Bombshell in the Benghazi e-mails: The CIA warned of impending jihadist attack
Special to WorldTribune.com
The White House recently released more than 100 pages of e-mails between the CIA, State Department and the White House regarding the now infamous talking points.
President Barack Obama insists "there is no there, there," as he stated during a May 13 press conference. Yet, the opposite is true. There is a bombshell there.
Thousands of Egyptian protesters demonstrate outside U.S. embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11, 2012. /AP
The CIA had warned on Sept. 10, 2012, one day before the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, of the possibility of a jihadist attack on an American embassy.
We now know that on Sept. 15, 2012, when then-CIA Director David Petraeus read the final version of the talking points, he wrote in an e-mail: "No mention of the cable to Cairo, either? I'd just as soon not use this, then…NSS's (National Security Staff) call to be sure…"
At that point, all references to the perpetrators of the Benghazi attack, Ansar al-Sharia, a Libyan Al Qaida affiliate, had been redacted. The cable to Cairo contained a warning that Al Qaida-linked jihadists might strike the American embassy there, according to The Weekly Standard.
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