Leon Panetta Speaks About Benghazi, Reveals Something He Said He Knew From the ‘Very Beginning’ (+video)
Photo Credit: Cliff OwenBy Oliver Darcy.
Former CIA director Leon Panetta said Tuesday that he knew from the “very beginning” that Benghazi was a “terrorist attack on our compound.”
Speaking with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell about his new book, Panetta was reacting to a question about why immediately following the assault he didn’t think attribute it to a spontaneous demonstration like General David Petraeus.
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Panetta: Obama Told Benghazi Was Terrorist Attack
By Greg Richter.
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he immediately told President Barack Obama that the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, was carried out by terrorists.
Panetta is on a whirlwind of media interviews to promote his new book, “Worthy Fights,” which contains several criticisms of the president.
Panetta appeared Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” during which host Bill O’Reilly played a clip from his Feb. 2 interview with Obama. In that interview, Obama would not admit that Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey told him the Benghazi attacks involved terrorists.
Panetta told O’Reilly a different version: “We told the president that there’s an attack that’s going on, that terrorists are involved in the attack, and, as a result, we have to respond to it.”
Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed in the attack.
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