Four More?

Jake Tapper* continues tracking the administration's crafty response to the dead Americans killed in Libya on September 11. (Btw, today the alleged filmmaker behind all this overseas mess was arrested and surely will be brought to justice: "We got him." *thump, thump, thump.*)

Campaigning in Virginia Beach today, President Obama seemed eager to paint the terrorist threat as waning. “Al Qaeda’s on the path to defeat,” he said. “Bin Laden is dead.”

But the Daily Beast’s Eli Lake on Wednesday reported that intelligence officials said “the early information was enough to show that the attack was planned and the work of al Qaeda affiliates operating in Eastern Libya.” “There was very good information on this in the first 24 hours,” one of the officials told Lake.
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It’s certainly possible that intelligence officials wouldn’t want the terrorists to know that the U.S. knew about them, but that does beg the question as to why White House officials seemed to strongly suggest the attack was merely the work of an unruly mob.

I'm going to take an educated guess here, Jake:
The President is prioritizing, putting campaign politics in play before his presidential work. Why, look at the way the press initially bought in: they condemned Romney, the not-yet president, a mere campaigner himself, for his initial response, while once again giving the president a free pass...

President Obama has repeatedly said the investigation is on to find the killers and bring them to justice. But as first reported by CNN, ABC news has learned that the FBI — which has been dispatched to Libya to take the lead in the investigation — has not even reached Benghazi yet.

(I'm gonna take a pass at noting the comparison to OJ Simpson's hunt for justice for Nicole and Ron's killer... that'd be racist, right? Even if the link is not the color of the two mens' skin, but rather the funny way that one was worded. Sorry, just jumped out at me.)

A spokeswoman for Ambassador Rice, Erin Pelton, issued a statement to ABC News regarding her appearances on THIS WEEK and other Sunday shows on September 16, saying Ambassador Rice’s comments in those interviews “were prefaced at every turn with a clear statement that an FBI investigation was underway that would provide the definitive accounting of the events that took place in Benghazi. At every turn Ambassador Rice provided — and said she was providing — the best information and the best assessment that the Administration had at the time, based on what was provided to Ambassador Rice and other senior U.S. officials by the U.S. intelligence community.”

OK, so candidate Romney's response was initially more correct then, because he himself had better information or instincts already about the situation. I'm sure the press can find some way to spin that one into a negative too, if they only put their collective minds together and get working on it already...

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* Aside, did you know Monica Lewinsky dated Tapper before she started dating President Clinton? Bad choice there, Monica. (cite: Monica's Story. Not a recent read; Jake's name just jogged my memory...)