corn an nbc analymsnbc analyst the author of 47 percent. has susan rice, the ambassador to the united nations, when she went on meet the press five days after the assault on the consulate, was she speaking on the level with the best intel she had? amazingly enough, because she has been attacked so stridently for her comments, she was stating almost word for word the talking points the cia had prepared the previous day, september 15. i know that because i was given by a senior intelligence official a copy of those talking points, and they included the phrase that she got hammered for about the spontaneous inspiration for the benghazi events being what had happened to cairo. that view was revised a little bit since then, but what s amazing, a month after these events is that our intelligence
specifically what they would do or why they would go. that, unfortunately, is still a missing piece of the puzzle, but that s what leads them to say there was some link between what happened in cairo and these people gathering at the compound and then assaulting it. well, was the difference then between the initial intel and the later intel that the initial intel said it was spontaneous or suggested that the protest and the assault on our diplomats and the killing actually of chris stevens was spontaneous and their later assessment that it was opportunistic, they wanted to do, it they saw their chance with what was going on in cairo, the anger of the people over there about the video? i think the honest answer is they still aren t exactly sure how this came together. the official used with me the phrase a flash mob with weapons, but it s clear that the group included serious hard core terrorists that were probably member of the al qaeda in
analysts still aren t sure exactly what led to that attack on the compound in benghazi, and if mitt romney tries to claim otherwise, he s going against our most senior intelligence people. well, governor romney seems to be making the point that it had nothing to do with the video, the anti-islamic video that came out of los angeles. did it have something to do with that according to best intel zm. chris, let me tell you what i heard from the intelligence officials and then you and your viewers can decide. their intelligence is that some of the people who attacked the compound on the night of september 11, had been watching the events in cairo live. they had been watching al jazeera or whatever network it was showing the protests at the american embassy in cairo about the video. they also know that in addition to watching this, they talked among themselves about what was happening in cairo, and then they went to the consulate compound. they don t have intelligence that has them plan
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right. we have reached out to fox news has reached out of to the fbi for a statement. we have not heard back yet from the fbi on that let me play devil s advocate here wouldn t it be more bense twitts out there because we could monitor them? we could see who is following the account of hamas trace it back. find the linkages that way. is this not another opportunity for us to maybe educate ourselves about maybe homegrown terrorists, terrorist cells living within the united states and other places? sure, that is a way to following what they are doing. reach a point still keep up with these organizations which i think we have the intelligence capability to do so, or to allow them to continue to recruit other members, recruit violence throughout the world so it s a tradeoff. you have to make up your mind whether or not you want the information or you want really not to allow them to promote terrorism throughout the united states? i think we can keep up with these groups.