report with bret baier last night. fox news has previously reported that president obama and key national security aides made a secret finding as early as september 12th that the men gaz ghazi murders were an act of terrorism. fox news has since learned that five days later there was still an internal dispute raking inside the administration raging inside the administration over how to characterize the attacks publicly because senior intelligence officials reached out on monday, september 17th, to several security contractors to have them review the mortar damage to the u.s. annex in benghazi as captured in a series of images taken by cbs news. based on the angles of impact and fragmentation patterns, these analysts concluded there were at least two mortar teams to score district hits, all obvious evidence of a terrorist attack. the intelligence officials then
coordinated plan, remeditated attack. the next day, fox news learned officials contacted several independent security contractors to review post attack footage of the annex where two ex navy seals were killed. the contractors found that the impact angles and fragmentation patterns of the mortar damage revealed at least two mortar teams using gps devices to score direct hits on their first shots. the intelligence officials who already believed the attacks to be coordinated and professional used these outside assessments internally to rebut the rice narrative and the very next day, the nation s top counterterrorism official ended the dispute for good. certainly on that particular question i would say yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy. the state department disclosed that its own internal panel reviewing the genie episode, the accountability review board or arb, met for the first time today, chairing the board is thomas pickerring and among its
we have previously reported that senior members of the president s national security team made a secret finding on september the 12th that benghazi was a terrorist attack. and, yet, it was three days later that u.n. ambassador susan rice, you will recall, went on all the sunday shows to insist that the killings were the result of a spontaneous mob. well, the next day fox news has learned high level intelligence officials has reached out to several independent security contractors and had them review these images of the mortar damage at that annex. the contractor sited the angles and fragmentation patterns to detect two more mortar teams using g.p.s. devices to score hits. armed with these outside assessments, the intel officials internally rebutted susan rice s claims and the very next day matt olson, head of the national counter terrorism center ended this internal debate when he testified publicly to the united states senate that benghazi was indeed a terrorist attack follow me on tw