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Originally Posted by zzzed
Jay Carney: You can make suppositions, but we prefer to have an in depth investigation, that assembles the facts, and then presents them (30+ seconds into Carney video).
So on one hand, Carney and the White House want to be conservative about releasing unsubstantiated facts, but on the other hand they whole-heartedly and hastily endorse the random uprising theory--which turns out to be wildly wrong!
Here's what Susan Rice said. Try to match this with your outrage.
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MS. RICE: Well, Jake, first of all, it’s important to know that there’s an FBI investigation that has begun and will take some time to be completed. That will tell us with certainty what transpired.
But our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous — not a premeditated — response to what had transpired in Cairo. In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated.
We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the embassy to — or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo. And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons, weapons that as you know in — in the wake of the revolution in Libya are — are quite common and accessible. And it then evolved from there.
- We are still investigating
- It started with a small protest in response to Cairo
- It was hijacked by extremists with heavy weapons
Really, what kind of mental gymnastics does it take to twist this into some conspiracy? She is saying right there that it was extremists with heavy weapons that attacked the consulate.