On ABC News' World News Tonight, Jonathan Karl breaks the news that there was no protest outside prior to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
"This is significantly different than what we were being told at the time. At the time, as you recall, we were told it was a protest that went bad and became an attack. Now, we are told there was no protest going on outside that embassy. The first indication that they heard anything outside the walls of the embassy — of the consulate compound, was an explosion and gunfire. They looked through a camera to see what was going on and we are told they saw a large number of armed men coming and approaching that compound. We're told it was a very complex attack without precedent in U.S. diplomatic history. We've never seen an attack like this in Libya or anywhere else, we were told by this senior State Department official," Karl reported.
This is getting ridiculous. You expect a little truth-stretching in a foreign policy context. But now it seems the WH and State just made up a big lie — it was a protest gone wrong when in fact there was no protest? Just an attack? A big, sophisticated attack? The MSM just swallowed the story at first, but to their (partial maybe) credit, they seem to be on the story now. The combination of incompetence and mendacity coming out of the control tower is, well, pretty appalling. –TS