OP: Yea, the government would never lie.
But let's talk about a lie we know about for sure. We were told that the Benghazi was a riot gone wrong. Americans died and we got lied to. UNACCEPTABLE.
You are intentionally misinterpreting what was actually said for political purposes and for ideological shortcomings.
1) Everybody in the world already knows that the Video caused unrest throughout the entire region and that our Egyptian Embassy, was attacked as a direct result of an Anti-Islamic Video.
2) You say that you were told Benghazi was a riot gone wrong and that you were lied to. What you fail to say is that you are making that determination from a position of having the benefit of 20/20. There is a name for that - its called a
Displaced Presupposition (look it up). That's also called being Intellectual Dishonest. You can't time-travel. You have no ability to go back through time, pick a supposition and then apply to some future event. Doing so is by definition
circular reasoning. Anyone, who willfully engages in circular logic, is by definition irrational.
3) As stated before in another thread, it is holistically unreasonable to expect that information coming out of Benghazi after the attack, came from a singular source that was always giving the exact same message all the time. Different Administration Officials came upon different information and different times and in different locations. The don't all work out of the exact same office space, sharing the exact same speaker phone, as they take input from the field from the exact same source giving them the exact same information, so that they can all march out and give the exact same speech in exactly the same way. Only a hyper-partisan is going to expect that kind of unrealistic outcome.
They are all different human beings and they got information from different sources and different times immediately after the attacks, yet they were tasked with giving the public immediate answers mere hours after the attack.
Despite all of that, the general theme remained the same throughout all discussions on Benghazi, and only changed over time as new information became available to them and they were able to share their sources with each other. These people are not working in the same cubical together with just one phone and the information coming in was most assuredly very fluid.
Pay very close attention to this NON-U.S. Media News Report: (remove the unnecessary dots in the url)
h.t.t.p://w.w.w.youtube.com/watch?v=fHItObp7gGA&feature=relmfu
Clearly, Media Reports were streaming in that put the Video at the center of focus for the possible cause of the attacks. Read the banner in the RT video. What does it say? It reads:
U.S. Ambassador to Libya 'Killed' In Mob Attack On Benghazi Compound
So, you have instant reports in Non-U.S. Media about:
1) A violent reaction to this film
2) A Mob action
3) At least a dozen Libyan Security Forces personnel taken to hospital
This is why the information coming into the White House was initially mixed. These three (3) things directly contradict what Fox News has told you. It also explains why Susan Rice, first began discussing the matter through the lens that everybody on the ground was looking through, a Video.
The initial perception was very real and very correct based on what they knew. Non-U.S. Media, were reporting that it was a Mob Action that was connected to the Video. Later reports, showed that at least 150 heavily armed me caused some 20 younger individuals to stand in front of the Compound and
yell in protest that they were outraged about the Anti-Islamic Video that
"insulted the Prophet Muhammad."
So, if you have a crowd of people outside the Compound yelling about how upset they were about the Video - why would you concluded (at the time) that the attack was somehow not connected to the Video. Answer? You would not do that and the Administration responded accordingly - believing initially that the attacks did have something to do with the Video, because there were people standing directly outside the compound complaining about the Video.
Nobody knew that 20 person crowed was staged at that point - except the 150 heavily armed aggressors.
