Report: Within 24 Hours Dozens Of U.S. Intelligence Reports Suggested Al Qaeda Militants Were Responsible For The U.S. Consulate Attack In Libya

The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Photo: Mustafa El-Shridi/Reuters

U.S. Had Early Indications Libya Attack Tied To Organized Militants -- Reuters

Within hours of last month's attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, President Barack Obama's administration received about a dozen intelligence reports suggesting militants connected to al Qaeda were involved, three government sources said.

Despite these reports, in public statements and private meetings, top U.S. officials spent nearly two weeks highlighting intelligence suggesting that the attacks were spontaneous protests against an anti-Muslim film, while playing down the involvement of organized militant groups.

It was not until last Friday that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's office issued an unusual public statement, which described how the picture that intelligence agencies presented to U.S. policymakers had "evolved" into an acknowledgement that the attacks were "deliberate and organized" and "carried out by extremists."

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My Comment: As I said in an earlier post .... through drips and drabs we are learning more and more on how the White House responded to the attack .... more specifically .... for their own reasons they decided to spin a different and misleading narrative to the American public.