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The John Bolton Acknowledgment That Should End The Benghazi Scandal Mongering

Mytzlplk

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but it didn't and won't, because some of the most stupid still insist that no efforts of this kind were made at all.

Why do ignorant rightwingnuts pretend to know about stuff they clearly are ignorant about?

A key aspect of the right's conspiracy theory posits that an Obama administration official refused to send reinforcements to the Benghazi diplomatic outpost to defend Americans under sustained attack by terrorists. It's been amply established at this point that a team of reinforcements was dispatched from Tripoli, where the main embassy is located, to Benghazi, some 400 miles away, after the attacks began. That security team arrived after a first attack ended, the attack that ended in the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, but before a second attack began.

Bolton, appearing on the May 8 edition of Fox News' Happening Now, took issue with the decision not to send a second reinforcement team to Benghazi - a central component of hyper-partisan congressional hearings underway this week. Critics of the administration have pointed to that decision as evidence that it abandoned Americans who were under attack. But the additional reinforcements would not have been able to get to the Benghazi compound before the second attack was concluded. Here's Bolton's response:​

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/05/08/the-john-bolton-acknowledgment-that-should-end/193964
 
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