10-24-2012, 08:02 PM
From Slate:
...In the same story that breaks the news and gives readers the e-mails, CBS News prints an unaired answer that Obama gave Steve Kroft on September 12. It was his first interview after the attacks.
"You're right that this is not a situation that was -- exactly the same as what happened in Egypt and my suspicion is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start."
The next day, Obama was in Colorado, where he addressed the killings in Libya.
"A couple of days ago, for four Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Libya... So what I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice. I want people around the world to hear me: To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished."
Obama didn't pretend that this was merely "a protest that got out of hand." The trouble, when we look back at the timeline, is that reporters didn't really glom onto the Libya story for a few days. When they did, by the Sunday shows and September 19, you had administration spokespeople soft-peddling the "target Americans from the start" story.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/10/24/the_shocking_world_changing_new_libya_e_mails.html
...In the same story that breaks the news and gives readers the e-mails, CBS News prints an unaired answer that Obama gave Steve Kroft on September 12. It was his first interview after the attacks.
"You're right that this is not a situation that was -- exactly the same as what happened in Egypt and my suspicion is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start."
The next day, Obama was in Colorado, where he addressed the killings in Libya.
"A couple of days ago, for four Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Libya... So what I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice. I want people around the world to hear me: To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished."
Obama didn't pretend that this was merely "a protest that got out of hand." The trouble, when we look back at the timeline, is that reporters didn't really glom onto the Libya story for a few days. When they did, by the Sunday shows and September 19, you had administration spokespeople soft-peddling the "target Americans from the start" story.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/10/24/the_shocking_world_changing_new_libya_e_mails.html