Nothing to see here. The fact that it happened on 9/11 is just a coincidence.

Do people always walk around with heavy weapons?

So it wasn't spontaneous cinema critism, it was spontaneous terrorism? More planning by Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland when they put on a show in Uncle Bob's barn?

Just one more lie in a cascade of lies.

The official said the assessment evolved once again as "it was clear from the outset that a group of people gathered that evening." He added, "A key question early on was whether extremists took over a crowd or if the guys who showed up were all militants. It took time-until that next week-to sort through varied and sometimes conflicting accounts to understand the group's overall composition."

Like Romney's sons as kids, they keep hoping that if they repeat this long enough, it will magically become fact.

Dream on...

The words to be inserted here are a simile that equates the fundamental premises of this article, that is the "intelligence reports" cited herein, with that of male bovine waste material.

...and you expected something else from ABC?

The attackers used indirect fire mortars to hit the American buildings, and they want us to believe that all that just happened out of the blue on the anniversary of the 9-11-01 attacks in the USA?

If you believe that, Barack Obama would sell you the believe that there is no such thing as Islamist terrorists and that is has all been America's fault.

Yeah, everyone carries mortars around with them... And it is just a coincidence that the embassy had requested more security long before the attack. Yeah, right.

There was certainly no planning ... on the part of the Obama administration in terms of security.

It's a thousand pages, give or take a few,
I'll be writing more in a week or two.
I can make it longer if you like the style,
I can change it round and I want to be a paperback writer.

Paperback Writer, The Beatles

Dr. John's ''Right Place Wrong Time'' also comes to mind.

The 0bama administration is throwing everything into its sausage making machine and no one is swallowing it.

Of course this new info contradicts other info that has already come out. The entire administration is covering itself with filth.

So, the lady from the State Dept. was lying when she said, under oath, that she watched the attack happening in real time?????

Rolling in the aisles....if it wasn't so tragic.

Rewritten headline: "Administration acknowledges lack of intelligence in its response to Benghazi Consulate Attack". I hope Romney can slam-dunk this issue without getting down into the weeds. It was a political response to a terrorist attack, plain and simple.

Hey, this thing just keeps getting better and better! Way to go, boys!

This is just another reason that the LSM only has an 8% credibility

Thats my story and I'm sticking to it......for now.

When will they tell us something we can believe?

What was ABC paid or promised to tout this spin?

Who is the Intelligence Officer briefing this and who is he briefing it too...there was a seven hour battle...with preplanned mortar fire...so I guess this is what you would call a spontaneous-non-planned-out-of-no where-9-11 attack

#18 Never. They are incapable of telling the truth.

Why just last week I spontaniously bought a tank and shelled the Iranian embassy.

I'm Barack Obama, and I approved this message.

According to the Christian Science Monitor of September 12, "Elite Marines sent to Tripoli in wake of Libya attack":

But a US counterterrorism official said the Benghazi violence was "too coordinated or professional" to be spontaneous. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the incident publicly.

We know there were other statements similar to the above and that the Prime Minister of Libya kept insisting it was nothing to do with the video. It's not that difficult to find them in articles published by reputable news sources on the net, just time-consuming.

Two Libyan terrorists are talking. "Hey, you want to go to a movie?... No... Hey, I've got some RPG's in my car, let's go attack the US embassey... OK let's go."

Thanks Glen Beck.

According to one report I read, the "intelligence" came from some of the attackers themselves. Are they going to admit it was planned?

Rewriting history. Unbelievable, yet just in time for Monday's Foreign Affairs debate.

Barry will quote this ABC propaganda on Monday night. Bet on it.

For those of you unfamiliar with mortar fire, the positions for firing the mortars are some distance from the target. And those positions are mapped out beforehand, in order to not kill your own troops.
there are also forward spotters, in some cases.
hussein obama is quite a guy. he corrupted the labor department and BLS, and now he has corrupted the CIA.
And, they want us to believe that the obamabots have proven a negative.

Yes, Barry will quote ABC at the debate. ABC quotes an unnamed intelligence source, and the intelligence source got his information from, ----wait for it----, the White House....

I don't think Obama will be selling very many bridges any time soon.

Hmmmmmmmmmm-There is a very different take on the Sept 11 situation in Lybia -
http://www.lsnewsgroup.com/2012/10/17/obama-arranged-benghazi-trip-that-resulted-in-murder-of-us-amb-chris-stevens/

I would believe this person rather than anything coming from the WH or State Dept.

All of this is to reinforce the "fog of war" concept that information was and is just too sketchy, and therefore everything the administration did was perfectly reasonable, see? Including of course, Sec. of State, who once the election is over will turn on Obama like you won't believe to ensure that she was out of the fake video story, but went along with the narrative to speak with one voice.

The people who would believe it can't read anyway so why bother with this blather?

Yes, the successive coordinated waves of attack, the precision attacks with mortar rounds, RPG's and heavy machine guns and the ambushes set up to cut off any routes of escape....


....are all hallmarks of your garden-variety spontaneous protest.

ABC "News" lies for Obama almost as frequently as Obama lies.

ABC News: do you realize you lose all professional credibility by issuing this 'piece'?

Oh.....opinion now is 'news' ....I forgot this is the Brave New World

Another load of horse manure from ABC and Luis Martinez. Have you no shame, sir???

Another case of spontaneous combustion.

"Right now, there isn't any intelligence that the attackers pre-planned their assault days or weeks in advance," said a U.S. intelligence official.

Of course not. That intelligence will be revealed three days after November 6.

What is ole Candy going to do now?

She walked back her lie, then she walked back her walk back.

Now this! Her head must be spinning for having been punked by the preeezzzeee.

Right. Just a bunch of heavily armed film critics.

Pure craziness. The purest form of intelligence was this ambassador continuously begging for more security.The fact his requests were ignored doesn't mean they had no intelligence.

I even heard he wanted a barbed wire fence around the compound and was refused.Too provocative.

"Right now, there isn't any intelligence that the attackers pre-planned their assault days or weeks in advance,"

Is the "right now" important in this sentence? Should we expect that right after the election, there will be intelligence? Or should we focus on "there isn't any intelligence?" Did all of it burn up in the consulate? Or have the shredders and hard drive cleaners been in action? Or should we note that they used "day or weeks" and left out "months?" Perhaps the very fact that the event itself revealed coordinated attack does not count as "intelligence?"

More likely this means that "We were totally caught off guard and did not have a clue that this might happen on 9/11 in a place where al Qaeda was active and an active war was in progress, even though our own ambassador had warned us about it."

Ah, yes...I was out for a bit of fresh air and a lemonade. As I was walking home, instead of taking my usual route through the gardens to smell fresh blossoms, I pulled an RPG out of my backpack and stormed a US consulate. s/o

I do believe the headline is incorrect. It should read: "Planning shows no intelligence." The administration seems to be doing a lot of planning/squirming how to get out of this one, but intelligence - no sign of that.

BS. The radicals have the weapons (we gave them) and the time. Why not attack, it's WHAT THEY DO!

What comes out of ABC "News" bears a striking similarity to what comes out of my horse...

This conclusion and intelligence is oxymoronic.
ABC is in bad need of editors.