Benghazi attack - Terrorists or unruly crowd?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by JBS...

Still feel this way today Finn... ?

Ps.. I thought we were supposed to connect the dots before an attack, not after.

I just find the whole politicization of the dead ambassador pretty distasteful.

[piece-itpete]

Heard on NPR this AM that the embassy had requested additional security previous.

Pete

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I just find the whole politicization of the dead ambassador pretty distasteful.

I agree. So does the dead ambassador's family. They're wondering why the FBI still has not been allowed access to the crime scene. Looks like it was partially delayed by "bureaucratic in-fighting" between State, DOJ and the FBI. But now they can't get "permission" to go to their own consulate? Yet journalists and locals continue access the site?

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/26/world/...ion/index.html

No one is politicizing the death of the ambassador. However, the administration's handling of this has been beyond inept. To point that out is not politicizing. Its being honest.

[barbara]

Nobody politicized the killing of the ambassador....
Well, except for Romney .....

Then again, there are some that consider him to be a nobody.....

[mezz]

Obama's cover-up was nothing but political. He's our cover-his-ass president. The ambassador died, Obama lied. It has unfortunately become an all too familair type of story for anyone who has had their eyes open over the past 3-4 years.

[barbara]

Originally Posted by mezz

Obama's cover-up was nothing but political. He's our cover-his-ass president. The ambassador died, Obama lied. It has unfortunately become an all too familair type of story for anyone who has had their eyes open over the past 3-4 years.

If you don't like presidents who lie, you must have really hated Bush!!!!

[mezz]

Bush seems to be Obama's excuse for everything. If Bush was so bad why do Obama's supporters try to justify everything Obama does by saying that Bush did it too? You'd think that he/they would have thought it important to set their bar a little higher, wouldn't you?.

[whell]

Originally Posted by mezz

Obama's cover-up was nothing but political. He's our cover-his-ass president. The ambassador died, Obama lied. It has unfortunately become an all too familair type of story for anyone who has had their eyes open over the past 3-4 years.

I'm not sure i'm willing to call the handling of events in Libya politically motivated. There will always be some level of political calculation in how a government acts, or interacts with other countries. To suggest that no politics at all has influenced the aftermath in Libya would be naieve.

One has to wonder about the apparent lack of any proactive response to the buildup of a militant presence in Libya, and the apparent lack of urgent response to requests for additional security by State Dept personnel in Lybia. One has to wonder why the consulate has not been secured - it is a crime scene, isn't it? One wonders why the investigation by the FBI is being conducted from afar. One has to wonder why the administration continued to push the story about the stupid move while they had mounting evidence to the contrary.

Frankly, the response seems surreal to me, and that's the kindest thing I can say about it.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by mezz

Obama's cover-up was nothing but political. He's our cover-his-ass president. The ambassador died, Obama lied. It has unfortunately become an all too familair type of story for anyone who has had their eyes open over the past 3-4 years.

There's another possibility, of course. If the Administration had come out with the information that the attack in Libya was perpetrated by terrorist militia groups rather than just an extremely unruly mob it would have had the effect of revealing any intelligence (and the possible sources for it) we might have had and also compromised any possible military response.

This is completely the product of my own imagination but it's very plausible.

John

[piece-itpete]

Whell, that's my problem too. It's becoming increasingly clear that we knew there were issues. An American is dead, there should be consequences. That's not politics, that's responsibility, my take. Not getting the FBI in there, that's politics.

If it were Bush there'd be bloody murder screamed everywhere.

Pete