The State Department and White House both claim they had “no actionable intelligence” prior to the Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador Stevens and the numerous attacks on US embassies around the Middle East.

They are Flat Out Lying

We knew early on they were not being truthful, it was quite simply obvious.  Now, as the days continue to pass, more and more information is coming out to prove with specificity the security aparatus just failed miserably.   What is sickening to witness is how the Legacy Media (sans Fox and the Web)  are protecting President Obama and avoiding the TRUTH.

The Libyan President has admitted to warning our US officials about the potential for violent attacks on our interests in his country around the date Sept. 11th, yet the administration and the State Department did nothing.   Nothing.

Now, as predicted, information is coming out about the specific al-Qaeda connections with AQIM affiliated factions involved.

WASHINGTON – Intelligence sources tell Fox News they are convinced the deadly attack on  the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was directly tied to Al Qaeda — with a  former Guantanamo detainee involved.

That revelation comes on the same day a top Obama administration official  called last week’s deadly assault a “terrorist attack” — the first time the  attack has been described that way by the administration after claims it had  been a “spontaneous” act.”Yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy,”  Matt Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said during a  Senate hearing Wednesday.  […]

Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the  attack, Fox News’ intelligence sources said. Qumu, a Libyan, was released from  the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 and transferred into Libyan  custody on the condition he be kept in jail. His Guantanamo files also show he  has ties to the financiers behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Olson, repeating Wednesday that the FBI is handling the Benghazi  investigation, also acknowledged the attack could lead back to Al Qaeda and its  affiliates.

“We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may  have had connections to Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda’s affiliates, in particular Al  Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,” he said at the Senate Homeland Security Committee  hearing.  (read more)

Fox News has obtained a three-page intelligence report showing that two days before the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, a statement incited “sons of Egypt” to pressure America to release the so-called blind sheikh “even if it requires burning the embassy down with everyone in it.”

“The Blind Shiek” Omar Abdel-Rahman (left) and OBL’s replacement, the new AQAP leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri (right)

The web statement, apparently posted on Sept. 9, was in reference to the embassy in Egypt. It preceded a throng of demonstrators breaching the U.S. Embassy wall in Cairo, supposedly in protest over an anti-Islam film. Obama administration officials claim that attackers in Libya then took their cue from Cairo and seized the opportunity to attack the consulate in Benghazi.

Though the administration’s version of events is still evolving, the three-page Department of Homeland Security intelligence report further highlights potential threats that were being picked up before last week’s attack.

The DHS report, released on Sept. 11, said an “unidentified user” on an Arabic-language forum posted the statement “inciting Egyptians to target the U.S. Embassy, indicating the U.S. Embassy shouldn’t remain in Egypt” until Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as the blind sheikh, is released. Abdel-Rahman, who played a role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other attacks, is serving a life sentence in U.S. prison.