[TheRealThing]

In the scheme of things, would it have made any difference in one day and 2 weeks, while they sorted it out? Why are you all so focused on the one day to 2 week timetable? Again, did you want a "shoot first, aim later" response? Or, are you just making a big deal out of talking points? Not debating, just asking.

My take on all this. First, the president, through his own state department had, real-time-information, about the Benghazi embassy attack. The administration knew this was bad, because over the course of the past few months they had denied Ambassador Stevens repeated requests for enhanced security. Thus, they would be guilty of having mishandled the whole affair due to the fact that Ambassador Stevens concerns were more than founded, (as in fact he now lay dead). The state department official "under oath" admitted this along with the fact that she, Amy Lamb, even instructed the Benghazi embassy to stop any further requests for enhanced security because they would not be honored. Second, with election day looming and to hide this inconvenient truth, this administration concocted a cover story. In pursuit of this deceit, Hillary declared the slain US diplomats victims of violence over the video. So did UN Ambassador Susan Rice, and Press Secretary Jay Carney. Also complicitous in the cover was our president himself. ulogizing Chris Stevens two weeks later, at the United Nations, Mr Obama mentioned the inflamatory video no less than 6 times while, never once having referred to the matter as an act of terror. Third, having realized everybody else in the whole world is not quite as dumb as he first thought, and therefore recognizing he is in the deep doo-doo, administration officials are forced to rely on the only 'out', they can come up with. That was the vague reference to terror in his perfunctory closing remarks the day following, from the Rose Garden.

What is wrong with just telling folks the truth? This what I believe is the Modus~Operandi of these folks, everything must be spun to achieve maximum benefit for the administration. It's lying