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<\/a><\/p>\nRUSH: This is all very troubling. The Reuters story about these e-mails <\/a>says that they didn\u2019t get them from the State Department, and they didn\u2019t get the e-mails from the intelligence agencies. So, they got \u2019em somewhere. I don\u2019t know where. Somebody in the government leaked these e-mails. It\u2019s either somebody in the administration or somewhere, but the State Department didn\u2019t, and the intelligence agencies didn\u2019t, but clearly the purpose of this leak — and I don\u2019t know how you can come to any other conclusion — the purpose of the leak is to create the impression that we coulda done something and didn\u2019t, that everybody knew. The State Department knew they had a video. They were watching it real time. There was video from a drone that was showing everybody what was going on. There was video on the ground, somehow they had video, they were watching it. <\/p>\n Now, the story is today that within two hours a group, a terror group, was claiming credit for this. It was a seven-hour attack. Two of the dead four Americans were killed in the last hours. We had hours to get in there. We have assets only one hour away. We have plenty of military assets one hour away. We don\u2019t know if there was a drone up there, and we don\u2019t know if the drone was armed — or do we know that there was a drone? Actually, we do know that there was full motion video from a drone in a combat air patrol station over the consulate in Benghazi. We\u2019re hearing about that. And we had one woman call in, Laurie from Pittsburgh, wanted to know who has trigger authority. This is what everybody\u2019s wanting to know now. So this guy\u2019s got kids in the military, he\u2019s not accustomed to us leaving people behind. People are naturally taken in that direction with this leak. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m trying not to overstate this. But it really seems like a huge, big deal to me. When you couple with this the known lies that were constructed and told by the president, by his press secretary, by his United Nations ambassador. For a week, a video was blamed. The guy who produced the video is in jail<\/a>, and he will not be out until three days after the election, by the way, so we have a purposeful lie constructed and told that is ostensibly to explain what happened, and we now know that the official administration story isn\u2019t true. It is a bald-faced lie. And we know with the release of the e-mails that the people who were lying were lying because they knew what had happened. They knew that a video had nothing to do with this. They knew that there wasn\u2019t a protest that got out of hand. They knew that this was a coordinated terror attack and a group claimed credit for it within the first two hours. <\/p>\n We do not know the true nature of what happened to our people. We know that there were bloody handprints on the walls of the consulate. Foreign press has reported Fox had a great special on this over the weekend where they tried to reconstruct what happened. They had video inside the consulate after the attack showing the ransacking and the destruction, and they showed the pathway, they showed the places where the ambassador had gone for secure safety, and had been corrupted and where he had been gotten to, where he was dragged. They had it all. It is known where what happened, happened in that consulate. <\/p>\n But against all of this, now, is seven or eight days of Barack Obama and Jay Carney and everybody else in the administration lying and blaming it on the video. Now, this is the second call today from somebody who\u2019s expressed concern that we don\u2019t leave people behind. And the only reason people are thinking that, folks, is because the news now is that people at the highest levels of our government knew in real time what was going on, and they didn\u2019t lift a finger to stop it or to do anything about it. Now, you want to talk about hard to process. If people are having a tough time trying to understand that, they\u2019re gonna have an even tougher time being made to understand that that had to happen for a reason. <\/p>\n So up until today, when we got this phone call from Laurie in Pittsburgh, nobody was asking the question about the weapons on the UAV and who had the kill chain authority. Somebody in the Pentagon or the Situation Room in the White House watching that video — and believe me, they were — if the State Department was watching the video, believe me, they were watching it in the Situation Room. There were e-mails, there were phone calls, the people in the White House knew, real time, what was happening. Somebody there, somebody in this mix would know what the rules of engagement are. You and I don\u2019t. We don\u2019t know who has authority to okay a response. You know, authorize deployment of some of the resources and assets that we had, say, in Italy. We don\u2019t know if there were weapons on the drone that could have been fired. We have no idea. But somebody did. <\/p>\n Somebody could have authorized a retaliation here. And nobody did. So these are legitimate questions to have. But it\u2019s inexplicable. There\u2019s no explanation for this that makes rational, common sense. And nobody wants to think the worst, which, unfortunately, is where logic takes you. I mean, let me just run through this again, as any rational person would. Got the attack in Benghazi, took seven hours. We had four Americans dead. There were 30 Americans there under attack, under assault. We know that the ambassador was taken to a safe house or a safe room, actually, in the compound. It was not to a safe house, a safe room that was compromised. <\/p>\n We hired local security, we hired local bodyguards. We did not have professional US military on site. We did not have armed US military on site, didn\u2019t want to offend the Libyans, didn\u2019t want to make the world think that we thought there was still terrorism out there. Barack Obama slayed all the dragons; he killed bin Laden; he killed Al-Qaeda; he got rid of all that, it wasn\u2019t possible, but yet it\u2019s happening. So you got local bodyguards. We know that the local bodyguards told the mob where the ambassador was and that\u2019s how the ambassador was found. We don\u2019t know if the ambassador died from being beaten. We don\u2019t know if he died from smoke inhalation. We don\u2019t know if he died in the fire, but we know he died a brutal death and was raped. <\/p>\n And now we know last night from Reuters and CBS… Here, grab the sound bite. Grab sound bite two. Sharyl Attkisson last night on the CBS Evening News. This is a portion of her report on this. We\u2019ve got two sound bites. This is the first of them.<\/p>\n ATTKISSON: At 4:05 p.m. Eastern time on September 11th, an alert from the State Department Operations Center was issued to a number of government and intelligence agencies. Included were the White House Situation Room, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the FBI. “US diplomatic mission in Benghazi under attack. Approximately 20 armed people fired shots. Explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four chief-of-mission personnel are in the compound safe haven.” At 4:54, less than an hour later, another alert. “The firing in Benghazi has stopped, a response team is on site attempting to locate chief-of-mission personnel.”<\/p>\n RUSH: Then the White House was told at 6:07 p.m. the night of September 11th that it was a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n ATTKISSON: Then at 6:07, State sent out another alert saying the embassy in Tripoli reported the Islamic military group Ansar al-Sharia claims responsibility for Benghazi attack on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli. The e-mails are just a few in what is likely a large number traded throughout the night and are likely to become part of the ongoing political debate over whether the administration attempted to mislead in saying the assault was an outgrowth of a protest rather than a planned attack by terrorists.<\/p>\n RUSH: And that\u2019s where we are. They knew. They couldn\u2019t help knowing! There\u2019s no doubt they knew. They were told what it was. So there are two things. A, there was no assistance offered; B, lies were constructed purposefully and then told for at least eight days, including six times in one speech at the UN. And today the vast majority of the media is aiding in the cover-up here. As I said in the first hour: It\u2019s akin to Woodward and Bernstein helping Nixon cover up Watergate.<\/a><\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: You remember also when the president pretended to be offended about a statement of fact during his and Candy Crowley\u2019s second debate with Mitt Romney? The president said, “And the suggestion that anybody on my team — whether the secretary of state, our UN ambassador or anybody on my team — would play politics or mislead when we\u2019ve lost four of our own, Governor, is offensive.”<\/p>\n In debate number two Obama said, “Anybody accusing us of lying, anybody saying that we would play politics or mislead…” Well, that\u2019s exactly what happened. It\u2019s worse than misleading. They lied! Folks, I don\u2019t know how else to say it. They knew exactly what happened and who was responsible for it, and they knew what was happening. They knew it was not a video. They knew it was not a protest that had gotten out of hand, some effervescent thing that had bubbled over.<\/p>\n It was a preplanned terrorist attack.<\/p>\n There was real-time video of it.<\/p>\n I\u2019m getting blue in the face repeating the details.<\/p>\n And in the second debate, Obama wants to lay claim to fact he had called it a terrorist attack when he hadn\u2019t? Romney called him on it and Candy Crowley came to Obama\u2019s rescue.<\/a> She helped Obama carry off another lie in the second debate. Then Obama says (impression), “How dare you! How could anybody say I would lie, mislead! Uhhhh, that\u2019s offensive, Governor.” That\u2019s exactly what happened! (impression) “Well, you know, I must tell you: The loss of American life is not optimal. It\u2019s just isn\u2019t optimal.”<\/a> Grab sound bite number four. Let\u2019s go the debate on Monday night at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.<\/p>\n Here is Barack Obama.<\/p>\n Keep in mind what you know now.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the president…<\/p>\n OBAMA: When we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n RUSH: Really?<\/p>\n “When we got that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, we did everything we could to secure those Americans still in harm\u2019s way.” That doesn\u2019t seem to be the case, Mr. President. When you got the phone call, you were told what was going on! (sigh) This is flat-out not true. Move forward to sound bite seven. John Bolton was on with Greta Van Susteren last night. She\u2019s giving him the details of what is known here. It\u2019s what I\u2019ve been blue in the face telling you. She says, “They knew it that night, Mr. Bolton. I don\u2019t get it. 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