New details emerge from Benghazi
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The UK's Daily Mail reveals that a CNN camera crew has dug up some new details on the attack on Benghazi
and the death of Ambassador Stevens, including a film of the ambassador
being carried from the compound to the hospital. They talked to
eyewitnesses and the attending doctor, who pronounced Stevens dead.
Stevens and three others were killed in a six hour attack that
included members of the Islamist militia Ansar al-Sharia. Ansar
al-Sharia has denied that they planned the attack but did not dispute
that some of their members were involved. There has been speculation
that former president Morsi of Egypt was involved, but it has never been
confirmed.
CNN spoke with a man who filmed the ambassador being carried from the compound. CNN reporter Amwa Damon spoke to the man who told the reporter, 'I thought it was a driver or a security guy. He had a pulse and his eyes were moving. His mouth was black from all the smoke.'
That's consistant with what the doctor, Dr Ziad Abu Zei, told the same CNN crew, 'I began resuscitating him but after 45 minutes the patient gave no signs of life.'
Stevens body was then taken by the protesters who shouted, "Allah Akbar, as they drug his body through the streets.
The attacked spawned criricism of both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for not providing the ambassador with proper security. Eric Nordstrom testified in front of congress that he and Ambassador Stevens had made multiple requests for more security, but that all such requests were denied.
One such request was denied directly by Ms. Clinton, which is contrary to the testimony she gave to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Jan. 23. The incident is detailed in a report by several committees with access to White House correspondance. The report outlined three major details:
(1) The committees' Republicans conclude that Clinton approved security reductions at the consulate, pointing to evidence such as an April 2012 State Department cable bearing her signature. The cable was a formal request from then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz for more security. In her testimony before Congress in January, Clinton said, "With specific security requests they didn't come to me. I had no knowledge of them."
(2) The interim report also charges that White House and senior State Department officials attempted to protect the State Department from criticism by altering accurate talking points drafted by the intelligence community. For instance, the report says that, after a Sept. 15, 2012 meeting, administration officials removed references to the likely participation of Islamic extremists.
(3) The report also contradicts administration claims that the talking points were changed to protect classified information. None of the email exchanges reviewed ever mentioned a concern about classified information, according to the report.
Veteran CNN reporter Damon said, 'It's still stunning to see how little protection the compound had.' Her report also details facts about the rise of the Islamic extremists in Libya.
The extremists are making it difficult for the fledgling government of Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf to transition from 42 years of dictatorship.
CNN spoke with a man who filmed the ambassador being carried from the compound. CNN reporter Amwa Damon spoke to the man who told the reporter, 'I thought it was a driver or a security guy. He had a pulse and his eyes were moving. His mouth was black from all the smoke.'
That's consistant with what the doctor, Dr Ziad Abu Zei, told the same CNN crew, 'I began resuscitating him but after 45 minutes the patient gave no signs of life.'
Stevens body was then taken by the protesters who shouted, "Allah Akbar, as they drug his body through the streets.
The attacked spawned criricism of both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for not providing the ambassador with proper security. Eric Nordstrom testified in front of congress that he and Ambassador Stevens had made multiple requests for more security, but that all such requests were denied.
One such request was denied directly by Ms. Clinton, which is contrary to the testimony she gave to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Jan. 23. The incident is detailed in a report by several committees with access to White House correspondance. The report outlined three major details:
(1) The committees' Republicans conclude that Clinton approved security reductions at the consulate, pointing to evidence such as an April 2012 State Department cable bearing her signature. The cable was a formal request from then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz for more security. In her testimony before Congress in January, Clinton said, "With specific security requests they didn't come to me. I had no knowledge of them."
(2) The interim report also charges that White House and senior State Department officials attempted to protect the State Department from criticism by altering accurate talking points drafted by the intelligence community. For instance, the report says that, after a Sept. 15, 2012 meeting, administration officials removed references to the likely participation of Islamic extremists.
(3) The report also contradicts administration claims that the talking points were changed to protect classified information. None of the email exchanges reviewed ever mentioned a concern about classified information, according to the report.
Veteran CNN reporter Damon said, 'It's still stunning to see how little protection the compound had.' Her report also details facts about the rise of the Islamic extremists in Libya.
The extremists are making it difficult for the fledgling government of Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf to transition from 42 years of dictatorship.
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