WASHINGTON (AP) — Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers Friday that classified intelligence showed the deadly raid on the US Consulate in Libya was a terrorist attack, but that the administration withheld the suspected role of specific al-Qaida affiliates.
The recently resigned spy chief explained that references to terrorist groups suspected of carrying out the violence were removed from the public explanation of what caused the attack so as not to tip off the groups that the US intelligence community was on their trail.
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So now we have a Democratic hack from California popping up with still more excuses for whatever happened to Ambassadress Rice's superflack appearance on 5 Sunday morning tv news shows with a false story about events and deaths at Benghazi, Libya. Who the devil is this Schiff guy? Last time I heard of somebody from that family, it was a fictional New York District Attorney in the long-running Law & Order tv drama. And the fictional DA seems a more believable source than this California hack. How does this Barry the O get people to do such shameful things for him?
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The best intel? Didn't Obama call it a terrorist attack on September 12th in the Rose Garden? Isn't that what he said in the 2nd debate?
The cover up begins to unfold.
This explaisthe pre-emptive strike on the Director's reputation.
Get the press all excited about a sex scandal and Libyan issues disappear.
Yes, nothing to see here
Yes, security should have been better at the consulate, but the GOP's continuing to try to keep the focus on that and to increase the magnitude of the mistake is not getting them any points with me. They need to spend more time solving the country's problems rather than just being obstructionist and focusing on the mistakes of others who ARE working on the problems.