Benghazi Hearing Take Away: YouTube Video Had Nothing To Do With It

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Three whistleblowers are testifying to the House Committee on Government Oversight today about last September's attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, during which the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans were killed. One of the witnesses is Gregory Hicks, who was the number two American in Libya last September and among the last to talk to Stevens. He's testified that the ambassador made no mention of a demonstration at the mission in Benghazi, only an attack, and that "[t]he YouTube video was a non-event in Libya," despite the Obama Administration's attempts to pin the violence in Libya to protests over a trailer for an anti-Muslim film that had been on YouTube for months.

It was all about the video Obama apologists cried in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack (and the run-up to November's presidential election). That position does not appear to be connected to reality at all.

Here's a brief exchange over the YouTube video and how "stunned" and "embarrassed" Gregory Hicks was by Susan Rice attempting to link the violence in Benghazi to the video:

You can watch the ongoing hearing here (to resume in a few minutes) and read about questions that ought to be answered there here.

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