could have emerged which shifted the assessment of the administration that they didn’t already have from the Libyan government in the first few hours after the attack? <\/p>\n

But analysts have since \u201crevised our initial assessments to reflect new information indicating that it was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by extremists,\u201d Turner said. \u201cSome of those involved were linked to groups affiliated with, or sympathetic to al-Qaeda.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s what the Libyans said initially. I guess the Administration was afraid to admit that actual terrorist attack had happened during their watch. Like they’ve done with almost every terrorist attack against the US since 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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