A longtime Clinton confidant reportedly advised then-Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton two days after the 2012 Benghazi terror attack
that an Al Qaeda-tied group had planned the deadly assault and used a
protest as cover -- but despite this warning, Clinton's U.N. ambassador
went on to publicly claim the attack was "spontaneous."
The guidance from ex-Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal was contained in a
memo sent Sept. 13, according to The New York Times. It is the latest
documentation effectively contradicting the administration's early
narrative that the attack was driven by protests over an anti-Islam
Internet video -- and raising questions over why officials stuck to that
story for days.
According to the Times,
Blumenthal initially blamed "demonstrators" angry over that video for
the attacks. But the next day, he sent Clinton a very different memo.
According to the Times, Blumenthal told Clinton the attack was driven
by Al Qaeda-tied Ansar al-Shariah members who had planned it for a
month and used a protest as cover. He cited "sensitive sources."
"We should get this around asap," Clinton reportedly told an adviser in response.
Yet, despite this guidance, then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice would go
on several television programs Sept. 16 to claim the attacks were
"spontaneous," and not premeditated, and link them to protests over the
anti-Islam video.
The State Department would later admit there was no protest on the
ground in Benghazi that day. The role of the video continues to be
debated to this day, but a mounting body of evidence has emerged showing
multiple assessments that the attack was to some degree planned.
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