# Obama: the controversy over the attack on the U.S. embassy # _ # Libya farce

# Obama: the controversy over the attack on the U.S. embassy # _ # Libya farce

Defended U.S. President Barack Obama for his administration's response to attack Benghazi in Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, describing revive the controversy around it a "farce".

The media quoted an American about Obama, saying in a joint press conference with Cameron after the reunion meeting at the White House, commenting on the indictment of the administration of trying to cover up the incident, that these questions are "politically motivated." Obama said his administration was "transparent as possible in the hours that followed the events of Benghazi," asserting that "no one understood in the first days after the attack." He said that "Republicans in Washington were not collaborators, in those days, in order to fix it."

In response to Republican accusations that his administration of trying to cover up the events of Benghazi link to terrorism, Obama said that "the terminology used by the country's ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, coincided with the assessment that you received by in the meantime." He added that he "sent a few days after the President's Counterterrorism Center to Capitol Hill, where lawmakers said the Benghazi attack was an act of terrorism involving the extremist elements from within Libya." He asked, "The attempts to cover up within 3 days," he said, adding that "this whole thing is far from logic."

Obama continued, "There is no time for us to continue in the performance of these political ploys in Washington," pointing out that "the most important work is to ensure the protection of American diplomats in an appropriate manner."
He said, "we have forbidden their memory when you turn things similar to a political circus."

Al-Hayat