Secretary Clinton was clear immediately after the incident that this was a separate issue than what was occurring in Egypt. I know because I blogged that fact. She stated the attack itself was a result of militants and not demonstrators.
While the GOP is attempting to make hay out of attack, the State Department was stating the facts clearly. I blogged it right here. I knew when the GOP started their banter they were wrong, but, they and some media were determined to lie about it. Secretary Clinton knew exactly what happened and it was a separate incident all together than what was occurring in Egypt.
Tuesday, Oct. 09, 2012
By LARRY MARGASAK and BRADLEY KLAPPER
WASHINGTON — The State Department (click here) says it never concluded that an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya was simply a protest gone awry, a statement that places the Obama administration's own foreign policy arm in sync with Republicans.
That extraordinary message, appearing to question the administration's initial description of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, came in a department briefing Tuesday - a day before a hearing on diplomatic security in Libya was to be held by the Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee....
...Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Republican lawmakers have increasingly sharpened their criticism of the administration's initial explanation of the attack. They said they never accepted the original explanation....
Officials tell how ambassador Chris Stevens was trapped in safe-room as assailants burnt the compound down (click here)
By EDDIE WRENN
This time last month, it was business as usual at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
A day later, ambassador Chris Stevens and several agents were dead, in an attack which was as brutal as it was deadly.
Officials have now described the overnight attack, which saw agents trapped in the burning compound before finally speeding away as attackers threw grenades and sprayed their armoured vehicle with gunfire from AK-47 assault rifles from a distance of two feet.
Meanwhile, the ambassador was locked in a safe-room as the compound filled with flames.
When the decision was made to escape the diesel-heavy smoke, it was too late, and Stevens never made it out....
