De-classified Benghazi testimony: The video didn’t do it

Published January 15, 2014 5:00am ET



Scanning the transcripts of the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi terror attack testimony released this week by congressional committee investigators makes this point quite clear: The video definitely didn’t do it.

I am referring to the bizarre blame-tale spun by the Obama administration and repeated in the days following the terror attack. For those with dim memories, here’s the plot sketch: A crude anti-Islam Internet video produced by California crank Nakoula Basseley Nakoula incited peaceful Libyan demonstrators. Provoked by an egregious but First Amendment-protected sacrilege virally defiling the World Wide Web, the inflamed citizens of Benghazi spontaneously grabbed automatic rifles, fragmentation grenades and handy rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and impulsively launched coordinated attacks on a conveniently accessible American diplomatic outpost.

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