Mark Hosenball
Reuters
10/23/2012
Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.
The emails, obtained by Reuters from government sources not connected with U.S. spy agencies or the State Department and who requested anonymity, specifically mention that the Libyan group called Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for the attacks.
The brief emails also show how U.S. diplomats described the attack, even as it was still under way, to Washington…
…The records obtained by Reuters consist of three emails dispatched by the State Department’s Operations Center to multiple government offices, including addresses at the White House, Pentagon, intelligence community and FBI, on the afternoon of September 11…
Read the entire article at Reuters.
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Update: Dump: Administration Delivers Subpoenaed Benghazi Docs Hours Before Debate
Rep Mike Rogers, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, appeared on WMAL in Washington DC with Brian Wilson and discussed the Administrations response tot he Al Qaeda attacks in Libya that killed four Americans including Amb. Chris Stevens. According to Rep. Rogers, files and documents that his committee had been waiting for were finally delivered yesterday at 5:00 PM, just hours before the final Presidential Debate that focused on foreign policy. “It certainly appears to me at at first blush that there was a a political interpretation and that’s always a dangerous thing. I think they put November 6th ahead of our national security.”
Update 2: Liz Cheney & Greta Nuke Obama/Clinton on Benghazi-Gate ~ 7 Hours of Hell
Update 3: With 2 words, Drudge evokes Watergate for Obama’s Libya troubles.
Update 4: EMAIL TO WHITE HOUSE at 6:07 PM on 9-11: “Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack”
Update 5: Obama went to bed
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