justice the terrorists who murdered four americans. so there you go. sudden about face from the administration labeling it a terrorist organization. and, you know, white house officials don t come out, well, maybe other than joe biden and say what is on his mind. very often there is a directorrive from the white house this is now the mode disoperandi going forward. label it x, y, and z. officials with different responses. hillary clinton said this. susan rice is the first one to your point sent out there. many believe she is our next secretary of state. rpg s at a spontaneous protest? i mean, i m talking about people that don t cover the middle east. people said this doesn t make sense. 9/11, multiple countries, rpg s. this doesn t sound like spontaneous protest u.s. ambassador killed for the first time since 1979. average people saying this is
with you. what is going on here? sounds to me their position is evolving as they appear to learn more. i m kind of curious they say initially there was no evidence it was premeditated or preplanned. it occurred on september 11th could make you think, hey it could be and al qaeda connection they re now investigating. i don t know at this point there is anything more here than language. when they say it is obviously a terrorist attack that is advance for them because the obama administration has been very reluctant to call anything terrorist. as you know, they have been using this manmade disaster euphemism that i find so crazy. martha: on the right-hand side of the screen we were showing the video believed to be from the night outside of that compound in benghazi. you can see rpg s in this video. just a few people are out there in the street. it is believed they may be the actual perpetrators and people who went in there and
the ground. we have more information. they re doing an investigation. and secretary clinton went to brief congressional members yesterday and she said very clearly that it is that it was a terrorist attack. but we still also have to be patient for the investigation to happen. the bigger picture is that democracies produce fewer terrorists than dictatorships. this process of creating democracy in the middle east is going to be messy. it s unfortunate we have a loss of life brian: it s also important to know how it took place so it doesn t happen again. eyewitnesses say there was no demonstration that morphed into an attack. they showed up with rpg s and there were two teams. right. there were two teams of attackers that suggest there was a team of ten, which attacked the embassy and a team of ten waiting for the ambassador to leave.
libya and it was more than the video. you do not have protesters walking up at a spontaneous video demonstration with rpg s and machine guns. it was always kind of preposterous to begin with. shepard: i looked at the video from the fox report to see who we were quoting and how we were presenting this at time. what our folks around here did was, they saw what you just said, folks with rpg s and machine guns who clearly came together. the ambassador was killed, after all. that night, i think, we were saying it appears to be a terrorist attack and days later it did not make sense she would be out there in that way. chris: it makes sense in a couple of ways. it is cynical, but it is political. that is, that obama has talked about how successful he has been in the war on terror. if al qaeda is not dead along with bin laden but, in fact, is alive and still doing its worst
killed, shaun smith, indicated in an online post that he put out just hours before he was killed, he said we are fearful that there will be an attack. i hope we don t die tonight. that was his specific words, i hope we don t die tonight. and he said that one of the guards had taken photos of the embassy and had taken photos of the safe house, we know this was not just some spontaneous efforts, you don t have rpg s, rocket propelled grenade launchers, and theyeneded up capturing a number of secret documents out of the embassy that included the names of contacts in libya, those people are now vulnerable. going forward, what do we learn? you re on the oversight committee that looks at these issues of intelligence. what do you and other members of the committee say to the intelligence agencies and the military so that this doesn t happen again? well, again, what prevents this is strength, and the projection of strength and i think we can wind back to when