...then why scrub the memo issued by the US department of State, dated September 6th, announcing no credible security threats to our embassies on the anniversary of 9-11? That’s right, a blogger caught the change and posted it.
The US State department issues a memo to its embassies indicating there are no credible threats for the anniversary of 9/11. There are no marines stationed in Benghazi to protect the ambassador. The administration is insiting the attack was some random act of outrage over some obscure six months old you Tube video.
But the Libyan President says he has no doubt the attack was planned months in advance (also here). Al Qaeda is now claiming it was a planned retribution. A Local security official in Libya says he warned the US of the deteriorating security situation 3 days before the attack. Attackers worked in concert, with heavy weapons, knew where to be and where to go. The Serbian consulate wants to know why the Obama administration posted a Gay ambassador in a Muslim country. And now the original State Department memo no longer includes any mention of there being no credible threats, that Al Qaeda was not “plotting any kind of attack overseas” on the anniversary of 9-11.
Here is the scrubbed portion from the memo issued by the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), part of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security under the U.S. Department of State ( can also be seen here.)
From “Speak with Authority”
Note that the Terrorism and Important Dates memo is listed after Major Events Monthly (July/August 2012) and before Cyber Awareness Bulletin: September 6, 2012. Now here is the current version of that page as of Friday, September 14, 2012:
(follow link to see both full versions)
“…note that although there are three new entries, there is nothing listed in between Major Events Monthly (July/August 2012) and Cyber Awareness Bulletin: September 6, 2012. The Terrorism and Important Dates memo is gone. Advancing the list to include more and older entries yields no results, either. A Google search for “Terrorism and Important Dates” on the website returns four hits, but the memo cannot be found by clicking on any of them. All have been updated and no longer contain the memo or any reference to it.”
So I’ll ask it again. If the attack was not preplanned, why scrub the memo saying there were no credible threats? Is it worse to be wrong (no threats), or to be incompetent (couldn’t see them coming), or to get caught trying to hide it that you were wrong and/or incompetent….or is there any difference at this point?
H/T Gateway Pundit
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