How convenient, the FBI won’t let them. Bullshit. Not all questions about the incident pertain to matters that would affect the investigation, so their refusal to answer any questions is about something else…
Excerpted from The Cable: The State Department told reporters Friday afternoon that it won’t answer any more questions about the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans until the investigation into the incident is complete.
“I’m going to frustrate all of you, infinitely, by telling you that now that we have an open FBI investigation on the death of these four Americans, we are not going to be in a position to talk at all about what the U.S. government may or may not be learning about how any of this this happened — not who they were, not how it happened, not what happened to Ambassador Stevens, not any of it — until the Justice Department is ready to talk about the investigation that’s its got,” State Department spokeswoman Victorian Nuland told reporters late Friday afternoon.
“So I’m going to send to the FBI for those kinds of questions and they’re probably not going to talk to you about it,” she said.
All aspects of the attack, including what led up to it, its causes, the identity of the perpetrators, and the circumstances surrounding the death of Amb. Chris Stevens and the other three Americans,are off limits for reporters.
The new policy leaves many questions about the Benghazi attack unanswered, potentially for a long time, such as the identity of the attackers, whether they were connected to protests earlier in the day in Cairo, what were the exact circumstances and cause of Stevens’s death, whether the administration had indications of the threat beforehand, and whether the consulate’s security was adequate or not.
Many of these questions are sure to be asked by lawmakers, beginning with the leaders of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, who called today for an investigation into the security procedures at the Benghazi consulate before and during the attack.
Two senior officials did speak extensively about the events of the night of the attack on the consulate Sept 12 in a background conference call with reporters, but that’s all the information the administration intends to give out, Nuland said.
Reporters at the briefing pointed out that the officials on that conference call noted that they were giving out preliminary information that might have been wrong and if the State Department doesn’t talk about the night’s events ever again, that wrong information would remain uncorrected in the public sphere.
“The U.S. government is going to be happy to let incorrect information stand?” one reporter asked.
“I will make a personal pledge to you that if I become aware that information we gave that first night is radically wrong in a way that you deserve to know, I will do my best to get that information to you,” Nuland said. “But I have to respect the fact that this is now a crime scene.”
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I believe they are hiding this because Obama and Hillary set this up.
I think Obama gave up Amb. Stevens in order to change the subject here at home. Unemployment, inflation, failed administration, etc...
Paul, I truly believe {BHO} gave up `Amb. Stevens for His Muslim belief.. and planning more deaths to institute his Un-God-like-Plan..! Has to go, no other way, either by the vote or the court..!!
It is time for American Citizens to get serious and rid the whole Washington scene of the liberal - progressive Marxists who inhabit it. That won't be done by debating the reasons for what they do and playing the game by their rigged rules. You can't win in a rigged game! Get serious or get beat.
Our government just murdered our citizens, so we have a right to know all about the lies they keep telling us, and they called Bush a Nazi. Our campaigner in chief's polices are like Hilter's among others.
Fast and furious all over again.
Conspiracy? Hell yes it's a conspiracy! Obama has ordered his drones to seal their lips and declare all info secret. He's got his muslim brothers all riled up and now he must keep the people from the finding the truth. I'm tired of them blaming a movie trailer that was released months ago on you tube, I'm sick of hearing how we should walk and talk delicately about Islam and I'm fed up with Obama and all his followers. Obama is a muslim and a traitor to the people of the United States. This is an act of war it's not an isolated, local incident; this is for the military to handle not the FBI.
This is the most shameful administration to set foot in Washington.They really expect us to buy this bullsh*t story about the attack being a spontanious act.They will tell us what we deserve to know.Thats not being truthful or transparent.
Islam loves to be symbolic.The attacks in Egypt and Lybia wer planed for 911 as a symbol of the attack on the twin towers.Does'nt take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
WE HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT