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bobemac asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 9 years ago

Why is the Obama administration lying about Benghazi and trying to cover it up?

Update:

Go to C-span..

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Because they do not want to admit that the ambassador asked repeatedly for more security, and not only were they turned down by the state dept. , they had 13 security personnel removed.

    BUT, they have marines on duty in the Caribbean to guard the embassies there because it is far more dangerous there.

  • 9 years ago

    Having the consulate attacked on 9/11 by terrorists with links to Al Qaeda ruins Obama's speech that Al Qaeda is on the road to defeat. The agent who was manning the compound's close circuit TV's survived the assault and was debriefed in Tripoli the morning of the 12th. He told them that there was no protest, only a sudden attack at 9:40 PM. The Libyan guard who survived told the same story. Unfortunately, for reasons known only to Obama and Hilary Clinton, our State Department sat on this information until one day before the Congressional hearings. The State Department conference call is available on their website. In the conference call the State Department announced that they never felt that the attack was associated with a protest. That is because they knew a protest never occurred. Yet Clinton who obviously heads the State Department came out with the protest turned violent story for several weeks. Most people expect that the Congressional committee will ask Clinton to appear. It will be very interesting to hear why she used the fabricated story when her own State Department has officially acknowledged that they never accepted that story. We don't need to guess about this because we will probably get the full story from Clinton this week.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Like Obama's past, his administration covers-up everything. It's just SOP for them.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    they did not lie, they simply handed on the advice that they had on the time. there's no conceal up the two, each little thing you need to understand is on the popular public checklist, lots to chairman Issa chagrin.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Source.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    They're trying to pretend that it wasn't a planned attack

    Just like calling the Fort Hood attack "workplace violence"

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    maybe Hillary doesn't tell Obama/Biden everything

    they think there is peace and love throoughout the world

  • 9 years ago

    Because they have no clue about what to do on any kind of foriegn policy ! Obama just wants to be King of America and be left alone ! For the dingbats that have no understanding of what a source is ~~~ LIBYAN PRESIDENT SAYS EMBASSY ATTACK WAS A PLANNED TERRORIST ATTACK AND NOT A RESULT OF THE U-TUBE VIDEO AS WHITE HOUSE INSISTS

    09-17-2012 - Neil Munro - Daily Caller

    President Barack Obama jets off to campaign events Monday in the critical swing state of Ohio, even as Libyan officials and locals have shredded his defensive claim that a spontaneous protest against a Californian’s anti-Islam video caused the Sept. 11 killing of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. “The idea that this criminal and cowardly act was a spontaneous protest that just spun out of control is completely unfounded and preposterous,” Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif told the liberal National Public Radio network. Instead, the killing was a military-style attack, he said.

    That attack hit the poorly guarded group of diplomats, who had to be rescued by Libyan reinforcements. The Obama administration’s claim that the murderous Benghazi attack was a unpredictable byproduct of a spontaneous protest gives White House officials a short-term way to fend off media questions.

    Any investigation may create a damaging pre-election scandal for the president, who touted his ability in 2008 to build peace between the United States and conflict-prone Muslim countries.

    But accumulating media reports — and Libyans’ statements — suggest the administration severely underestimated the danger of jihadis in Libya, many of whom have seized weapons from the armory of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Gadhafi was killed in 2011 after President Obama launched a sustained air campaign to destroy his forces. Obama refused to send any ground forces to guard Libya’s weapons stockpiles, however, allowing jihadis to capture many shoulder-launched rockets, machine guns, anti-aircraft missiles and much ammunition. Despite the danger caused by roving Muslim militants in Libya, no U.S. Marines were assigned to guard U.S. diplomats there until after the Sept. 11, 2012 attack.

    Islamists “believe the United States is weak, and they are taking appropriate action,” he said.

    The discrediting of the administration’s explanation of the Benghazi failure prompted Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign to weigh in, five days after it had highlighted the administration’s “sympathy” for the Islamists’ complaints about the low-budget YouTube video.

    “The Obama Administration found itself facing serious questions about its record of leadership in the world, America’s waning influence abroad and the failure of its outreach efforts in the Middle East and North Africa,” Romney spokesman Ryan Williams said Sept. 16. The administration’s political problem was exposed Sept. 11, when Islamists began a week of deadly jihadi attacks and political turmoil. By week’s end, the Islamists were calling for curbs on Americans’ free speech.

    In California, just after midnight on Saturday morning, U.S. federal police questioned the film’s producer about possible parole violations, shortly after YouTube refused the White House’s suggestion to take down the video. On Sunday, Libya’s president refuted the White House’s claim that the Benghazi attack was a simple anti-video protest that went berserk.

    “We firmly believe that this was a pre-calculated, pre-planned attack that was carried out specifically to attack the U.S. Consulate,” el-Megarif said.

    In a separate interview with CBS, he said Libyan government forces had arrested 50 people, including foreigners, involved in the attack on the poorly guarded consulate in Benghazi that killed the ambassador and three other Americans. His description of the attackers as a organized, trained and heavily armed group matches reported statements from a wounded Libyan guard and the owner of the buildings used for the Benghazi diplomatic complex.

    On Sunday, Sept. 16, administration official stuck to their claim that the killings were a spontaneous result of an unpredictable protest. “What happened initially was that it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video,” claimed Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice. “People gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent. … Those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons, which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary Libya, and that then spun out of control,” she insisted on Fox News Sunday. She made the same pitch on four Sunday news shows.

    Source(s): That video-did-it claim also came Friday from White House spokesman Jay Carney, and from unidentified officials who spoke to several news outlets. That same day, the State Department announced it would no longer answer any reporters’ questions about the Benghazi attack. SOURCE: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/17/libyan-reports-s... house-claim-that-benghazi-attack-was-spontaneous-driven-by-anti-islam-film/
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Obama lies.

    And what do they mean, source? He ALREADY lied about it several times!

    lol

  • 9 years ago

    They know that their polices have failed.

    DTG

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