U.S. Description Of Benghazi Attacks Changes Again

The blaze at the US consulate in Benghazi after it was attacked by an armed group on September 11, 2012. Photograph: Reuters/Esam Al-Fetori Photograph: ESAM OMRAN AL-FETORI/REUTERS

U.S. Description Of Benghazi Attacks, At First Cautious, Changed After 3 Days -- McClathcy News

WASHINGTON — In the first 48 hours after the deadly Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic outposts in Libya, senior Obama administration officials strongly alluded to a terrorist assault and repeatedly declined to link it to an anti-Muslim video that drew protests elsewhere in the region, transcripts of briefings show.

The administration’s initial accounts, however, changed dramatically in the following days, according to a review of briefing transcripts and administration statements, with a new narrative emerging Sept. 16 when U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice asserted in a series of TV appearances that the best information available indicated that the attack had spun off from a protest over the video.

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My Comment: Many want this story to die .... but .... McClatchy is right, because this story continues to change it will continue to be part of the discussion and part of the political campaign. Why is the White House doing this .... I suspect at the beginning they had a perception that it had become political, and responded accordingly.

Update #1: This is not good .... talk about twist to the story .... Day after Libya attack, CIA found militant links -- USA Today/AP

Update #2: Not surprisingly .... with all of this clumsiness over explaining Benghazi, President Obama is losing his foreign policy edge in front of the American public.