Moot
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No they didn't. Coming the day after Brigadier General Lovell's testimony you have to have your head way way up in fantasy clouds or buried far into the sand to not know that. I'd say good try, but it was strictly speaking a pathetic try.
Actually, it was the CIA who thought the attack was a result of the protests.
"....Morell also detailed the sequence of events in which he learned that the CIA's initial assessment, that there had been a protest outside the U.S. installation and extremists had made an "opportunistic" attack. He said the assessment was made based on news and intelligence reports made in the days following the attack, and it was not until four days later, on September 15, that he received an email from the station chief saying there was no protest...."
In the end, Morell said, it is still unclear if the YouTube video may have been part of the motivation behind the attack. Instead, he said analysts believe it could have been related to the video or revenge for the death of al Qaida leader Abu Yahya al-Libi.
“We never thought that a protest and a terrorist attack were mutually exclusive," Morell said, adding, "There’s a difference between what it was, which was a terrorist attack, and what motivated it. Those are two completely different things."......
Read more: Former CIA director Morell denies misleading American people on Benghazi - UPI.com
Gen. Lowell contradicts the CIA testimony. But how would he know what the motivation for the attack was considering the guys who did the attack have never been caught? It doesn't look like Issa is too interested in catching them either....why, because they might contradict him and ruin his circus act?
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