The whole "the attack could have been prevented" makes for catchy headlines but what attack couldn't have been prevented in hindsight? I looked beyond the headline and was concerned about the substance.
It seems like the NYT article is meshing with the Senate report and Mike Rodgers said he hasn't read the whole Senate report but he said it sounds pretty much the same as House Intelligence report but we will have to wait and see.
Something that doesn't get reported on much, according the Long War Journal, after the attack Ansar al-Sharia (Libya) released a statement saying,
According to
longwarjournal.org, the group issued a statement asserting that it "didn't participate as a sole entity," and that the attack "was a spontaneous popular uprising" to an
anti-Islam film.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansar_al-Sharia_(Benghazi)
Of course they didn't Scott. Between them and wikipedia, I believe them both.
Again, I ask you jut how was it this was released within 24 hrs of the attack, with all of our allied intel sources knowing the truth, and this administration, can sit there, with a straight face, look at the American people in the eye and engage in the denials, story lines and cover ups since?
It was about November 6th and the fact this president had said as a nation, Al Q was no longer a serious threat was on the ropes and on the run. Remember how he repeatedly reminded us that he had killed Osama Bin Laden and in doing so Al Qaeda was weakened to the point they were no longer considered a viable threat?
He then went on after the attacks to reiterate that very same talking point, time and again, until after his election and continued to hang his hat on the "Video" story line. After all, to admit he was wrong at the point, might have cost him the election. And now, in an effort to protect hillary's future, first, Rice gets promoted to a position where she can no longer be called to testify (Absolute coincidence, and how convenient, right?) The investigation committee is continually stonewalled by the state department either producing witnesses or documents this entire time.
Transparency my ass. It's now about 2016 and covering it in an effort to give that mealy mouthed liar a shot at the WH and this presidents rep.
Again, this from September 12, 2012. (ONE DAY AFTER) And yet, here we are still, over a year later.....
The US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three staff members at the US consulate in Benghazi were deliberately murdered Tuesday night Sept 11 just after memorial ceremonies were held in America for the victims of the 9/11 outrage. debkafile's counter-terror sources report exclusively that far from being a spontaneous raid by angry Islamists, it was a professionally executed terrorist operation by a professional Al Qaeda assassination team, whose 20 members acted under the orders of their leader Ayman al Zawahri after special training. They were all Libyans, freed last year from prisons where they were serving sentences for terrorism passed during the late Muammar Qaddafi's rule
In a video tape released a few hours before the attack, Zawahri called on the faithful to take revenge on the United States for liquidating one of the organization's top operatives, Libyan-born Abu Yahya al-Libi in June by a US drone in northwestern Pakistan. Its release was the "go" signal for the hit team to attack the US diplomats in Benghazi.
To mask their mission, they stormed the consulate on the back of a violent protest by hundreds of Islamists against a film said to insult Prophet Muhammed produced by a Florida real estate agent called Sam Bacile, who has been described as of Israeli origin.
The operation is rated by terror experts as the most ambitious outrage al Qaeda has pulled off in the last decade. According to our sources, the gunmen split into two groups of 10 each and struck in two stages:
1. They first fired rockets at the consulate building on the assumption that the ambassador's bodyguards would grab him, race him out of the building and drive him to a safe place under the protection of the US secret service;
2. The second group was able to identify the getaway vehicle and the ambassador's armed escort and lay in wait to ambush them. The gunmen then closed in and killed the ambassador and his bodyguards at point blank range.
The underlined is the bottom line for the motive behind the attack in Benghazi. Not Egypt or anywhere else, but
BENGHAZI.
, but seriously, .50 cal, SAF, RPG, and mortar fire sounds like a spontaneous actions caused by outrage from a movie. 
