Thursday, October 25, 2012

Hillary on Benghazi Attack - "Posting Something On Facebook Is Not In And Of Itself Evidence"

Ask your lawyer what effect confessing to theft or murder on Facebook would have on your defense.

If she was instead insisting that the Facebook posting does not make it true, that is something I could agree with. It is however suggestive, especially given the timing of the claim.

This 'looking at everything' approach, I am all for that. What I am not for is the concerted effort to ensure that means nothing gets disclosed or revealed until after the election. It also brings back the question of what exactly they were looking at, regarding actual evidence, that led them to so forcefully push the video story.


Video embedded below.



http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/24/hillary-on-benghazi-just-because-a-jihadist-group-claims-credit-doesnt-make-it-so

"“Posting something on Facebook is not in and of itself evidence,” she says, responding to last night’s e-mail leak about Ansar al-Sharia taking credit for the attack. True enough, but that’s not the only link to AAS. As I reminded you yesterday, intercepts caught members of the group talking to members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb during and after the attack. Libyan eyewitnesses saw the group’s founder outside the consulate while it was happening; he later admitted to having been there while insisting that he was merely directing traffic. There’s plenty of reason beyond the early claim of responsibility on Facebook to think they were involved, but to watch Hillary here, you’d think the Ansar al-Sharia mention in yesterday’s Reuters bombshell was some sort of false lead based on dubious preliminary intel that had evaporated later as the fog cleared.
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Whole lotta offended terrorists in Benghazi that night, for some reason:

U.S. intelligence believes that assailants connected to al Qaeda in Iraq were among the core group that attacked the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, a U.S. government official told CNN.

That would represent the second al Qaeda affiliate associated with the deadly September 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

Previously, intelligence officials said there were signs of connections to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the North African wing of the terror group…

According to the official, others in the core group are suspected of having ties to the Libyan group Ansar al-Sharia, and many of them are believed to be Egyptian jihadis.

That’s three separate jihadist outfits participating. According to CNN, there were upwards of 40 attackers in the first wave. Free question for any members of the White House press corps who are reading: What’s Al Qaeda in Iraq doing in Libya?
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