Fox News’ James Rosen is reporting that newly declassified documents show that, minutes after the initial terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, the president was briefed on an “attack,” not a protest or a video. Rosen reports:
Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation’s top civilian and uniformed defense officials — headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama — were informed that the event was a “terrorist attack,” declassified documents show. The new evidence raises the question of why the top military men, one of whom was a member of the president’s Cabinet, allowed him and other senior Obama administration officials to press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two weeks afterward.
That member of Obama’s cabinet was then-Secrertary of Defense Leon Panetta.
Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee in February of last year that it was him who informed the president that “there was an apparent attack going on in Benghazi.” “Secretary Panetta, do you believe that unequivocally at that time we knew that this was a terrorist attack?” asked Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. “There was no question in my mind that this was a terrorist attack,” Panetta replied.
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#Benghazi "There was no question in my mind that this was a terrorist attack," Panetta replied.
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#SpecialReport -I'm glad you are focusing on #Benghazi. Fake story = cover for Obama's diminishing terrorism narrative prior to the election
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THANK YOU for you Benghazi story!! Looking like this goes to the TOP. @JamesRosenFNC
— ❌ Sue Smith (@SueSmith511) January 13, 2014
Imagine @NBCNewYork @ABC @CBSNews @CNN @msnbc_breaking r pouring over 450 pgs of #Benghazi docs. Can't wait 2 hear analysis vs #Bridgegate
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#Benghazi transcripts re-cofirm that Foggy Bottom got caught with its pants suit down. http://t.co/QsauyCunJT
— Porkopolis (@PorkBuster) January 13, 2014
.@BarackObama: You lied to the families who lost sons in #Benghazi. Never a video. You & Hillary looked parents in the eyes & flat out lied.
— arlene billson (@juneslili) January 13, 2014
Obama stood in front of the UN and Lied that #Benghazi attack was due to a video. How can he get away with this after facts prove he lied?
— ParkergirlUSA (@ParkergirlUSA) January 14, 2014
Bret Baier's Special Report breaking Benghazi news. So important Fox is out there doing what elite media refuses.
— The Curve Is Bent. Time to Free Us! (@NolteNC) January 14, 2014
Bombshell revelations in #Benghazi scandal today and what is the #StateMedia STILL talking about.. a traffic jam. Bias and hypocrisy prevail
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