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Because extremist groups walk around with 82mm mortars and RPG-7s in their back pockets all the time.

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But there was also intel pointed to organized terrorist.

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watergate level no its not.... its much worse imo

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Based upon what they said in the hearings yesterday, the attack was not that organized

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These folks let people die....

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The senior intelligence official said the analysts’ judgment was based in part on monitoring of some of the Benghazi attackers, which showed they had been watching the Cairo protests live on television and talking about them before they assaulted the consulate.

“We believe the timing of the attack was influenced by events in Cairo,” the senior official said, reaffirming the Cairo-Benghazi link. He said that judgment is repeated in a new report prepared this week for the House intelligence committee.

Here’s how the senior official described the jumble of events in Benghazi that day: “The attackers were disorganized; some seemed more interested in looting. Some who claimed to have participated joined the attack as it began or after it was under way. There is no evidence of rehearsals, they never got into the safe room . . . never took any hostages, didn’t bring explosives to blow the safe room door, and didn’t use a car bomb to blow the gates.”

he Benghazi flap is the sort of situation that intelligence officers dread: when politicians are demanding hard “yes” or “no” answers but evidence is fragmentary and conflicting. The political debate has focused on whether the attack was spontaneous or planned, but the official said there’s evidence of both, and that different attackers may have had different motives. There’s no dispute, however, that it was “an act of terror,” as Obama described it the next day.

“It was a flash mob with weapons,” is how the senior official described the attackers. The mob included members of the Ansar al-Sharia militia, about four members of al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, and members of the Egypt-based Muhammad Jamal network, along with other unarmed looters.

The official said the only major change he would make now in the CIA’s Sept. 15 talking points would be to drop the word “spontaneous” and substitute “opportunistic.” He explained that there apparently was “some pre-coordination but minimal planning.”

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that Petraeus did not realize the significance of it at the time

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yeah bro. you ever been to the middle east?

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So yeah, I have been to Southwest Asia and the Middle East maybe once or twice in my thirty years (and counting).

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People usually die in terrorist attacks. They happen in every administration. You guys are so desperate.

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He was amazed a Desert Storm guy was still roaming the hallways

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Nice.

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Actually fossil comment, and how are you not yet oil being extracted from a well!

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The fact that I know the difference between and 82mm and an 81mm mortar should have clued you in. And maybe the location where I am posting from. So yeah, I have been to Southwest Asia and the Middle East maybe once or twice in my thirty years (and counting).

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I am 49 now. Holding up well as a fossil. Glad you taught that young whipper snapper to stay out of your yard!

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