Reaction to Consulate Attack

On September 13, 2012 when ABC spoke to Romney regarding his comments he said “What I said was exactly the same conclusion the White House reached which was that the statement was inappropriate, that’s why they backed away from it as well”. ABC then said - they didn’t say it sympathized with the attackers and Romney replied – The statement stayed on the website as I indicated for some 14, 15 hours, the statement was reiterated after the attackers breached the sovereignty of the embassy and even after the killing in Libya, and by the way what I said was exactly the same conclusion the White House reached which was the statement was inappropriate and that’s why they backed away from it as well. I think it was not directly applicable and appropriate for the setting, I think it should have been taken down and apparently the White House felt the same way. I am amazed that Romney is so sure of what the White House thinks.

On September 20 at the Univision forum in Florida the first question asked of the President was why there wasn’t more security at the Consulate in Libya, Obama said “When the initial events happened in Cairo and all across the region we worked with Secretary Clinton to redouble our security…our goal now is not only to make sure our embassies and diplomats safe but also to make sure that we bring those that carried out these events to justice” – he didn’t answer the question. On this same date the White House for the first time called the assault a terrorist attack and said there was no advance notice because it was a spontaneous reaction to the movie. The Director of the National Counterintelligence Center told Congress that it’s likely that Al Qaeda played a role whether or not it was preplanned or spontaneous but there’s been no evidence of it yet and Secretary Clinton said there’s been no evidence that the Ambassador was on a terrorist hit list. Republican Marco Rubio said “What happened in Benghazi was not an anti-American protest, it was not as the result of a YouTube video, it was an orchestrated Anti-American terrorist attack”. I unlike Rubio say the uprisings were caused by the movie because that’s exactly what the protesters (Taliban, Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, etc.) have said over and over again in every country. But, I thought I’d check things out further.