Benghazi: What's the Charge Again?

[A Theist]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/09...tail=email



No wonder republicunts hate facts. So inconvenient.

In the Rose Garden, Obama said: "No acts of terror" not "an act of terror" as you claim. You need to get your facts straight. In the Rose Garden Obama specifically called the attack "brutal" and "outrageous" but he never specifically called it "an act of terror". Just because he used the phrase "no acts of terror" in his speech doesn't mean he was calling it a terrorist act. He was referring to terrorists acts in the general (hence his use of the plural).

What is a fact is that the day after the attack, Obama agreed he is reluctant to call this specific act a terrorist act. In fact he admits he believes there were people out to target Americans from the start, yet his administration sent Rice out on the Sunday morning stump to portray this as a spontaneous uprising. Obama lied. Obama mislead people during the debate and Crowley and CBS gave him cover.

I remember when the "O" gave that little speech in the Rose Garden, 9/12/2012. He used the general term, "No acts of terror" and avoided using the specific term, "terrorist attack". Recently surfaced emails between WH officials and testimonies before House Committee members have shown that the administration knew almost immediately that the attack on Benghazi was not a spontaneous reaction to an anti-muslim you tube video, but rather an organized terrorist attack (which was carried out by an al qaeda affiliate organization). Five days after the Benghazi attack, (and well after it was known to the administration that the attack on our consulate was carried out by organized terrorists), Susan Rice appeared on five Sunday News talk shows insisting that the attack was due to a spontaneous reaction to a you tube video. If Barack really intended to mean "terrorist attack" in his Rose Garden speech, then why didn't he, Hillary, or other WH officials publicly correct Susan Rice when she was insisting five days later, 9/16/2012, that the Benghazi attack was a spontaneous reaction to a video?
For Barack to actually admit then in his speech in the Rose Garden that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, especially after he repeated throughout his campaign speeches that "Bin Laden is dead, and al qaeda is on the run", would have been devastating to his presidential bid.

IMO, Barack lied to win the election.