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"Within 24 Hours': When U.S. Intel in Libya Told Washington 9/11/12 Was Terror Attack
CNS News ^ | 10/14/12 | Terence P. Jeffrey
'Within 24 Hours': When U.S. Intel in Libya Told Washington 9/11/12 Was Terror Attack | CNSNews.com
CNS News ^ | 10/14/12 | Terence P. Jeffrey
'Within 24 Hours': When U.S. Intel in Libya Told Washington 9/11/12 Was Terror Attack | CNSNews.com
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Lindsey Graham (R.-S.C.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday that the U.S. intelligence community in Libya informed the administration in Washington, D.C., within 24 hours of the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that the attack had been a terrorist strike whose perpetrators included militia associated with al Qaeda.
Graham said the fact that the administration was still publicly declaring more than five days later that the attack may have arisen as a spontaneous protest indicated that either "they are misleading or incredibly incompetent."
"Well, the facts are there was never a riot," Graham told Bob Schieffer of CBS News. "The night in question, September 11, Ambassador [Chris] Stevens was being visited by the Turkish ambassador. There wasn't a soul around the compound. And the coordinated attack lasted for hours with al Qaeda-associated militia.