It's in context. He called it a terror attack the very next morning. When our intelligence community pushed the video protests after that, the administration echoed the intelligence. When the CIA reassessed the motive behind the attack, the administration relayed that to the public. None of which alters the context of Obama's initial statement in the Rose Garden.In speaking of the attack in Benghazi, Obama said ...OS 10329159The fact is...the White House kept something that was in the original talking points that turned out to be completely wrong because it fit the narrative that they were going to put out to diffuse the fallout from Benghazi.
Why did Obama refer to it as an act of terror on the very next day after the attack? Why did Susan Rice go on TV and tell Americans that extremists came with heavy weapons to attack the consulate? She did not say that protesters came with heavy weapons. She said extremists came with heavy weapons. By mentioning 'extremists bringing heavy weapons' on every show that Susan Rice went on, it totally debunks your CT about a 'narrative to diffuse the fallout from Benghazi'. To diffuse the fallout, as you wish were true. they would have had to deny that it was an act of terror and denied that extremists attacked the consulate and CIA annex with heavy weapons. But they didn't. So your CT is as goofy as ever.
And after weeks of complaining about the White House 'changing the talking points 12 times' now you are arguing that they kept the CIA talking points the same and their dastardly deed is now 'not changing' what the CIA assessed in the first few days after the attack. How do you live with yourself making an argument today that is opposite the argument you made yesterday?
Obama did not refer to the Benghazi Attacks as a terrorist attack within 24 hours, he referred TO terrorist attacks and said he was against 'em. Susan Rice made the rounds on the Sunday Political circuit and consistently blamed the attacks on a riot resulting from a Youtube video. A riot in which she noted that RPGs were present in the resultant attack.
All you're trying to do is to rationalize the facts as a means to revise the history, wherein the State Department and the Peasantpimp of the Union States took action, abusing their authority and the public trust, AT BEST: TO CONCEAL THEIR FAILURES.
But in truth, they were complicit in the attack... which served as a means to cover up the Executive Branch's efforts which will soon be shown to have been the foundational actions taken in the creation of that which we know today as: ISIS. OKA: Treason on a scale which no American could have ever believed to be possible.
"And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi. As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe. No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done."
... you have to twist your own comprehension abilities into a tortured contortion in order to convince yourself Obama wasn't speaking of the attack in Benghazi when he said, "no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation..."
I would say you were correct in that assumption, Faun except for Obama's refusal to call it a terror attack over the next several weeks! When you won't label it a terror attack AFTER you've made THAT speech then one has to look at the statement and realize that Obama was speaking "generally" about terror and not specifically about Benghazi. You can't refuse to call it a terror attack and then go back weeks later and say that you DID call it a terror attack.
If he called it a terror attack the day after...then why did he and numerous others in his Administration steadfastly refuse to call it a terror attack for the next week and a half, Faun?
When did the intelligence community "push" the YouTube video protest angle? That was what the original assessment was right after the attacks but within 24 hours the intelligence community was quite sure that there was no protest and had informed the White House of just that. You've got Susan Rice going out on all of those talk shows a week after the attack and stating that their best information was that it was a protest over a video that escalated into an attack when they KNEW that our intelligence community no longer held that view and hadn't for quite some time!