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Proof: State Dept knew immediately that Benghazi was jihad terror attack

May 2, 2014 11:06 am By Robert Spencer

Clinton-Benghazi-G1-620x362The most ominous and least-remarked aspect of this entire Benghazi fiasco is that the Obama wonks chose to cover up their arming of al-Qaeda in Libya, and the massive failure of their strategy that the Benghazi jihad attack epitomized, by blaming the Muhammad video. They were essentially saying that America’s First Amendment, our freedom of speech, is the problem, and that if we would just adopt Sharia blasphemy restrictions and stop saying things that Muslims might find offensive, all would be well.

“Bombshell: State Dept. Knew Benghazi was a Terrorist Attack,” by Keith Koffler, White House Dossier, May 2, 2014:

Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson has uncovered an email indicating that the State Department knew at a very high level, immediately after the incidents, that the Benghazi attacks were conducted by a terrorist organization affiliated with al Qaeda.

The email, sent by Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East Beth Jones, contradicts assertions made at the time by the White House and Secretary of State Clinton, Jones’ boss, that the motivation for the attacks was a video.

From Attkisson’s report, posted on her own website, sharylattkisson.com:

The email is entitled “Libya update from Beth Jones.” Jones was then-Assistant Secretary of State to Hillary Clinton. According to the email, Jones spoke to Libya’s Ambassador at 9:45am on Sept. 12, 2012 following the attacks.

“When [the Libyan Ambassador] said his government suspected that former Qaddafi regime elements carried out the attacks, I told him the group that conducted the attacks—Ansar Al Sharia—is affiliated with Islamic extremists,” Jones reports in the email.

There is no uncertainty assigned to the assessment, which does not mention a video or a protest . . .

Among those copied on the email: Deputy Secretary William Burns; Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman; Jake Sullivan, then-Deputy Chief of Staff (now promoted to national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden); Under Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy; Cheryl Mills, then-Secretary Clinton’s Chief of Staff (now on the board of directors of the global investment firm BlackRock); and Victoria Nuland, then-State Dept. spokesperson (now promoted to Asst. Secretary of State)…

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  1. Buraq says

    May 2, 2014 at 11:21 am

    ‘………., be sure your sin will find you out.’ The Bible (Numbers 32:23)

    Clowns!

    • Champ ✞ says

      May 2, 2014 at 2:35 pm

      And this …

      “For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.” — Luke 8:17

  2. Brian Hoff says

    May 2, 2014 at 11:35 am

    What proof?

    • duh_swami says

      May 2, 2014 at 12:35 pm

      Proof of lies Defender. People with nothing to hide, do not lie..

      • Tradewinds says

        May 2, 2014 at 2:28 pm

        “Brian Hoff” is Muslim “defenderof Islam,” so don’t worry about replying to him. Hi Muslim – how’s “than” doing? ! Now go worship your evil Arabian moon deity.

        • duh_swami says

          May 2, 2014 at 4:02 pm

          I have known defenderofIslam a long time. I once tried to help him get a bride. I tried all the prisons and mental institutions in the area bit didn’t have any luck, not one woman would go for it..

        • Tradewinds says

          May 2, 2014 at 4:46 pm

          swami – Heh!

        • Bezelel says

          May 2, 2014 at 6:28 pm

          @swami, you shouldah referred him to a barnyard,just don’t tell PETA.

    • Shane says

      May 3, 2014 at 9:36 am

      The memo is proof that the State dept. and the Obama administration knew as soon as 9/12 that the Benghazi attackers were Islamic jihadists. Susan Rice stated almost a week later on several TV shows that the attackers were reactiing to an anti-Muhammad video.

      Obama lied and 4 Americans lied. Obama did not order any military aid be sent to Benghazi.

    • gravenimage says

      May 3, 2014 at 10:44 pm

      “Brian Hoff” wrote:

      What proof?
      …………………..

      That would be here:

      The email, sent by Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East Beth Jones, contradicts assertions made at the time by the White House and Secretary of State Clinton, Jones’ boss, that the motivation for the attacks was a video…

      Too bad that the semi-literate “DefenderofIslam” has reading comprehension problems, as well…

  3. Decendantofacrusader says

    May 2, 2014 at 12:09 pm

    “What D-I-F-F-E-R-E-N-C-E does it make!”

  4. mortimer says

    May 2, 2014 at 12:12 pm

    What difference does it make? Obama’s people don’believe in free speech and armed Al Qaeda.

  5. duh_swami says

    May 2, 2014 at 12:39 pm

    The bull dozer of truth is at work. It takes a dozer to remove the layers of cover ups. Once they get to the bottom, they will find more than they bargained for.

  6. mark says

    May 2, 2014 at 12:44 pm

    Of course the video was never supposed to be part of the story. But there is a story not being told about the poster of this video. How come conservatives are not rallying behind this dude? How come we never hear anything about him?

    • duh_swami says

      May 2, 2014 at 4:11 pm

      There’s nothing to rally behind. he’s out, he said he was not intimidated and was going to make another movie…That’s it.

  7. mariam rove says

    May 2, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    God help us. Now she is going to be running the show after Obama? M

  8. veggiedog says

    May 2, 2014 at 1:06 pm

    Is this enough to 1. Bring down the current White House, and 2. Prevent Hillary from running for office in ’16?

    • Clare says

      May 2, 2014 at 10:14 pm

      The Actor President and Secretary of State both phony serial liars and manipulating criminals who performed their lines without blinking. When they left the funeral service after having lied to the Mothers and Fathers and family members of the Bengazi dead, did they collapse in their chairs, heave a sigh of relief and say, “Whew, we got though that one (high five). This calls for a Brandy.” …..not to mention the American people, the UN, their own government employees, and the list goes on. This is malice aforethought.
      Yes, one wonders if this is enough to do it.

      • Medina says

        May 2, 2014 at 11:48 pm

        They were and continue to be bolstered at every turn by a corrupt and complicit media complex. Can you imagine if just 10% of the news at jihadwatch.org were on mainstream channels every day?

        • veggiedog says

          May 3, 2014 at 9:50 am

          So is the News corrupt, incompetent, controlled by politics, have their own Progressive Agenda? I do not trust most sources and it is sad to say today that the media is not giving us the correct information, on important issues the are not giving us any information. This is why we have the degree of uneducated citizens today, they have no way, do not have the where with all to find out what is really going on.

  9. Salah says

    May 2, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    “Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, along with the rest of the regime players, murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens. It was a hit. It wasn’t incompetence. It wasn’t deer-in-the-headlights collective inaction. It wasn’t a kidnapping plot gone wrong. It was a hit.”
    Ann Barnhardt

    Read it all here:
    http://www.barnhardt.biz/2014/04/30/repost-and-update-on-benghazi-and-expendable-faggots/

    • duh_swami says

      May 2, 2014 at 4:19 pm

      That’s been my theory all along…A set up. By who and why is what we want to know,

    • RonaldB says

      May 2, 2014 at 10:22 pm

      Salah,

      I usually like your posts very much, but I read the posting by Ann Barnhardt that you linked, and it provides NO evidence for the assertion that Stevens was deliberately killed by cabals in the US government. Barnhardt pulls together lots of speculations and claims from the past few years, and weaves them together in a web of supposition.

      Barnhardt doesn’t prove Stevens was murdered and she doesn’t prove he wasn’t murdered. I’m afraid her column is simply speculation, and shouldn’t be cited as evidence for anything.

      • Salah says

        May 2, 2014 at 11:05 pm

        Thank you RonaldB. Indeed, Barnhardt doesn’t provide any tangible proof, what she does is putting facts together and drawing a more or less reasonable conclusion. You may agree or disagree with her.
        I, personally, trust her intellect, wisdom, courage and moral values and usually trust her conclusions, including this one.

  10. bobm says

    May 2, 2014 at 2:54 pm

    Were they arming anti Assad people and Iranians gave them a slap…..yes or no.

  11. Mirren10 says

    May 2, 2014 at 3:22 pm

    I hope Americans **remember** this when it comes time to vote in your next elections.

    Why isn’t the Republican Party kicking up a stink about this ?

    • Islamisdeath says

      May 2, 2014 at 4:06 pm

      Probably not. Our children soon to be of voting age are busily being indoctrinated at school. Many brain dead young women will vote for her just because she has a vagina. They dont need no stinkin information!

    • gravenimage says

      May 3, 2014 at 11:05 pm

      Mirren wrote:

      Why isn’t the Republican Party kicking up a stink about this ?
      …………………………

      Actually—thank goodness—they *have been*, Mirren. Democrats and other leftists are also sneering at their concern.

      Here are a couple of articles:

      “House GOP to form select committee on Benghazi attack”

      http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/05/02/house-gop-to-form-select-committee-on-benghazi-attack/

      You may already be familiar with this, but “GOP” (Grand Old Party) is a nickname for the Republicans.

      This article from Al Jazeera is predictably very sneery—but if you read between the lines it shows that the Republicans are getting to them:

      “Republicans relaunch attacks on Obama over Benghazi”

      http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/2/benghazi-house-investigation.html

      Republican response to the Jihad threat has been over all a rather mixed bag—but they’ve actually been pretty good on Benghazi. Most Republicans understand that this was a terrorist attack. I’m glad they aren’t letting this go.

  12. BlueRaven says

    May 2, 2014 at 4:49 pm

    I sincerely hope she doesn’t run for the O-Office – there are enough dopes who will vote for her.

    • mariam rove says

      May 2, 2014 at 5:52 pm

      you got that right. Specially here in the east coast where democrats out number republicans 6 to 1. M

      • veggiedog says

        May 2, 2014 at 7:10 pm

        She will try to run. I had a run in with a “Progressive” the other day. I am not a conservative or Progressive, never will be or vote for a progressive again, did it once and learned, also lesrned the true definition of Progressive in politics. Here i the point, the run in had to do with this person generalizing and calling Conservstives the most vile of names ( which is all they really ever do it seems). So when i countered that imo all politicians are suspect in his eyes i was now a Teaparty person, really.. So what i am trying to say is that many thst identify with Progressives are brain dead, think they know but know little. They are also opposed yo learning. While i do noe see many GOP candidates i like i do like Dr. ben Carson and Allen West. I hope if one of them can ren thst the minority community would just see a minority candidate and vote for them. I have no faith in voters that have voted Progressive researching and studying. Sorry if this sounds like a bigotted or racist post, it is not meant as such, it is an observation only.

  13. Angemon says

    May 2, 2014 at 4:58 pm

    Test

  14. Angemon says

    May 2, 2014 at 4:58 pm

    Testing

  15. pongidae rex says

    May 2, 2014 at 5:20 pm

    Keep this in a safe, dry place.
    If Ms. H. Clinton runs for president, it will be needed.

  16. Bezelel says

    May 2, 2014 at 6:35 pm

    I watched an interview of LtCol Schaffer back when the story was fresh. Everything he pointed out then has been ever so slowly coming out. obaMUD is a POS. hillary is a POS. and kerry is no improvement. Waterboarding everyone involved seems like a good idea.

  17. Kepha says

    May 2, 2014 at 6:38 pm

    The cynic in me says that the O administration, trying to make nice with strongly pro-Qaida groups, threw them a nice, meaty ambassador and three others.

    As for Shrillary Shrooo the Nincompooo, this is proof enough of her unsuitability for any high office of public trust. Unfortunately, she’s been all but anointed by the Tribes-R-Us, Leftist MSM.

    But I also think we need to demand to know what exactly was Amb. Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, when he was put in harm’s way?

    • Bezelel says

      May 2, 2014 at 7:07 pm

      This link is a good source.
      http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2012/10/tyrone-woods-where-the-fuck-is-the-spectre-.html

  18. RonaldB says

    May 2, 2014 at 11:13 pm

    The column by Debbie Hamilton is plausible, as is an alternative explanation she cites.

    We know that the US government is deeply involved in trying to topple the Syrian government. It is speculation that the Benghazi attack was carried out by Iranian agents, as Iran is an ally of the Syrian government.

    The big question I have never had answered, though, is why the US is actively seeking to overthrow the Syrian government. The Syrian government is a problem, just as a jihad-based Islamist country would be a problem. Removing the Syrian government would have the rather obvious effect of decimating whatever Christian community is left in Syria. So, what’s the motivating factor in tilting the US so dangerously towards intervening in Syria?

  19. Champ says

    May 3, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    They were essentially saying that America’s First Amendment, our freedom of speech, is the problem, and that if we would just adopt Sharia blasphemy restrictions and stop saying things that Muslims might find offensive, all would be well.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Exactly, Robert! …yeah this wrongheaded thinking is so backwards and dangerous, and on sooo many levels.

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