In any kind of confused overseas event, initial reports are often wrong. But the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, including the ambassador, is a case study of how an administration can carefully keep the focus as long as possible on one storyline — and then turn on a dime when it is no longer tenable.UPDATE: There's this too. And this. OK, I can't help myself.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It ... Until I Can't Anymore
The WaPo has a detailed timeline of the Obama Administration's statements of the Libya embassy attack. Read the whole thing. Here is the remark that kicks off the timeline:
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Re Josh Gershtein's defense of Obama by citing the phrase "acts of terror" ... "acts of genocide" (in Rwanda), anyone? Once again, the Susan Rice - Clinton - Rwanda link rears itself. Publicly seeming to acknowledge a thing but in actuality and legally not.
Next thing you know politicians will be debating what the actual meaning of "is" is -- whoops, too late!
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