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State Department: Stop asking us about the Benghazi attack | The Cable
It's not a "crime scene." It's the site of an act of war and an egregious security breach.
Preposterous. Will the press give them this pass? They shouldn't.
"I'm going to frustrate all of you, infinitely, by telling you that now that we have an open FBI investigation on the death of these four Americans, we are not going to be in a position to talk at all about what the U.S. government may or may not be learning about how any of this this happened -- not who they were, not how it happened, not what happened to Ambassador Stevens, not any of it -- until the Justice Department is ready to talk about the investigation that's its got," State Department spokeswoman Victorian Nuland told reporters late Friday afternoon.
"So I'm going to send to the FBI for those kinds of questions and they're probably not going to talk to you about it," she said.
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"I will make a personal pledge to you that if I become aware that information we gave that first night is radically wrong in a way that you deserve to know, I will do my best to get that information to you," Nuland said. "But I have to respect the fact that this is now a crime scene."
It's not a "crime scene." It's the site of an act of war and an egregious security breach.
Preposterous. Will the press give them this pass? They shouldn't.