"The Innocence Of Muslims"? Try "The Guilt Of Terrorists"
It seems the State Department has now pulled back on yet another one of their claims -- the convenient one that the murderous Muslims who slaughtered Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were motivated by the amateurishly made YouTube trailer. From the HuffPo:
The deadly September attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya was not precipitated by an anti-American protest, as had originally been reported, the State Department disclosed Tuesday night. According to reports from ABC and the Associated Press, the State Department now acknowledges that "gunfire and explosions near the front gate" were the first signs of danger precipitating the attacks that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.This revelation stands in contrast to the story originally reported by the Obama administration and others, who claimed that a protest against the anti-Islam film "The Innocence of Muslims" outside the American consulate was co-opted by violent extremists.
See the chronology of the attack at the link.
I do believe lying is now a prerequisite for a Civil Service job.
MarkD at October 10, 2012 6:25 AM
I'm kind of enjoying watching all of the finger-pointing here. The State Department is now claiming that they never said that in the first place -- that it came from the White House. The problem is that the statement is entirely consistent with current State Department philosophy. However, since one of their own died, that makes it different. They're willing to pass off leftist claptrap when it's only the lives of ordinary Americans at stake, but when it's their own lives at stake, they want measures that actually work.
Cousin Dave at October 10, 2012 8:37 AM
just wait, just wait - pretty soon they will claim that it was all Bush's fault.
Charles at October 10, 2012 9:40 AM
Fast work, taking only four weeks to acknowledge what everyone else knew in less than two days.
And has any MSM outlet mentioned that a group of actual Libyan citizens gathered outside the Islamist (as opposed to Islamic) group HQ and embarrassed them into leaving the country? The Atlantic Wire (not The Atlantic magazine had pictures.
John A at October 10, 2012 12:19 PM
The Obama administration and the State Department political appointees put out the BS about it being related to the video.
The State Department bureaucrats, the day-to-day worker bees, have been off the record from day one saying Benghazi was a terrorist attack.
Obama and crowd are hoping that the national media can quietly drop it for the net thirty days, or if it does show up, it is dismissed because people remember the first five days after 9/11/12 and aren't noticing much anymore.
Jim P. at October 10, 2012 7:01 PM
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