WASHINGTON (AP) — The deputy CIA director has told lawmakers that UN ambassador Susan Rice was provided with an unclassified version of what happened during the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya that later proved to be incorrect.
CIA deputy director Mike Morell briefed members of the House Intelligence committee on Thursday. Emerging from the session, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff said Morell told the panel that Rice was given an initial assessment that a spontaneous protest over an anti-Muslim video evolved into an attack on the consulate.
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What I find baffling is the view that government is two completely different things at the same time. On one hand, it is ruthlessly efficient and effective in orchestrating coverups of things like the JFK assassination that would involve literally hundreds to thousands of people over decades. On the other, it can't get out of its own way to even talk about a budget.
As far as I can tell, events like Benghazi unfold with snippets of partially reliable information drizzling in at all hours. The politicians, of whichever party is in power, do the same thing: try to create a plausible story on the basis of the existing information and change their narrative continuously to make themselves look as good as possible while trying to sort things out. In return, the opposition says the party in power is completely culpable and demands an investigation. More confusion and spin follows.
I do know this, though: the size of the investigation should be somewhat proportionate to the magnitude of the potential crime. If this warrants a Watergate size effort for the deaths of 4 people, we need to revisit how US involvement in Iraq (which has killed more than 4000 American soldiers and several hundred thousand to one or two million Iraqui's) and undertake a Nurenberg-like trial of those who set the events into motion.