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Graham: U.S. Intel Community in Libya Told Washington 9/11/12 Was Terror Attack ‘Within 24 Hours’
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Lindsey Graham (R.-S.C.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the U.S. intelligence community in Libya informed the administration in Washington, D.C., within 24 hours of the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that the attack had been a terrorist strike whose perpetrators included militia associated with al Qaeda.
Graham said the fact that the administration was still publicly declaring more than five days later that the attack may have arisen as a spontaneous protest indicated that either “they are misleading or incredibly incompetent.”
“Well, the facts are there was never a riot,” Graham told Bob Schieffer of CBS News. “The night in question, September 11, Ambassador [Chris] Stevens was being visited by the Turkish ambassador. There wasn’t a soul around the compound. And the coordinated attack lasted for hours with al Qaeda-associated militia.
“My belief is that that was known by the administration within 24 hours,” said Graham. “And, quite frankly, [U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations] Susan Rice, on your show on September 16, the president on the 18th, and the 25th, kept talking about an attack inspired by a video. They`re trying to sell a narrative, quite frankly, that the Mid-East, the wars are receding and al Qaeda`s been dismantled, and to admit that our embassy was attacked by al Qaeda operatives and Libya leading from behind didn’t work. I think undercuts that narrative. They never believed the media would investigate. Congress was out of session, and this caught up with them.
“I think they have been misleading us,” said Graahm, “but it finally caught up with them.”
AbigailAdams
October 15th, 2012
I think it’s much worse than that and at least one of the Oversight members asked Kennedy if he was given or was part of any conversion about the blind sheik. I listened again last night to the Oversight committee video and that was pointedly brought up. Kennedy vehemently denied that, but he’s denied some other things too. Also in the hearings Lamb said that the State Dept was in real time contact with someone at the consulate, which means they knew what was happening while it was happening and that there was no rioting mob.
dba_vagabond_trader
October 15th, 2012
Isn’t Miz Lindsay Graham the person who mused on restricting our freedom of speech? Why yes, yes he is that person. Kind of changed his tune here:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/04/rino-lindsey-graham-freedom-of-speech-is-a-great-idea-but-were-at-war-video/
Joe
October 15th, 2012
Graham is up for a tea party challenge in 2014. Lots of people want to get rid of him, but looks like the old Charlotte, S.C. money keeps him up there. He needs to be defeated. Think I saw it on Moonbattery that he was a “pickle puffer” too. Never had heard that. He also might have a little too much sugar in the tank.
Anonymous
October 15th, 2012
isn’t it amazing that ol’ purplelips flimsy grahamesty starts to give the appearance of being even SLIGHTLY conservative in order to win reelection (or “in sympathy” with senators that ARE up for reelection) to the rinoceros party – you know, to TUFF on terror??
seriously, who does she think she kiddin
subterfuge in south carolina
jus askin yo
October 15th, 2012
meh, that was me