CNN: None Of Our Sources Corroborate Obama Admin’s False Libya Story

Why did it take eight days for the administration to acknowledge the 9/11 attacks in Benghazi were acts of terrorism? An unclassified briefing document provides new clues, writes Eli Lake.

@Greg:

Operatives within the Obama Administration knew something was coming. The President should have known also, had he not been shirking his duties, (Obama might have ignored it in his daily nat sec summary, we know he was skipping out on his Nat Sec Briefings and even after the attack did not meet with his Nat Sec staff until a blogger shouted the news out to the world). IMO, the fact that he never even considered increasing security before 9/11/2012 makes it a dereliction of his duty as CiC, and pure stupidity on the part of Hillary and Ambassador Rice.

American embassies in Africa had been a favorite target of Al Qaeda before September 11 and with the Arab Spring and the influx of jihadist fighters into North Africa, there was every reason to anticipate that an attack on the Benghazi consulate was coming.

During the summer a string of attacks had targeted consulates in Benghazi. While the American consulate was only struck by a bomb, the Tunisian consulate was overrun by a group of gunmen claiming to be protesting an art exhibit offensive to Islam. There were no shots fired and no casualties because the consulate staffers were absent that day.

The possibility that a Western ambassador would be attacked with heavy weapons had also made itself known that same summer when the British Ambassador’s convoy was attacked by an RPG in Benghazi. The Tunisian consulate and British convoy attacks together formed the template for the attack on the American consulate which was a larger and more sustained version of both of these attacks.

Everyone at the consulate and outside it, from Christopher Stevens to Sean Smith’s Internet pen pals, seemed to know that something was coming. Libyan security officials said that they gave three days warning to the United States. Diplomatic sources have claimed that the Obama administration had 48 hours warning and that the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security had even issued an alert.

Beginning on September 11, 2012, a coordinated series of attacks by Salafis took place across the Middle East. The timing, targets and tactics all lead to the inescapable conclusion that these were not spontaneous protests, but were attacks that had been planned for months in advance in anticipation of a pivotal calendar date.

Can you imagine?
The ambassador sent cables insisting that they needed MORE security.
OR allow them to withdraw.
But Obama is campaigning.
Couldn’t be bothered.
Reads the summaries of the daily briefings.
No input at all.
May be that the CIA was doing a secret gathering of some of the weapons Obama ”gave” to the Islamists/resistance of Gaddafi.
May be.
But so far we have not been gifted with that little bit of info.
Will it be a debate ”gotcha?”