White House spokesman Jay Carney on Friday fended off critical questions about the spreading Arab crisis by blaming a little-seen Youtube video
for the attacks, and by asking Americans to line up behind President
Barack Obama in mourning the four Americans murdered in Libya.
Obama attended the televised 2.15 p.m. fly-in of the four caskets at Andrews Air Force Base, amid growing reports about intelligence and bureaucratic failures, and increasing GOP criticism of his high-risk support for Islamic parties.
Media outlets have reported that officials ignored or missed intelligence warnings about impending attacks, that the U.S. staff in Libya had little protection and few U.S. guards, and that the embassy in Cairo tried to protect itself from the Islamist rioters by labeling the satirical Youtube video as an “abuse” of free speech.
The criticism “has been both factually wrong and poorly timed,” Carney complained, adding that “now is time when Americans should be coming together.”
“There was no intelligence that in any way that could have been acted on to prevent these attacks,” he insisted.
But Obama is distancing himself from Egypt’s Islamist president, Mohamad Morsi.
In August, media reports said the president was planning to meet Morsi during an upcoming United Nations Meeting in New York.
Obama attended the televised 2.15 p.m. fly-in of the four caskets at Andrews Air Force Base, amid growing reports about intelligence and bureaucratic failures, and increasing GOP criticism of his high-risk support for Islamic parties.
Media outlets have reported that officials ignored or missed intelligence warnings about impending attacks, that the U.S. staff in Libya had little protection and few U.S. guards, and that the embassy in Cairo tried to protect itself from the Islamist rioters by labeling the satirical Youtube video as an “abuse” of free speech.
The criticism “has been both factually wrong and poorly timed,” Carney complained, adding that “now is time when Americans should be coming together.”
“There was no intelligence that in any way that could have been acted on to prevent these attacks,” he insisted.
But Obama is distancing himself from Egypt’s Islamist president, Mohamad Morsi.
In August, media reports said the president was planning to meet Morsi during an upcoming United Nations Meeting in New York.
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