Not only did I see the debate but I was so dumbfounded by both Obama's claim that he had called the attack in Bengazi a terrorist attack on September 12th and Candy Crowley's assertion that was indeed the case that I immediately went back and checked the transcript of Obama's Rose Garden speech. You see, I saw it the first time and I didn't recall Obama calling it an attack by terrorists. I remember the heat that both he and other members of his Administration took BECAUSE they refused to call it a terrorist attack. So like I said, I went back and revisited the President's speech that day and I STILL don't see where you think it is that he referred to the attack on the Embassy as a terrorist attack. I'm sorry but it's just not there, DESPITE what Candy Crowley erroneously stated.
Did Barack Obama say the word "terror" in a speech that day? Yes...yes he did. He used that word once while talking about the first 9/11 attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the brave men and women that had given their lives to defend this country stating that no "acts" of terror would sway us from that duty. That was not a declaration that the Bengazi attack was carried out by terrorists because at that point the Obama Administration was already declaring that what happened that night was a result of the YouTube video inciting a mob to spontaneous violence...a narrative that they would continue to expound and expand on for the next week. You had Hilary Clinton declaring it was due to the YouTube video...you had Susan Rice declaring the YouTube was the culprit...and you had Barack Obama himself making that assertion. Mind you, they were doing this even though streaming video from that night showed no crowd of protesters before the attack and the CIA analysis of the attack stated that it was not a spontaneous attack by protesters but was believed to be a terrorist attack by an Al Queda affiliated terrorist group in Libya.
What's become painfully obvious, Candy is that one of two things took place following that attack...neither of which speaks very highly of this Administration's handling of the situation. Either they chose to disregard the intelligence information (including video tape) that said this had nothing to do with any video on YouTube, thus showing themselves to be hopelessly out of touch with the reality of what's going on in the Middle East...or they deliberately decided to lie to the American people a month before the election because having one of our Ambassadors killed by Al Queda on 9/11 might show their Middle East strategy to be coming apart at the seams.
