Michael A. Walsh
More than two months after an Islamist attack on the
American consulate in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, including
US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, we still don’t know what really
happened that night — and, thanks to a secretive White House and an
incurious Washington press corps, we probably never will. Not
officially, that is.
But there’s no real mystery about it. From
the evidence that’s emerged in dribs and drabs since the Sept. 11
calamity, it’s clear that Ansar al-Sharia, a Libyan al Qaeda-affiliated
group coordinating with its allies elsewhere in the Muslim world, used
the cover of riots in Cairo to launch a preplanned assault on our
lightly guarded Benghazi consulate and a CIA safe house that may have
been doubling as a secret prison.
That much was clear to our intelligence community almost immediately —
and, in any case, should have been the working hypothesis from the
jump.
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