From: WhoWhatWhy
By Russ Baker on Jan 15, 2014
The
continued finger-pointing between the GOP and the Obama Administration
over “what really happened in Benghazi” may be obscuring a much more
disturbing narrative—a story in neither party’s interest.
WhoWhatWhy’s discussion of that new possibility comes below, but first, here’s the background:
On September 11, 2012, a heavily armed group of more than 100 gunmen
destroyed the US consulate compound and a nearby CIA facility in the
Eastern Libyan city; ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans
died. The attack has been characterized as “the most significant attack
on United States property…since Sept. 11, 2001.”
Shortly after the incident, Susan Rice, then Obama’s UN ambassador,
claimed publicly that the uprising was spontaneous—a reaction to an
anti-Islam YouTube video that had just aired. She, then-Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton and others soon came under severe attack for
purportedly making a false claim to deflect attention from
administration security failures, and the blogosphere has continued to resound with the issue ever since.
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