McCain Once Offered Identical Assessment As Susan Rice On Benghazi Attack
Source: ThinkProgress
By Ben Armbruster on Dec 3, 2012 at 9:17 am
Just three days after the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said there were “demonstrations” at the U.S. diplomatic mission there and that the attackers “seized this opportunity to attack our consulate.” McCain also said during this Sept. 14 press conference on Capitol Hill that he wasn’t certain whether al-Qeada perpetrated the assault.
Yet McCain has been leading a smear campaign against U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice for essentially making the same assessment two days later... -snip-
SUSAN RICE: Based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in Cairo where, of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy — sparked by this hateful video. But soon after that spontaneous protest began outside of our consulate in Benghazi, we believe that it looks like extremist elements, individuals, joined in that — in that effort with heavy weapons of the sort that are, unfortunately, readily now available in Libya post-revolution. And that it spun from there into something much, much more violent.
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...McCain’s analysis of what occurred in Benghazi in the days after the attack on Sept. 14 mirrors Rice’s assessment....-snip-
MCCAIN: It’s hard to know exactly what took place and how long it was planned, and — I don’t have that information. I know very well that there were demonstrations, that there was a group of either al-Qaida or some radical Islamists who — about 15 of them, armed with RPGs and other lethal weapons, that seized this opportunity to attack our consulate. And it was an act of terror. It wasn’t an act of a mob getting out of control. We should understand that. This was a calculated act of terror on the part of a small group of jihadists, not a mob that somehow attacked and sacked our embassy.
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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/12/03/1270411/mccain-same-assessment-susan-rice-benghazi/
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even go further with an imagination about conspiracies. Especially when that same CIA chief provided the talking points, is caught in a scandal, and have conversations from a FOX surrogate about running for President in the GOP. I wouldn't even trust the Government in Benghazi because people make strange bed fellows. Even the purpose of that consulate can be questioned and why it was located there any way? I wouldn't call it an embassy if it was doing covert operations. One example would be funneling weapons or spying. You have to wonder when you have Generals, advocating entering other countries. If Mitt Romney had won, McCain would have who he wants in office to carry out his wars. That can be seen as political too. Of course all of that is just conjecture, like McCain is doing. There is no evidence to suggest so.
