President Obama has troubled his position by calling the attack on his ambassador Christopher Steven and three other American to death last month. Obama called it a terrorist attack and put himself in great difficulty as the elections are coming up.
American crossroads, pointed out the contradiction into the words of Obama administration where on the one side they called it “an act of terrorism” and later Denys it. The memo has been send out as follows
The President clearly misled the American people with this claim, because if Obama’s Rose Garden speech was indeed the White House position, it did not inform any subsequent statement by the White House press office — and was even directly contradicted by his own spokesman several days later.
On September 20 — eight days after Obama claims to have called the Benghazi attack an “act of terror” — Jay Carney affirmed to reporters that the White House had never called it “a terrorist attack.”
From the gaggle on Air Force One, en route to Miami, 9/20/2012:
Q: Can you — have you called it a terrorist attack before? Have you said that?
MR. CARNEY: I haven’t, but — I mean, people attacked our embassy. It’s an act of terror by definition.
Q: Yes, I just hadn’t heard you —
MR. CARNEY: It doesn’t have to do with what date it occurred.
Q: No, I just hadn’t heard the White House say that this was an act of terrorism or a terrorist attack. And I just —
MR. CARNEY: I don’t think the fact that we hadn’t is not — as our NCTC Director testified yesterday, a number of different elements appear to have been involved in the attack, including individuals connected to militant groups that are prevalent in eastern Libya, particularly in the Benghazi area. We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to al Qaeda or al Qaeda’s affiliates, in particular al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Here, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney actually affirmed Gov. Romney’s position that the White House did not call the Benghazi attack an act of terrorism. Carney also said the now infamous video “precipitated some of the unrest in Benghazi” the day before. (WP deception, 18)
After the attack on the United States consulate the position of Obama has become “untenable.” Obama has called the attack an act of terrorism and engaged the nation with this statement and later after weeks he claimed that it was a spontaneous reaction to protest against the anti-Islamic film.
According to a report in Reuters, Obama administration claimed that they were not prepared for the attack as it was all spontaneous.
It has been observed that, there were several hints regarding the attack on the U.S. consulate in the beginning but opposition says that Obama administration took it lightly and prepared no measured in this regard to tighten the security. Now after the attack, Obama came up with many contradictory statements which has troubled his position so much that now he can easily opt out.
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