The right wing media is trying to make political capital out of it for Romney but the facts do not warrant any such luck for him:
Condi Rice Pours Cold Water On ‘Benghazi-Gate’
Condi Rice Pours Cold Water On 'Benghazi-Gate' | ThinkProgress
Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice broke with the majority of her party last night on Fox News, as she tried to hit the brakes on the right wing’s politicization of the recent attack in Libya. Host Greta Van Susteren asked Rice directly and repeatedly about a set of emails
uncovered by Reuters. In what has been dubbed “
Benghazi-Gate,” the conservative media has
jumped on the emails as definitive proof that the Obama administration has been lying about what it knew and when in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attack on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Rice’s response was likely not what Van Susteren expected:
RICE: But when things are unfolding very, very quickly, it’s
not always easy to know what is really going on on the ground. And to my mind, the really important questions here are about how information was collected. Did the various agencies really coordinate and share intelligence in the way that we had hoped, with the reforms that were made after 9/11?
So there’s a big picture to be examined here. But we don’t have all of the pieces, and I think it’s easy to try and jump to conclusions about what might have happened here.
It’s probably better to let the relevant bodies do their work .....
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The Fox network tried to make a case for Obama refusing to give assistance to the CIA but that report was refuted even before the right wing liar's propaganda hit the air waves:
Lou Dobbs Forgets To Report CIA's Denial That It Ordered Personnel To Abandon Americans In Benghazi | Research | Media Matters for America
Panetta: US lacked early info on Benghazi attack
Panetta: US lacked early info on Benghazi attack | recordonline.com
The U.S. military did not quickly intervene during the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya last month because military leaders did not have adequate intelligence information and felt they should not put American forces at risk, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday.
In his most extensive comments to date on the unfolding controversy surrounding the attack in Benghazi, Panetta said U.S. forces were on heightened alert because of the anniversary of 9/11 and prepared to respond. But, he said,
the attack happened over a few hours and was over before the U.S. had the chance to know what was really occurring.
The attack lasted FOUR hours. Therefore, military force could not be deployed because it was not accessible and without fear of violating Libya's sovereignty.
Therefore, contrary to the wishes of the right wing, Benghazigate is a nothing more than a political hoax.
