U.S. denies premeditation report

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The Obama administration is flatly denying a blaring British newspaper report that the U.S. diplomats in Libya were killed as a result of a “continuing security breach,” and that “credible information” about possible attacks had been ignored.

A U.S. official told POLITICO: “There's no intelligence indicating that the attack in Benghazi was premeditated.”

The newspaper, The Independent, plastered its cover with the headline, “Revealed: inside story of US envoy’s assassination,” and reported inside: “The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach … American officials believe the attack was planned."

The article continued: "According to senior diplomatic sources, the U.S. State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and ‘lockdown’, under which movement is severely restricted."

Shawn Turner, spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, emailed: “This is absolutely wrong. We are not aware of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81198.html?hp=t2_3

[Angry Dragon]

1. The owner used to work for the KGB

348th richest in the world

[julian09]

2. Is this a Rupert Murdock newspaper? mischief nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. The Observer, no

though it is right of center. That it is... and the mirror image of the Guardian in some ways.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Kick

[JaneyVee]

5. The author wrote an entire article without naming any "credible sources". Clue #1

[joshcryer]

6. "senior diplomatic sources" = right wingers trying to discredit Obama

[Aerows]

10. Yep

and trying to start a whisper campaign based on gossip because Romney failed so catastrophically.

[TwilightGardener]

7. I have a hard time believing they wouldn't have acted on intelligence

about a planned or imminent attack. I'm sure security had already been heightened just because of the date.

[Jennicut]

8. So....just who were the "senior diplomatic sources"?

Anyone want to guess?

Neocons advising Romney, perhaps?

[Aerows]

9. Romney failed

to look like a foreign policy leader.

Let's start a whisper campaign. If we let this shit stand, a whisper campaign, we should be ashamed.

That's all this bullshit is, is conspiracy theory, gossip, laden with RW lies.