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发帖数: 29846 | 1 by Ross Kaminsky
Following up on Jed Babbin's excellent article today on Benghazigate, Fox
News is reporting new and very interesting information this morning:
According to Fox, the FBI and National Counter-Terrorism Center briefed
members of Congress within 48 hours after the Benghazi attack that it was
likely the work "al Qaeda or al Qaeda-affiliated" terrorists.
Interestingly, and perhaps to eventually be seen as an unfortunate black
mark on an otherwise remarkable legacy, Fox also reports that CIA Director
David Petraeus had offered briefings suggesting that the attack "was more
consistent with a flash mob" and that "Petraeus seemed wedded to the
narrative that the attack was linked to a demonstration."
Democrats may lean on that part of the story, saying they were told by the
CIA that the version of the story blaming a video was credible. However,
given that the FBI and NCTC told a very different story (probably the day
before the CIA briefings), it was beyond unacceptable and irresponsible for
the administration to run with just the version of events which they hoped
was true. In effect, as former UN Ambassador John Bolton has said, the
administration's ideological blinders kept them from admitting the truth to
themselves, and caused them to lie to us. |
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