badgenome on 15 May 2013
| Ckmlb1 said: The information that they just released showed that the CIA was the one saying that they shouldn't rush to declare this an Al Qaeda attack and that's why it was removed until further investigation. |
No. In fact, Petraeus wanted to include more information, but Morrell didn't because he felt it would be unfair to the State Department. The reservations about al-Qaeda were the State Department's, not the CIA's:
The version the administration used in the days after the attacks, primarily by Susan E. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, did not include suspicions about the involvement of a Libyan militant group with ties to Al Qaeda. State Department officials objected to the inclusion of that information.
