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It's been well established that this protest narrative came from the CIA, who had genuine reason to believe it, although it turned out false. And of course the

It's been well established that this protest narrative came from the CIA, who had genuine reason to believe it, although it turned out false. And of course there were emails somewhere of people predicting violence or complaining about embassy security. It's the same as those italian scientists put on trial because somebody somewhere predicted an earthquake that they didn't predict. I bet if you go through all the mail the US government gets, you'll find predictions of CERN turning into a black whole and swallowing the known universe. Does that mean the Air Force should bomb Switzerland?

jwtadvice 10y ago
It's been well established that Clinton knew that this narrative of what happened was completely false when she announced it to the public. This is standard leadership in America. I think it's unfair to skewer her in a biased way when most public diplomacy is just as duplicitous. For example, the misinformation out of the Bush Administation linking in the American publics' minds Saddam Hussein with the 9/11 attacks. Republicans largly supported this falsehood and the Bush Administrations executive privilege to tell it. It was well known that the attacks (between 9/11 and 9/12 in Benghazi) where extremist salafi. The protest over the videos were in a completely different country. The intelligence community and the leadership knew this. I don't want to comment on the next paragraph as I don't understand it or how it is supposed to relate to the topic.
- kn0where 10y ago
  This. The saying that politics is like sausage, in that you don't want to see how it's made, has always been true. Also: "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” — Douglas Adams [1] [1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2416-the-major-problem-mdash-one-of-the-major-problems-for-there-are http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2416-the-major-problem-mdash...

jwtadvice 10y ago

It's been well established that Clinton knew that this narrative of what happened was completely false when she announced it to the public. This is standard leadership in America. I think it's unfair to skewer her in a biased way when most public diplomacy is just as duplicitous. For example, the misinformation out of the Bush Administation linking in the American publics' minds Saddam Hussein with the 9/11 attacks. Republicans largly supported this falsehood and the Bush Administrations executive privilege to tell it. It was well known that the attacks (between 9/11 and 9/12 in Benghazi) where extremist salafi. The protest over the videos were in a completely different country. The intelligence community and the leadership knew this. I don't want to comment on the next paragraph as I don't understand it or how it is supposed to relate to the topic.

kn0where 10y ago
This. The saying that politics is like sausage, in that you don't want to see how it's made, has always been true. Also: "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” — Douglas Adams [1] [1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2416-the-major-problem-mdash-one-of-the-major-problems-for-there-are http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2416-the-major-problem-mdash...