Benghazi Consulate Attack, Ambassador Chris Stevens Death
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed during an assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama initially attributed the violence to an inflammatory internet movie trailer. Analysis of official statements suggests the State Department may have been caught off guard by a failed intelligence operation or a pre-planned attack rather than a spontaneous protest.
chris stevens· benghazi· libya· hillary clinton· barack obama· state department· bbc
00:00 it's not enough and it will do nothing. Ready for a bad acting revolution here in the capital of the drone star state, it's Austin Tejas in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm contemplating baking a cake with a fish in it, I'm John C. DeMora. You know that's that's just like David Letterman where he'll start the show off with something and you have no idea what he's talking about and you'll never know because you weren't in the audience at warm-up. Yeah, I know he does it almost every show. Yeah. Yeah, he makes some reference to Iowa. There's something in the audience cracking up. Yeah, it was so funny. So funny.
00:53 Hey, uh, boy, I'm- I'm very worried. Now he's gone and done it, John. It's- it's finally happened. We have finally shown the rest of the world that we do have really, really shitty movie production, and boy are they pissed. They're- hey, wait a minute! Where's- Have you seen that thing? Yes, of course! Where's Angelina Jolie? Wait a minute, hold on a second! The most important thing! I mean, this is- this is- this is why everyone's angry.
01:29 They're like, what the hell are you guys doing? This is not your normal movie propaganda. This sucks. Yes, I have seen, in case you're listening to this sometime in the future. Which is more likely than not nowadays. Yeah, we are referring to the uprising of anger against the United States of Gitmo Nation for a really, really bad movie. Which I think it's just a trailer. It's a trend. Did you see the trailer? No, I couldn't find it. Oh really now you're kidding me. No, I saw it. I actually pulled some some quotes from it. I'm like We've got to play some of this I think we need to write off the bad just look at the evidence that we have and Look at where this is coming from because one thing we know it's not no well actually explain what you're talking about to begin with which is the assassination of
02:26 Ambassador well see that's interesting that you already put it that way you say it's an assassination of an ambassador as if this was a predetermined setup to kill the ambassador in Libya so here oh I oh did I say it that way that's exactly how you said it you said it that way well let's before we go well you go on with your analysis but a couple of things I want to make I think we have evidence and then we have analysis. I think there's a lot of things going on here and if anything October came early this year that's for sure. Well, you know I have a couple of... well go ahead, go ahead with what you're saying and let me get... I have to download my clips into my... just talk, sorry. Okay.
03:14 Talk, sorry. Talk, talk, talk. This monkey boy will jump and dance for you now. Talk, monkey boy. I'm dancing, I'm dancing. Okay, so here's what happened. On September 11th, for those of you who don't know, all of a sudden we had all kinds of things taking place, primarily two embassies, one in Cairo and one in Libya. Embassy, by the way, is kind of a big word for the building that is... Compounds, yeah. It's not even a compound. And I think ambassador may also be a really big word. And what winds up happening is that we have all kinds of people angry in Cairo and yelling and shouting in front of the embassy, not anything new, but then the quote-unquote embassy in the unprotected embassy, I might add, in Libya is burned and the ambassador dies. Still very unclear exactly what happened.
04:06 along with a, I love this, senior chief intelligence professional or whatever his title is, i.e. spy. That's when you're an information, you're a spy. And then two other undefined people. So all very, very unclear what exactly happened. There was not a lot of real response. Then all of a sudden everyone starts talking about this. And I guess what really got everyone's attention is when President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came out and started talking about it. And they immediately
04:47 attributed this to a movie trailer on the interwebs called Innocence of Muslims and I think what I should do because we have to look at evidence first of the empirical facts that we have in the way of sound clips and then I think we can start to analyze it. Here's Lucifer I'm sorry, Hillary Clinton, and she, in her statement yesterday where she is eulogizing the ambassador to Libya, she references this movie. We are working to determine the precise motivations and methods of those who carried out this assault.
05:30 Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior along with the protest that took place at our embassy in Cairo yesterday as a response to inflammatory material posted on the internet. Now the way she said this John, leads me to believe that she was not involved in it. Because she's saying some will believe, she's... I don't... I'm pretty sure that that the... this cover story of The movie posted on the internet, the trailer, did not come from the State Department. Just listening to what she's saying there, what do you think? I, uh, well actually I noticed this about her, this whole episode, she is extremely annoyed. Yes. As if whatever, in fact I have a clip where she's annoyed and then, the BBC is
06:23 I don't know what their involvement is. Well, their partner is ABC. That's what they keep saying. Our partner in America, ABC. That's like, oh, OK, I got some bells ringing there. But Clinton seemed as if she was really mad about this. So whatever scheme she had afoot, if there was any, this wasn't it. Correct. And so she was angry, so I would assume, and she was, I mean, steaming angry. What's your BBC thing? I want to hear it. I got a couple of funny BBC things. One of them is, since we're on the topic, the tidbit, because apparently people aren't getting the big picture here. So let's drop in a tidbit when we do our tease for the story which is the BBC report on Ambassador has tidbit for you idiots. A tidbit? By the way what is the etymology of tidbit? Is this like a small bit of a tid?
07:15 No American ambassador has been killed in the line of duty since 1979. But today the flags have been put at half-mast here in honor of Chris Stevens. The US ambassador to Libya and three other diplomats were killed in a raid on the American consulate in Benghazi. The White House is investigating whether the attack was planned and President Obama has promised to bring the killers to justice. Our Middle East editor, Jeremy Booth. Yes, so the tidbit of course is a throwback to 1979 and this of course was the Reagan hostage situation, am I correct? Carter. Carter. Carter. But right, but then Reagan came in and saved the day. Yeah, in 81.
07:55 Right, but the hostages... The guy was killed in 79 and then they had... if you remember... here's a... here's... people don't... nobody remembers... This is the October surprise. This is why... The October surprise took place... well actually it was longer than an October surprise. It took place a year earlier and they grabbed American hostages and they kept them for damn... maybe over a year and ABC Nightline with Frank Reynolds had decided to make this stupid blunder of we are going to cover this every day until it's resolved and they went on to like this is day 306 and so the show was ruined. Nightline was ruined and they had to bring in Ted Koppel and get rid of Reynolds because this stupid idea of doing this. So it went on forever and then they finally got the hostages out and then the October surprise was actually us getting them out
08:47 I think Carter tried to get him out and the whole thing is that Reagan and people that I'm familiar with held back on the rescue. They said, hey guys, hold on to them a little bit. We're going to get Reagan in. Boom yes, that's that's the that's the theory scenario. That's the very last minute by the way the weather one which is Hillary moaning about this situation I thought the BBC was a little I've just another little small clip, but it's a little bit of a side note But it's Hillary is being teased it is another teaser and then they jumped to a tease of some other topic that I thought the juxtaposition of these two stories
09:33 uh... was a bit uh... with the black uh... taste ambassador this happened in a country we helped liberate in a city we helped save from destruction for being gay a BBC investigation well it's so funny because that was actually my next clip is this is exactly this today many americans are asking indeed i asked myself How could this happen?
10:08 How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction? Well, it's not because you're gay, although I think the juxtaposition, as you said, is very funny. Maybe this will ring a bell. Unconfirmed, yes. We came, we saw, he died. Maybe that would be, maybe, I don't know. I mean, that could have something to do with it. It's just a thought there. Just a thought. I don't think so. Good dig. Not bad, huh? Get that one out of the archives. Had to get it out pretty quickly. So very, very, very interesting. There's all these really weird
