Friday, October 12, 2012

Debate continues over YouTube and Libya attack


What the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, looked like after a military-style raid on September 11, 2012.


(Credit: CBS News )

If you were paying attention last month, you might remember headlines reporting an anti-Islam YouTube video "sparks violence in Libya," is "inciting violence," and caused "U.S. embassy workers' deaths."


There's only one problem: those reports were untrue.


A flurry of disclosures in Washington, D.C. this week revealed that the Obama administration's decision to blame the YouTube video for a military-style attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi was entirely wrong. And those revelations have reignited a long-running partisan debate over national security and security funding.


Republicans suggested that the White House's efforts targeting the crude, now-deleted video clip -- including ... [Read more]


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