On the eve of Wednesday’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the terrorist attack against the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama administration’s already tenuous story of what had happened there on Sept. 11 completely unraveled. Knowing officials would be questioned the following day under oath, the State Department hastily arranged a conference call for the press to admit there was never any anti-American protest staged outside the Benghazi mission — just an organized attack by well-armed militants. Four Americans were killed in the attack, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Asked why senior officials had said in the immediate aftermath of the attack that it was related to an anti-Islam video, a department spokesperson replied: “That was not our conclusion. We don’t necessarily have a conclusion [about that].”
