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http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/upiUPI-20121025-091455-9448
Meanwhile, a firestorm is still brewing over the release of diplomatic emails sent from the consulate as it was under attack. U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other diplomatic staffers were killed. The debate over who knew what when about the Sept. 11 assault took another twist, when one of the more explosive emails may have been found to be inaccurate, CNN reported.
The emails, released late Tuesday, invigorated an already heated debate about when the Obama administration learned that the attack was the work of terrorists, not a protest over a U.S.-made anti-Muslim video that turned deadly.
An email with the subject line, "Update 2: Ansar al Sharia Claims Responsibility For Benghazi Attack," said in the body that "Embassy Tripoli reports the group has claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli."
However, an examination of Ansar al-Sharia of Benghazi's known Facebook and Twitter accounts doesn't indicate any such claim of responsibility, Aaron Zelin, a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who tracks jihadist websites, told CNN.
Zelin said he was unaware that any such claim was posted on the official Facebook page or Twitter feed of Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi.
Zelin said a posting referred to a news conference the al-Qaida-affiliated group had in Benghazi in which it denied any role in the assault. Among other things, the posting said, "Ansar al-Sharia brigade did not officially participate as a military body, nor received any orders directed from the brigade."
Before the possible contradiction in the spot report email and what was posted online by the organization, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz,, and two other Republican senators wrote Wednesday to Obama, saying: "These emails make clear that your administration knew within two hours of the attack that it was a terrorist act and that Ansar al-Sharia ... had claimed responsibility for it."
But wait...theres more
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/10/benghazi-libya-state-emails
There's only one problem—well, actually, there are many, but one big one: The email appears to have been incorrect. Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi, the group suspected of attacking the consulate, never claimed responsibility for the assault. In fact, according to Aaron Zelin, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who monitors jihadist activity online, Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi didn't post about the attack on its Facebook or Twitter page until September 12, the day after the attack. They expressed their approval of the incident, but they didn't take credit; they did imply members of the group might have been involved, according to Zelin, stating, "Katibat Ansar al-Sharia [in Benghazi] as a military did not participate formally/officially and not by direct orders." The statement also justifies the attack by implicitly alluding to the anti-Islam video linked to unrest in other parts of the Middle East, saying, "We commend the Libyan Muslim people in Benghazi [that were] against the attack on the [Muslim] Prophet [Muhammad]."
"It is possible staffers were mistaken in the heat of the moment," wrote Zelin in an email to Mother Jones. "Not only was there no statement from ASB until the following morning, but it did not claim responsibility." (Zelin provided Mother Jones with screenshots of AAS's Twitter feed and Facebook page, which he also provided to CNN. It's possible the posts could have been deleted, but there's no way to prove that.)
Even if the State Department email had been accurate, conservatives pounced on it eagerly without underlying corroboration, thereby providing a pretty good example of how complicated intelligence analysis can be and why it's a bad idea to simply jump on a piece of information that fits your preconceived biases. The email was just one piece of information gathered in the aftermath of the attack. While the White House's initial explanation that the attack had begun as a protest turned out to be wrong, the email itself doesn't bear on two of the major remaining questions: what role the video played and whether the attack was planned or spontaneous.
You'd think that this would be obvious, but in the future it's a good idea to remember that just because someone posts something on Facebook, that doesn't necessarily mean it's true. Even better: Just because someone said someone posted something on Facebook doesn't mean it's true. Even if you really, really want it to be.
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Less than a day after conservatives definitively called a set of emails from the State Department hard evidence that the Obama administration misled the public over the Sept. attack against a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, the accuracy of the emails’ content is coming under scrutiny.
While many on the right have labeled the email, which says that the Ansar al-Sharia militia had claimed credit for the assault in Benghazi on Facebook and Twitter, as a
“smoking gun,” the truth may be more complex than that. Aaron Zelin, Richard Borow fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, extensively tracks jihadist groups’ presence on the Internet. In an interview with CNN, Zelin indicated that he’s seen no evidence that backs up the email’s claim that Ansar al-Sharia had taken responsibility for the attack:
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/25/1086871/doubts-smoking-gun-benghazi-emails/
and just to add to the fray....
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/24/doubts-surface-over-e-mail-on-claim-of-responsibility-for-benghazi-attack/?iref=allsearch
Doubts surface over e-mail on claim of responsibility for Benghazi attack
Fox news say.....ooooooh nothing....
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