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Republican senator: Obama ‘covered up’ details of attack on consulate

Lindsey Graham says Obama’s administration is either misleading the US public, or it’s “incredibly incompetent”.

Republican senator Lindsey Graham (left) believes the Obama administration has played down details of a co-ordinated attack on a consulate in Libya last month.
Republican senator Lindsey Graham (left) believes the Obama administration has played down details of a co-ordinated attack on a consulate in Libya last month.
Image: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

A SENIOR Republican senator has alleged that Barack Obama’s administration deliberately covered-up details of the attack on a US consulate in Libya that killed four Americans, including the American ambassador.

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham told CBS’s ‘Sunday Morning’ programme he believed the administration knew that the attack in Benghazi – which took place on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks – was a coordinated militia assault within 24 hours of it taking place.

He says the administration described the attack as a spontaneous protest gone awry so that voters would think al-Qaeda had been dismantled by President Barack Obama.

Graham said: “Either they are misleading the American people or are incredibly incompetent.”

The White House declined to comment on Graham’s allegations.

It has said previously that an investigation is under way and officials have spoken to the matter as intelligence became available.

The attack resulted in the death of four people, including US ambassador Christopher Stevens.

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Comments (10 Comments)

  • Who introduced bills and cuts to Embassy security? Who was it that opened hearings “investigating” the Obama Administration when they were one of the biggest backers of the bill cutting Embassy security? Hypocrites. It’s disgusting how they take advantage of such a tragedy for their political agenda.

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    • Say what you want about cutbacks etc but the Obama administration ignored Ambassador Stevens request for additional security when he felt the embassy was under heightened threat. They than proceeded to run around blaming some dumb video when the world and it’s wife could see that this was an act of terror and they did so for political reasons fearing his foreign policy would be seen as weak. Obama was calling it a spontaneous mob action in reaction to te video even while hisnown rad of counterterrorism was testifying before Congress that it was a terrorist act.

      This is a HUGE issue only a few weeks out from an election.

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    • I do agree and think the Republicans are everything that’s wrong with America… But what he’s saying makes a bit of sense, Obamas campaign has a lot to do with the public believing he killed A. Q. along with Bin Laden… It’s quite a coincidence it happened on the anniversary of 9-11. Politics is a game of lies, manipulation and truth bending and I don’t think Obamas administration is exempt. In saying that, on his worst day, he’s a better man than Romney would be on his best day.

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  • actually it was one of the bushs who downgraded embassy security….they got rid of the marines and brought in private security….the one in dublin is guarded by eastern europeans.

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  • Gott in Himmell ! These republicans are really loosing the plot.

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  • Is Lindsey out of shot?

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  • You say consultate, I say consulate. Let’s call the whole thing off.

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  • Peter 14/10/12 #

    Obama gave channelled through the Saudis to directly fund the “rebels” of these rebels, many fought against the USA while they were in Iraq and Afghanistan, real Al-kieda . Sarcozy gave the rebels money directly without any questions asked…

    this is blow back for stupid foreign policy, but its a wonder had the republicans started the war the democrats would be on the same boat … no difference between republicans or democrats

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  • The Republications are really scraping the bottom of the barrel now .

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