{"id":14177,"date":"2012-10-24T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-24T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:30:15","slug":"e_mails_show_obama_knew_what_happened_in_benghazi_as_it_happened_took_no_action_to_save_lives_and_then_lied_about_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/10\/24\/e_mails_show_obama_knew_what_happened_in_benghazi_as_it_happened_took_no_action_to_save_lives_and_then_lied_about_it\/","title":{"rendered":"E-mails Show Obama Knew What Happened in Benghazi as It Happened, Took No Action to Save Lives — and Then Lied About It"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: It\u2019s so devastating you can\u2019t find it anywhere. You can\u2019t find it outside of a little blurb on CBS. You can\u2019t find it anywhere after Reuters publishes it. Fox has got it. I\u2019ve got it. Fox had it last night. This whole Benghazi thing is blown wide open, and nobody\u2019s talking about it. <\/p>\n

Let me give you the overview of this, and then we\u2019ll set it aside for just a second. I want to do a couple things first and we\u2019ll come back to it. But the latest shoe to drop in the Benghazi disaster — and this, to me, is huge. It is overwhelmingly huge. This dwarfs Watergate,<\/a> weapons of mass destruction, whatever. I mean, that wasn\u2019t even a controversy or a scandal. This dwarfs Iran-Contra, about which the media spent three solid years trying to take out Ronald Reagan. The latest shoe to drop in the Benghazi disaster is the news that the State Department was e-mailing about the attack on the consulate and the terrorists who they thought were behind it within two hours, and the e-mails went to the Situation Room of the White House. <\/p>\n

Obama knew. <\/p>\n

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Now, the regime\u2019s excuse is, well, there\u2019s all kinds of stuff coming in there, and it took awhile for it to be sifted. They tried this excuse when we were told that the CIA station chief had sent an e-mail. This is the second bit of evidence now that the White House was told practically immediately what was going on and who was behind it. But the news now is that we have a terror group, Ansar al-Sharia, whatever, claiming credit for it, within two hours. They were holding up their hands saying: Hey, look over here, it\u2019s us. And, by the way, it isn\u2019t a video that has us mad. Oh, and, by the way, we\u2019re just doing this since it\u2019s 9\/11 and we know we can get away with it \u2019cause we hate you. <\/p>\n

Folks, this is disqualifying to me, and it is being swept under the rug. You won\u2019t find news of this in the New York Times. You don\u2019t find CNN covering it. You will not find MSNBC covering it. They are covering this up. They are burying this. They\u2019re trying to do everything they can to make it look like it isn\u2019t any big deal. The White House had little response, “Well, there\u2019s so much stuff coming in here, it\u2019s impossible to keep up with.” The State Department was e-mailing within two hours of this attack right to the Situation Room in the White House, and they were telling the White House the terror group they thought was behind it because the terror group was claiming credit, claiming responsibility. <\/p>\n

Now, the attack lasted for five hours, a total of seven hours this attack lasted. Two of the four Americans were killed in the final hours. There was plenty of time to take action to save some of these people. And yet I remember Obama in the second debate righteously indignant, (imitating Obama) “Governor Romney, if you think that I would have done nothing, let Americans die, that is offensive.” It\u2019s exactly what happened. It is precisely what happened. And even if you want to say, “Well, maybe it didn\u2019t reach all the way up to Obama.” So? It reached somebody. They\u2019re sitting in the White House. You\u2019ve got to put yourself there. You\u2019re in the White House. You know what\u2019s going on because earlier in the day in Cairo all kinds of hell broke loose after we issued an apology for something that hadn\u2019t yet happened. Then it really breaks loose in Benghazi. <\/p>\n

So you know it\u2019s 9\/11, you\u2019re on alert anyway. You find out what\u2019s happening, and you don\u2019t do anything. You\u2019re told that there is an attack by a terror group going on in our consulate in Benghazi, and you don\u2019t do anything, and you don\u2019t pass it on to Obama. Keep a sharp eye on Hillary Clinton on this, because I will lay you a dollar to a doughnut that whenever this is exposed, she will have covered her tracks, and probably somewhere in a file waiting to be discovered, is that she took every bit of action she could to avenge this and was turned down. She alerted the White House. She did everything she was supposed to do. She\u2019s falling on the sword now<\/a>, but that\u2019s for the campaign. But she\u2019s not gonna take the fall for this. Bill Clinton and Hillary are not gonna let her take the fall for this. Somebody\u2019s gonna take the fall for this at some point. <\/p>\n

Now, the weird thing is, again, I want to point out, these e-mails from the State Department and CIA station chief, there are two sets of e-mails, folks, within two hours of the attack, going to the White House, and in both instances the White House said, “Well, we didn\u2019t know. There\u2019s so much stuff coming in here.” CIA station chief, now the State Department. Plus they were watching it on a video. We had a drone. They were watching it. There was live video. They knew what was going on. And you know what weird thing is, these e-mails that were going from the CIA station chief and the e-mails from the State Department the video that was being seen from the drone, these e-mails made no mention of earlier protests. The e-mails didn\u2019t say, “By the way, there was a protest going on out here earlier today and it\u2019s gotten out of hand and, oh, my God, all hell\u2019s breaking loose.” There was no mention of a protest in the e-mail. <\/p>\n

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And you know what else? There was no mention of a video in the e-mails. The e-mails didn\u2019t say, “There\u2019s a video out there that\u2019s got everybody over here all riled up and it\u2019s getting out of control.” There was none of that. There was no protest. There was no video. Isn\u2019t that weird? The president of the United States said it was a video six times to the UN, and how many times to the people of this country on the campaign trail? He flew outta town knowing full well what happened. He went to bed knowing what happened. The president of the United States went to bed knowing what happened. I gotta tell you something quite telling. I had a conversation with a couple people last night, and by the way, they\u2019re solid, they\u2019re with us, ideologically, politically. The story becomes known and we start discussing it, “Why wouldn\u2019t Obama do anything?” <\/p>\n

I said, “You really want to know?” <\/p>\n

“Yeah.”<\/p>\n

Okay, here\u2019s why. A, we asked the Libyans for permission, and they denied us, so we said, “Okay.” But the second reason we didn\u2019t do anything is because Obama was putting politics first, and these people said, “I can\u2019t believe that. I just can\u2019t believe it.” <\/p>\n

“Well, that\u2019s your problem because that\u2019s exactly what happened.” And I think this is a problem a lot of people have with this story is they just can\u2019t believe that the president… it\u2019s just like… you may get mad at me for bringing this up but it\u2019s worth it, this makes the same point. Last night Rachel Maddow was on Letterman, and Letterman was feeling betrayed by Obama because Obama lied about Romney and Detroit in the debate<\/a>, and Letterman was very let down over this. And Letterman said to Maddow, “But it\u2019s the president. It\u2019s the challenger who lies. The president tells us the truth.” <\/p>\n