60 Minutes live tweeted their piece on Benghazi and it will give you a good idea of what’s in the report by Lara Logan. The full video is below the tweets:
“It was the ambassador, dead. Yeah, shocking.” – Morgan Jones recalls seeing Chris Stevens’ body in a hospital controlled by terrorists
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
Security officer Morgan Jones says hrs before the attack, Amb Stevens told him he was worried about security at the Benghazi compound
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
Contrary to early WH statements, Benghazi was a planned, sophisticated attack by Al Qaeda against the barely protected American compound
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
A security official says the attack in #Benghazi was no surprise b/c al Qaeda had posted their plots against U.K. and U.S. online
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
“You are going to get attacked in #Benghazi,” a security official says he told Amb Stevens 3 months b/f the assault on the U.S. mission
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
Prior to the attack, Amb Stevens approved a cable to DC that said: “The al Qaeda flag has been spotted…flying over govt bldgs”
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
When the attack began, Amb Stevens called his deputy Greg Hicks, who said Stevens “sounded frightened.”
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
“We’re getting attacked…they’re all over the compound.” Jones recalls an officer in the #Benghazi compound telling him over the phone.
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
“‘We're here to kill Americans, not Libyans,'” #Benghazi attackers told U.S. Mission guards, Jones recalls
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
A CIA quick reaction force ignored orders to wait & went into the compound, where they repelled 60 terrorists & saved 5 Americans
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
“They knew what they were doing. That was a well-executed attack” – Andy Wood on the #Benghazi attackers
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
“It’s a terrible, terrible experience” –Hicks recalls effectively learning that U.S. military assets weren’t on the way to #Benghazi
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
In the burned-out #Benghazi compound we found a scrap of paper w/ Amb Stevens’ schedule for 9/12/12, a day he didn’t live to see
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013
Watch the full report below:
UPDATE: Also this should be emphasized:
A security officer based in Benghazi says the State Dept wouldn’t allow guards at the U.S. Mission to carry guns: http://t.co/r2dlNxDxT1
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 27, 2013