The Intel That The White House Used To Explain The US Consulate Attack In Benghazi

The Intel Behind Obama’s Libya Line -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast

Why did it take eight days for the administration to acknowledge the 9/11 attacks in Benghazi were acts of terrorism? An unclassified briefing document provides new clues, writes Eli Lake.

For eight days after the attacks on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, government officials said the attacks were a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islam film. Now that officials have acknowledged they were a premeditated act of terrorism, the question some members Congress are trying to answer is why it took so long for the truth to come out.

Unclassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency suggest the answer may have to do with so-called talking points written by the CIA and distributed to members of Congress and other government officials, including Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The documents, distributed three days after the attacks that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, said the events were spontaneous.

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My Comment: There is probably some truth from GOP lawmakers that White House officials only wanted to see what they wanted to see .... and ignored all other evidence that Al Qaeda and/or an affiliated group were involved in the attack. Unfortunately .... with the FBI still not in Benghazi .... we will probably never know what exactly happened that resulted in the death of a US Ambassador and the first successful terror attack from an Al Qaeda group on US soil since 9/11. (i.e. the consulate is on US soil).