Wall Street Journal Backs Up Obama Administration Claims on Benghazi
The latest report about the Benghazi attack further drives home the point that the right’s unrelenting attempts to claim there was a “cover-up” are simply dishonest, trumped up, and false: Intelligence Stressed Libya Protest Scenario.
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama was told in his daily intelligence briefing for more than a week after the consulate siege in Benghazi that the assault grew out of a spontaneous protest, despite conflicting reports from witnesses and other sources that began to cast doubt on the accuracy of that assessment almost from the start.
New details about the contents of the President’s Daily Brief, which haven’t been reported previously, show that the Central Intelligence Agency didn’t adjust the classified assessment until Sept. 22, fueling tensions between the administration and the agency.
