Marathon Pundit: AP: CIA found militant links a day after Libya attack

Friday, October 19, 2012

AP: CIA found militant links a day after Libya attack

Like his poll numbers, President Obama's credibility on the Benghazi murders continues to unravel.

Even the mainstream media is bailing on The One.

From AP:

The CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within 24 hours of last month's deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate that there was evidence it was carried out by militants, not a spontaneous mob upset about an American-made video ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, U.S. officials have told The Associated Press.

It is unclear who, if anyone, saw the cable outside the CIA at that point and how high up in the agency the information went. The Obama administration maintained publicly for a week that the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was a result of the mobs that staged less-deadly protests across the Muslim world around the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on the U.S.

Those statements have become highly charged political fodder as the presidential election approaches. A Republican-led House committee questioned State Department officials for hours about what GOP lawmakers said was lax security at the consulate, given the growth of extremist Islamic militants in North Africa.

Yesterday Obama told Daily Show host Jon Stewart about the Benghazi tragedy, "If four Americans get killed, it's not optimal." Which led the mother of one of the victims to retort, "My son is not very optimal - he is very dead."

Meanwhile, Charles Krauthammer is spot-on again.

Not wishing to admit that we had just been attacked by al-Qaeda affiliates, perhaps answering to the successor of a man on whose grave Obama and the Democrats have been dancing for months, the administration relentlessly advanced the mob/video tale to distract from the truth.

And it wasn't just his minions who misled the nation. A week after the attack, the president himself, asked by David Letterman about the ambassador’s murder, said it started with a video. False again.

Romney will be ready Monday.