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Who Is Responsible for Benghazi?
by Roger L Simon
November 16, 2012
Apparently, David Petraeus doesnt just lie about his private life. He also at least airbrushes the truth when it comes to national security, telling the House Intelligence Committee that he always said Benghazi was a terrorist attack.
Rep. Peter King who attended both Petraeus testimony Friday and the former DCIAs briefing to lawmakers on Sept. 14 has a more jaundiced view:
Petraeus testimony both challenges the Obama administrations repeated claims that the attack was a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video, and according to King conflicts with his own briefing to lawmakers on Sept. 14. Sources have said Petraeus, in that briefing, also described the attack as a protest that spun out of control.
His testimony today was that from the start, he had told us that this was a terrorist attack, King said, adding that he told Petraeus he had a different recollection.
But never mind the self-serving shifting sands of the increasingly slimy general. The lede from the same Fox story is the important news:
Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified in a closed-door hearing Friday morning that his agency determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack that Al-Qaeda involvement was suspected but the line was taken out in the final version circulated to administration officials, according to a top lawmaker who was briefed.
Theres your smoking gun, as the saying goes. Someone, or ones, somewhere redacted that crucial line.
Who?
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Roger L. Simon » Who Is Responsible for Benghazi?
by Roger L Simon
November 16, 2012
Apparently, David Petraeus doesnt just lie about his private life. He also at least airbrushes the truth when it comes to national security, telling the House Intelligence Committee that he always said Benghazi was a terrorist attack.
Rep. Peter King who attended both Petraeus testimony Friday and the former DCIAs briefing to lawmakers on Sept. 14 has a more jaundiced view:
Petraeus testimony both challenges the Obama administrations repeated claims that the attack was a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video, and according to King conflicts with his own briefing to lawmakers on Sept. 14. Sources have said Petraeus, in that briefing, also described the attack as a protest that spun out of control.
His testimony today was that from the start, he had told us that this was a terrorist attack, King said, adding that he told Petraeus he had a different recollection.
But never mind the self-serving shifting sands of the increasingly slimy general. The lede from the same Fox story is the important news:
Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified in a closed-door hearing Friday morning that his agency determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack that Al-Qaeda involvement was suspected but the line was taken out in the final version circulated to administration officials, according to a top lawmaker who was briefed.
Theres your smoking gun, as the saying goes. Someone, or ones, somewhere redacted that crucial line.
Who?
[excerpt]
Read more:
Roger L. Simon » Who Is Responsible for Benghazi?