{"id":39098,"date":"2013-12-31T08:34:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T13:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39098"},"modified":"2013-12-31T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T13:34:06","slug":"the-nyt-benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39098","title":{"rendered":"The NYT & Benghazi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day we talked about the New York Times faulty assessment that al Qaeda wasn’t involved in the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012 and that some poorly made YouTube video is at fault. Of course, we’re having this discussion because the public hasn’t been granted access to the reports on the attacks to begin with, but folks in the intelligence community dispute the New York Times article, according to the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

[Rep. Lynn A. Westmoreland, Georgia Republican] said The New York Times evidently spoke with many militants and other sources on the ground inside Libya for its article, but he got \u201ckind of a shock\u201d that it appeared the paper was making assertions without having interviewed any of the U.S. intelligence officials on the ground at the CIA annex in Benghazi when it came under attack last year.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Although transcripts of the testimony provided by intelligence officials during the October hearing remain classified, Mr. Westmoreland said that \u201cfrom their observation, it was a planned attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys just saw that the attackers had at least some type of training, or coordinated movements about where to go and what each person was going to do when they were on the ground,\u201d Mr. Westmoreland said. \u201cSo from that standpoint, it was a coordinated attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, he said, the overall assessment provided to the committee by the intelligence community \u201cjust leads you to believe, or to know that [the attackers] were al Qaeda-related.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, most people think that the New York Times manufactured this assessment in order to “clear the decks” of the issue for the expected run at the presidency by Hillary Clinton. The New York Times<\/a>‘ Andrew Rosenthal writes today in the Times that nothing could be further from the truth;<\/p>\n

Since I will have more to say about which candidate we will endorse in 2016 than any other editor at the Times, let me be clear: We have not chosen Mrs. Clinton. We have not chosen anyone. I can also state definitively that there was no editorial\/newsroom conspiracy of any kind, because I knew nothing about the Benghazi article until I read it in the paper on Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, he’s such a big deal at the Times, yet he didn’t know that their biggest story of the past few weeks was going to be in the paper. And anyone who doesn’t believe that the New York Times’ choice for 2016 wasn’t made in 2008, I have a bridge in New York City that I can sell you, cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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