The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee charged that the Obama administration is hiding behind the undefined term “intelligence community” in deflecting blame for the Benghazi attack.
“I want a comprehensive timeline showing all the documents, all the cable traffic, all e-mails, all the conversations held leading up to September 11th, and what happened on September 11th, as to why they concluded this was caused by a pornographic video, and arose out of a demonstration when there was no demonstration, and in fact, the video had no impact. What information they got after that caused, which them to change their mind,” said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) on Fox.
“They’re throwing out this term, ‘the intelligence community.’ I want to know who that is. I want to know — if there were mistakes made, I who made them? I want to find out why the president didn’t ask questions.”
The chairman said President Obama’s defense at the debate tonight will likely by “unacceptable.”
“It’s not just an amorphous group called the intelligence community,” King said. “For instance, the State Department itself had people on the scene in Benghazi that night. Did Susan Rice speak to them? Did the president find out what they saw that night?”
“Did he ask the State Department if they had any videos as to what occurred at the consulate that night? Did he ask, why after all these threats leading up to September 11th, talking about terror attacks, how could they now be saying, it was not a terror attack?” he continued.
“So, I think they’re hiding behind the term ‘intelligence community.’ To me it shows that the president did not look into what happened, he did not inquire into what happened. He was willing to look at something face value.”
How is it that CNN was calling it an attack by an AQ affiliate the next day, but the White House stuck with the “spontaneous mob”, even though none of the mobs anywhere were spontaneous.
The White House had to deny that it was an AQ attack. If they admitted the truth, they would have to admit that their middle-east policy was a failure. No one at the White House was man enough to tell us the truth.
Right. Blame the “intelligence community”, after you skip all their briefings.
Good call on that weasel wording. The average Joe will think the information came from career CIA personnel, but it probably comes from political appointees that can vaguely be described as part of the “intelligence community”.
Here is a cogent explanation of the abject failure of Obama’s foreign policy, any discussion of which of course, is what this Administration and its allies in the MSM are so desperate to avoid.
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2012/10/libya-jordan-and-obamas-guidin.php
Heres hoping Romney gets a few clear points in, without CBS obsuring them.
Another take, well summarized:
http://www.israpundit.com/archives/50106