Update: Question - will the Administration get
away with this lie. "The consulate was well guarded; we are on the same
page as the Israelis; forget the advance warnings - the attack of totally
spontaneous."
We Didn't Know (therefore we are not responsible)
Rice on This Week: “Our
current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is
that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated –
response to what had transpired in Cairo.”
ABC reported, Sunday,
that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice is denying that
the Libyan attack on our embassy was a planned event. The Administration is
fond of saying, “We had no actionable intelligence
that an attack was in the works.”
Geeeeesh.
The 10th anniversary of 9/11 was just around the
corner and the Administration saw no need to take defensively action.
Oh yes you did!!
In obvious rebuttal,
the Libyan president, Mohamed Yousef El-Magariaf, made this statement Sunday morning on Face theNation: "It was planned,
definitely. It was planned by foreigners, by people who entered the country a
few months ago. And they were planning this criminal act since their
arrival," Magariaf said.
Rice contradicts herself.
While Rice thinks she
has solved a problem when arguing that the Libyan attack was in “. . . . . response to what had transpired in
Cairo” earlier in the same day (12 hours
earlier), she has no explanation (nor was
she asked) for doing nothing. Understand
that she has admitted, in these Sunday
morning interviews, that the Administration
did have forewarning, albeit 12 hours.
If “9/11” and “Caira 12 hours earlier” meant anything at
all, they served as a clear warning that
the region was facing an explosive and immediately disturbing future.
I second that assumption: "They" did know
But the Libyan President was not the only official making it
clear that the US consulate had been forewarned
-- three days before the
attack. CNN has given this report:
Three days before the deadly assault on the United States
consulate in Libya, a local security official says he met with American diplomats
in the city and warned them about deteriorating security. Jamal Mabrouk, a member of the February 17th Brigade, told
CNN that he and a battalion commander had a meeting about the economy and
security. He said they told the diplomats that the security situation wasn't
good for international business. "The
situation is frightening, it scares us," Mabrouk said they told the U.S.
officials. He did not say how they responded. . . . . . (see the full CNN report)
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