Friday, in response to questions regarding the events of September 11 in Benghazi, President Obama said this: "Nobody
wants to find out more what happened than I do. But we want to make
sure we get it right, particularly because I have made a commitment to
the families impacted as well as to the American people, we're going to
bring those folks to justice. So, we're going to gather all the facts,
find out exactly what happened, and make sure that it doesn't happen
again but we're also going to make sure that we bring to justice those
who carried out these attacks."
The interviewer followed up: "Were they denied requests for help during the attack?”
The president responded: "Well, we are finding out
exactly what happened. I can tell you, as I've said over the last couple
of months since this happened, the minute I found out what was
happening, I gave three very clear directives. Number one, make sure
that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to. Number
two, we're going to investigate exactly what happened so that it
doesn't happen again. Number three, find out who did this so we can
bring them to justice. And I guarantee you that everyone in the state
department, our military, the CIA, you name it, had number one priority
making sure that people were safe. These were our folks and we're going
to find out exactly what happened, but what we're also going to do it
make sure that we are identifying those who carried out these terrible
attacks."
THE WEEKLY STANDARD understands that it will take some time to "gather
all the facts" about what happened on the ground in Benghazi. But
presumably the White House already has all the facts about what happened
that afternoon and evening in Washington—or, at least, in the White
House. The president was, it appears, in the White House from the time
the attack on the consulate in Benghazi began, at around 2:40 pm ET,
until the end of combat at the annex, sometime after 9 p.m. ET. So it
should be possible to answer these simple questions as to what the
president did that afternoon and evening, and when he did it, simply by
consulting White House meeting and phone records, and asking the
president for his recollections.
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