[1]The Obama administration tends to shoot first and some time later attempt find answers. The administration has argued, to no end, that the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya were spontaneous, and not preplanned. All this if face of evidence the attackers fielded heavy weapons, such as mortars. Jay Carney plays the fool, Transcript, via RCP [2]:
REPORTER: Our people on the ground have seen the fragments – the remains of the mortars – the heavy weapons that were used.
CARNEY: We’ve been clear that there were armed assailants who used heavy weapons, we obviously haven’t disputed that.
REPORTER: So this was just a random crowd carrying heavy weapons, who, incited by this film, decided to go blow up…
CARNEY: There has certainly been precedent in the past where bad actors, extremists who are heavily armed, in different countries, in different regions of the world have taken advantage of and exploited situations that have developed in order to either attack westerners or western assets or Americans and American assets.
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CARNEY: All I can tell you is that based on the information we had at the time – we have now – we do not yet have indication that it was pre-planned or pre-meditated. There’s an active investigation. If that investigation produces facts that lead to a different conclusion, we will make clear that that is where the investigation has led. It’s not – our interest is in finding out the facts of what happened, not taking what we’ve read in the newspaper and making bold assertions that we know what happened. We’d rather investigate.
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Now I am just a retired airman, but even flyboys know something about heavy weapons. For one they are heavy. You just don’t carry around mortars, what a three man crew served weapon, for the halibut of it. Yet Carney is in essence arguing that an angry mob just happened to arose but one armed with heavy weapons Further the some spontaneous just happened to know the location of the safe house and had it pre-targetted.