There were many rich moments in former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor’s interview Thursday on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier about the Benghazi scandal. Certainly his exasperated protest–”Dude, this was like two years ago”–summarizes the callow nature of the Obama administration (one could almost hear the next Peggy Noonan column being written as the words left the youthful Vietor’s mouth). Yet there were also interesting moments from a forensic perspective. Vietor disputed the testimony of retired Brig. Gen. Robert Lovell to the House Oversight Committee on Thursday that, in his capacity as chief officer of intelligence for AFRICOM, he knew very soon after the Benghazi assault began that it was a terror attack and not a “demonstration gone awry”–and that the information had been passed up the chain of command. “Respectfully to the general,” Vietor told Baier, “That’s just not accurate. There’s no way anyone knew definitively the motivations of the attackers that evening.” He added: “I don’t think we know definitively today.” Though he admitted that the initial claim that there had been demonstrations in Benghazi had been wrong, Vietor stuck to the White House line that it had been legitimate to blame the video for the Benghazi attack.
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 20:08:07 +0000
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