September Eleventh 2012

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Catron, in a statement. San Francisco International Airport officials have told employees that there may be an increase in local and federal law enforcement throughout the airport. Employees were asked to report any suspicious activity to airport officials or to call Peter's Church at 2 p. For the nation's flight attendants, the memories are still fresh, the fallen more than names on a memorial. Many are choosing to fly on September 11 as a way to honor their 25 fallen colleagues from American and United Airlines, said Veda Shook, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, whose nearly 60, members work at 21 airlines.

The Association of Flight Attendants is asking for a moment of silence on September 11 at 8: How do you feel about air travel on September 11? Let us know in the comments below. And there should be no doubt that we will be relentless in tracking down the killers and bringing them to justice. He said, "I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video, and I believe its message must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity.

2012 Benghazi attack

In the immediate aftermath, there was information that led us to assess that the attack began spontaneously following protests earlier that day at our embassy in Cairo. We provided that initial assessment to Executive Branch officials and members of Congress As we learned more about the attack, we revised our initial assessment to reflect new information indicating that it was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by extremists. It remains unclear if any group or person exercised overall command and control of the attack, and if extremist group leaders directed their members to participate.

Also on September 28, it was reported that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula , the producer of the Innocence of Muslims video, had been arrested in California and was being held without bail for alleged probation violations stemming from a bank fraud conviction. On CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley on September 30, Crowley observed that "Friday we got the administration's sort of definitive statement that this now looks as though it was a pre-planned attack by a terrorist group, some of whom were at least sympathetic to al Qaeda," and asked the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee , Senator John McCain , "why do you think and are you bothered that it has taken them this long from September 11th to now to get to this conclusion?

It was either willful ignorance or abysmal intelligence to think that people come to spontaneous demonstrations with heavy weapons, mortars, and the attack goes on for hours. On October 4, 22 days after the attack, FBI investigators were finally allowed access to the scene of the attack.

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The hearing testimony revealed that "Hicks argued that Rice's comments so insulted the Libyan president—since they contradicted his Sept. His credibility was reduced,' Hicks said, adding that the president was apparently 'still steamed' two weeks later. In the Presidential debate of October 16, , between President Obama and Mitt Romney , Romney claimed that "it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.

It was not a spontaneous demonstration, is that what you're saying? On October 19, , House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa R-CA came under fire from intelligence officials in the Obama administration when he posted, on a public website, pages of sensitive but unclassified State Department communications related to Libya.

According to officials, the release of the unredacted documents compromised the identities of several Libyans working with the U. McCain stated, "we know that there were tapes, recordings inside the consulate during this fight So the president went on various shows, despite what he said in the Rose Garden, about terrorist acts, he went on several programs, including The View , including Letterman , including before the UN where he continued to refer, days later, many days later, to this as a spontaneous demonstration because of a hateful video. We know that is patently false.

What did the president know? When did he know it? And what did he do about it? Secretary Clinton was scheduled to testify before Congress on December 20 about the attack. On December 15, it was reported that she had become dehydrated from the flu, fainted, and sustained a concussion. Consequently, her testimony was postponed. Allen West to claim that the illness was a ruse intended to avoid testifying. When Johnson pressed her to explain why, in the immediate aftermath, no one from the State Department had asked American evacuees if there had been a protest before the attack, Clinton replied:.

With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans! Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they'd go kill some Americans?! What difference, at this point, does it make?! It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. Now, honestly, I will do my best to answer your questions about this, but the fact is that people were trying in real time to get to the best information.

The [Intelligence Community] has a process, I understand, going with the other committees to explain how these talking points came out. But you know, to be clear, it is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we'll figure out what was going on in the meantime. In March , Representative Duncan D. Hunter introduced legislation into the th Congress to authorize awarding of Congressional Gold Medals to Doherty and Woods for their actions that led to their deaths. In April , the Pentagon announced the activation of a USMC quick response force for North Africa that would use the range and speed of the Bell Boeing V Osprey to be able to respond to similar events in the future.

On May 13, , President Obama stated during a news conference, "The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism. On July 30, Rep. Critics including Republican Party members accused the Obama White House and State Department of over-emphasizing or fabricating the role of Islamic anger over the anti-Islamic movie Innocence of Muslims and alleged that the administration was reluctant to label the attack as "terrorist".

It was clearly designed to be an attack. Testimony from top U. No attack aircraft had been placed on high alert on September 11, the anniversary of the September 11 attacks in , and the closest fighter planes to trouble spots in North Africa were based in Aviano, Italy. The fighter planes based in Aviano were unarmed and no aerial refueling planes were within a hour flight to the base. In addition, no AC gunships were within a hour flight of Libya, and their crews did not reach a staging base in Italy until 19 hours after the attack began. With the attack and subsequent criticism occurring in the last two months of the U.

Presidential election , Democrats and liberal media figures accused Republicans of politicizing the attacks in an unprecedented manner.

Robert Gates , former CIA director and Defense Secretary under Republican Presidents and then President Obama until stepping down in July , has said that some critics of the government's response have a "cartoonish" view of military capabilities. He stated that he would have responded with equal caution given the risks and the lack of intelligence on the ground, and that American forces require planning and preparation, which the circumstances did not allow for.

President Obama called the criticism a "sideshow" [] and later accused Congress of "taking its eye off the ball" on the subject of the economy and focusing on "phony scandals". White House Spokesman Jay Carney later specified that the criticism of the administration's handling of the Benghazi attacks was one of those "phony scandals". On December 10, , upon publication of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report on Benghazi, [] Committee Chairman Mike Rogers wrote in an op-ed piece, "The Obama administration's White House and State Department actions before, during, and after the Benghazi terrorist attack on September 11, , ranged from incompetence to deplorable political manipulation in the midst of an election season.

For actions in Benghazi during the attack, a Marine was awarded the Navy Cross , and a Soldier was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross ; their names have been held in secret. Multiple conservative media outlets, most notably Fox News, promulgated an elaborate narrative of a scandal and cover-up by officials of the Obama administration, including, among other things, accusations that officials issued a "stand-down order" to preclude a military rescue operation; that officials knowingly lied by repeatedly asserting the attack was spontaneously triggered by the Innocence of Muslims video rather than a pre-planned terrorist attack; that a secret CIA gun-running operation to Syrian rebels was being conducted out of Libya; that President Obama and Hillary Clinton were absent and negligent on the night of the attack; that Hillary Clinton had personally declined multiple requests for more security at the compound; that a live video feed of the attack was viewed at the White House or State Department; that Ambassador Stevens had been captured by terrorists and dragged through the streets; and that witnesses had been prevented from testifying.

These accusations were widely shared across various blogs and social media platforms. Ultimately, none of the accusations of scandal and cover-up were confirmed by any of the ten Benghazi investigations , including six investigations conducted by Republican-controlled congressional committees. Based on a textual analysis that tallied the occurrence of certain words and phrases in news reports during the days immediately following the attack, the study concluded that leading newspapers in the U.

Obama administration officials, most notably Susan Rice , were provided this early assessment and repeated it to media outlets, only to be later contradicted as further intelligence assessments were made. Anybody who tells you that what happened to our ambassador and our consulate in Libya was as a result of a protest over an offensive movie, you should ask them why they think that.

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That's the first version of events we heard. That does not seem to explain what happened that night or by the facts or the more facts we get. On June , Maddow criticized the right-wing media for reporting an arrest as bad news, said that Americas are poorly served by the media, and that "the take on Fox News is that's not actually news" and now "they have to make it bad news, they have to make into maybe a scandal itself.

On the edition of October 24 of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier , syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer claimed that a State Department e-mail, which passed along a report from Embassy Tripoli that Ansar al-Sharia had claimed responsibility for the attack on Facebook and Twitter, [] [] proved that the White House knew of terrorist connections to the attack almost immediately. Krauthammer stated, "This is really a journalistic scandal. I mean, the fact there was not a word about any of this in the [New York] Times or the [Washington] Post today.

Conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg of the National Review stated that on NBC's Meet the Press , host David Gregory changed the subject when a guest raised the subject of the Benghazi attack, saying, "Let's get to Libya a little bit later", but never returned to the subject. While being interviewed on Fox News by Jon Scott, Ricks accused Fox News of being "extremely political" in its coverage of the attack and said that "Fox was operating as a wing of the Republican Party.

The interview was cut short and Ricks and the interview was not mentioned or covered by Fox News again. Fox News was subsequently criticized for cutting the interview short. Henry said, "We've had the proper emphasis, but I would not be so deluded to say that some of our shows, some of our commentators, have covered it more than it needed to be covered. There were ten investigations into the Benghazi matter: After the first five Republican investigations found no evidence of wrongdoing by senior Obama administration officials, Republicans in opened a sixth investigation, the House Select Committee on Benghazi , chaired by Trey Gowdy.

This investigation also failed to find any evidence of wrongdoing by senior Obama administration officials. A possible political motive for the investigation was revealed on September 29, , when Republican House majority leader Kevin McCarthy , then vying to become Speaker of the House, told Sean Hannity on Fox News that the investigation was part of a "strategy to fight and win,' adding "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee.

What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Shortly after the Benghazi attack, Secretary of State Clinton commissioned an independent Accountability Review Board to investigate, chaired by retired ambassador Thomas R. The Board released their final report on December 19, By the end of , Eric J.

The House Select Committee on Benghazi 's final report was released on June 28, and the committee closed down five months later. The findings of the two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee , the fifth of six Republican investigations, was summarized by the Associated Press on November 21, A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the attack on a U.

Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, intelligence about who carried it out and why was contradictory, the report found.

That led Susan Rice, then U. But it was intelligence analysts, not political appointees, who made the wrong call, the committee found. The report did not conclude that Rice or any other government official acted in bad faith or intentionally misled the American people. In the aftermath of the attacks, Republicans criticized the Obama administration and its then-secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is expected to run for president in People in and out of government have alleged that a CIA response team was ordered to "stand down" after the State Department compound came under attack, that a military rescue was nixed, that officials intentionally downplayed the role of al-Qaida figures in the attack, and that Stevens and the CIA were involved in a secret operation to spirit weapons out of Libya and into the hands of Syrian rebels.

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None of that is true, according to the House Intelligence Committee report. The report did find, however, that the State Department facility where Stevens and Smith were killed was not well-protected, and that State Department security agents knew they could not defend it from a well-armed attack. Previous reports have found that requests for security improvements were not acted upon in Washington. Freedom of Information Act requests have been made since the attack. An acknowledgement of the request was received by Judicial Watch on January 4, When the State Department failed to respond to the request by February 4, , Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit, which resulted in seven photographs being delivered on June 6, According to preliminary translations provided to the U.

Department of State employees originating from, or addressed to, persons whose email addresses end in either 'barackobama. To underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy Susan Rice for her appearances on Sunday news shows two days later, and it "sets out the Administration's view of the cause of the Benghazi attacks". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article's lead section may be too long for the length of the article. Please help by moving some material from it into the body of the article. Please read the layout guide and lead section guidelines to ensure the section will still be inclusive of all essential details.

Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. From top to bottom, and left to right: President, Vice President updated on situation night of September 11, ; President Obama, with Secretary Clinton, delivering statement in the Rose Garden, September 12, ; two photographs released through a FOIA request; Secretary Clinton testifying before the Senate Committee on January 23, ; portion of "wanted" poster seeking information on the attacks in Benghazi.

Inter-civil war violence in Libya. American fatalities and injuries of the Benghazi attack. Investigation into the Benghazi attack and Timeline of the investigation into the Benghazi attack. Libya portal United States portal. Retrieved December 30, Intel believes some Benghazi attackers tied to al Qaeda in Iraq". Archived from the original PDF on January 16, Here's how the Benghazi attacks played out". Retrieved September 28, CIA ran Benghazi consulate".

The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 11, Kirkpatrick, David October 15, The New York Times.

Retrieved November 7, No Protest at the Benghazi consulate". Starr, Barbara September 27, Terrorists 'clearly' planned Benghazi attack". Kirkpatrick June 17, Retrieved June 21, Kirkpatrick October 18, Libyan Islamist says he was at U. Retrieved October 2, Now that the election is behind us, perhaps we can put politics aside and acknowledge a hard fact: Ackerman, Spencer November 12, Which means the next battle of Benghazi could be even more intense than the last.

Shaffer, Tony October 30, This battle of Benghazi was a protracted fight—covering at least six to eight hours depending on when you start the clock. Mitchell Zuckoff September 9, When the Libyan C took flight bearing the last operators and the four bodies, the Battle of Benghazi ended as a combat engagement between Americans and their enemies.

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