A spokesman for the U.S. State Department told reporters Friday afternoon that it would no longer answer questions about the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed America’s ambassador and three others.
RT @TomDickson: Wow -> State Department: Stop asking us about the Benghazi attack – http://t.co/LI5q92jV @NolteNC @DLoesch @michellemalkin
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 15, 2012
This is pathetic. RT @BuzzFeedPol: RT @joshrogin: State Department: Stop asking us about the Benghazi attack http://t.co/9zGI1dCN”
— Brit Hume (@brithume) September 15, 2012
How is this ok? "State Department: Stop asking us about the Benghazi attack": http://t.co/xJ7BpJQw via @foreignpolicy @joshrogin
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) September 15, 2012
Foreign Policy magazine quotes State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland as saying:
I’m going to frustrate all of you, infinitely, by telling you that now that we have an open FBI investigation on the death of these four Americans, we are not going to be in a position to talk at all about what the U.S. government may or may not be learning about how any of this this happened — not who they were, not how it happened, not what happened to Ambassador Stevens, not any of it — until the Justice Department is ready to talk about the investigation that’s its got. So I’m going to send to the FBI for those kinds of questions and they’re probably not going to talk to you about it.
Until the Justice Department is ready to talk?
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I'm sure the Department of Justice will tell us all about the Benghazi attack right after they get back to us about Fast & Furious.
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 15, 2012
State Dept refuses to answer any questions about Benghazi http://t.co/poXiZxfn Meanwhile, 8000 miles away, FBI grills video maker.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 15, 2012
https://twitter.com/icrewhelos/status/247081274022428674
Asked if silence from the State Department would only allow misinformation to spread unchecked, Nuland reportedly replied, “I will do my best to get that information to you, but I have to respect the fact that this is now a crime scene.” Is that a crime scene in the same sense that the 2011 Fort Hood massacre was a scene of “workplace violence”? Will the media bother to ask?
Pretty sure the lapdog media will comply with State Dept and WH demand that they stop asking about the deadly attack in Benghazi.
— WUHAN!!! I Got You All In Check! (@Pqlyur1) September 15, 2012
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