Executive Summary Brief

U.S. Embassy Massacre in Benghazi, Libya

On September 11, 2012, the eleventh anniversary of the 9-11-01 terror attacks on the U.S., the U.S.

Embassy in Benghazi, Libya was attacked resulting in the death of four U.S. Citizens, including the

capture, brutal rape and murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

This Executive Brief is prepared on the basis of official cable communications between the Benghazi

Consulate and numerous members of the Obama Administration including Secretary of State Clinton and

numerous undersecretaries, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice and the White House.

These cable communications were sent during the time frame – September 2011 through the date of the

attacks in September 2012.

The cables evidence a yearlong concerted effort by U.S. officials in Benghazi to report increasing terror

threats and gain additional security for the Benghazi Embassy and our foreign diplomats.

Among other significant items, the documents at the foundation of this summary demonstrate the

following in no uncertain terms.

In August of 2011 - The Obama Administration acted without congressional oversight or

authority to destabilize the Middle East and topple foreign governments, in this report, Libya,

interrupting all economic, agricultural and energy supply lines in the entire region and causing

widespread civil unrest.

The unprovoked deposing of the Gadhafi government in Libya resulted in the closing of the U.S.

Embassy in Tripoli and the establishment of a temporary consulate in Benghazi, which did not at

any time, meet standard security protocol.

Following the fall of the Gadhafi government, the Obama Administration allowed known foreign

terrorists from Somalia, Pakistan, Iraq and other neighboring states to enter Libya, recruit, train

and deploy Al Qaeda terrorists within local militia groups, armed with both small and large

shoulder-fired weapons, some supplied by the Obama Administration.

That the Obama administration placed the Muslim Brotherhood in control of Libya, and known

terror Libyan group Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in control of the Libyan Military and militias

operating in Tripoli, which had been shut down under Gadhafi as a known affiliate of Al Qaeda.

That beginning in September of 2011, approximately one year before the September 2012

terrorist attacks on U.S. Embassies, officials in Benghazi started alerting Obama Administration

officials that there was a rising organized terror threat targeting U.S. interests that required

additional security at the Benghazi installation.

By March of 2012, Benghazi was requesting at least 5 more security agents. That despite

numerous reports of increasing terror threats and pleas for additional security at the Benghazi

compound, the Obama Administration not only refused any additional security, they reduced

security at the Benghazi installation. Warnings of organized terror threats had become critical,

supported by U.S. Intelligence by June and July 2012.

By June and July of 2012, pleas for additional security under a deteriorating situation on the

ground in Libya had become shrill. Yet, the Benghazi compound was left to rely only upon local

Libyan militia groups for compound security. The same militia groups that included members of

known terror organizations, specifically including Islamic Maghreb and Al Qaeda operatives, as

reported to the Obama Administration by consulate officials on numerous occasions.

By August 2012, the situation had become critical, causing Ambassador Chris Stevens to issue

yet another plea for immediate increased security to protect American diplomats in Benghazi,

which was once again ignored by the Obama White House and State Department. Benghazi

officials started copying numerous Obama agencies in on the cables, in search of someone who

would listen.

On September 4, 2012, seven days before the deadly attacks on the Benghazi consulate,

Ambassador Stevens issued a “MAXIMUM ALERT” to ALL Obama Administration agencies

concerning the imminent threat of terror attacks coming from inside the new Libyan government,

military, police and the same militia groups they were forced to rely upon for consulate security.

The Obama Administration had been warned for twelve months in advance that the situation in

Libya was deteriorating to the degree that those officials in Benghazi no longer felt safe and

desperately needed additional security. Pleas that Obama officials denied repeatedly all the way

up to days before the attacks.

The cables demonstrate that the Obama Administration knew that there was an increasing threat,

that it was an organized terrorists threat, that it was planned in advance, that it was well funded

and armed in part by the U.S. State Department, that the consulate was a “sitting duck” with

inadequate security falling well below standard security protocol and that the events of September

2012 had absolutely nothing to do with an obscure YouTube video.

That the Obama Administration failed to react to repeated warnings all the way up to the day of

the attacks, and that even as those cables were pouring into administration officials begging for

help, administration officials were knowingly creating a cover story concerning an obscure

YouTube video in an effort to escape responsibility for the deaths of American officials.

On the day of the 2012 Embassy attacks, additional warnings were pouring in from installations

in Tripoli and other places, while Ambassador Stevens was being beaten, raped, murdered and

dragged through the streets of Libya.

The cables prove that the Obama Administration is directly and criminally responsible for the

events that unfolded on the eleventh anniversary of 9-11-01 – and that they took specific actions

to leave the Benghazi consulate vulnerable, and then created a cover story in an effort to escape

administrative responsibility.

The Administration allowed two weeks to pass following the attacks, along with the degrading of

physical evidence before putting the F.B.I. on the ground in Benghazi to investigate, during

which time administration officials continued to tell the American people a known lie, that the

attacks were “not terror related” – “were not planned” – “were not organized” and “were the

result of an obscure YouTube video” when in fact, it was a highly predictable outcome to official

administration policies and decisions.

63 DS agents were deployed to cover the Pan American games during the same time frame that

Benghazi officials were requesting 5 more agents and denied more than 2 DS agents to protect a

13 acre compound in the middle of Obama’s Middle East meltdown.

That despite administration claims of limited State Department funding, the State Department

was operating with the largest budget in history and resources were simply being used for

political purposes rather than the safety and security of our foreign diplomats.

On September 4, 2012, a final plea for immediate additional security at Benghazi was sent to

State Secretary Clinton, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, Homeland

Security, the F.B.I, the C.I.A., Arab Israel Collective, the Department of Commerce, Africom and

the African Union Collective. Benghazi officials had become desperate to get help from

somewhere. Stevens was killed seven days later.

Ambassador Stevens, along with three fellow U.S. officials in Benghazi died a brutal death as a

direct result of Obama administration policies and decisions and that the administration continues

a cover up effort even today.

The cables used to evidence these facts include more than a hundred pages of cable communications

between Benghazi and Obama Administration officials. These cables demonstrate that there was no

confusion over what was happening in Libya leading up to and including the attacks of September 2012,

and no “fog of war” concerning the nature of the attacks that Benghazi officials had tried for months to

warn the Obama administration about.

All Obama officials knew full well that the events of September 2012 were organized and planned,

terrorist assaults on U.S. Embassies in Benghazi and beyond, having nothing whatsoever to do with an

obscure YouTube video. Still, the bold faced lies continue from Obama administration officials.

The Washington Times is reporting that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the 55-year-old filmmaker

responsible for the anti-Muslim video that President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,

and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice initially and wrongly blamed for inciting the deadly terrorist attack on

the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, is still being held at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention

Center (MDC) without bond.

His first court appearance is scheduled for three days after the 2012 election. Despite recent

acknowledgements by the Obama administration, that the YouTube film had nothing to do with

September 2012 events, the filmmaker remains silenced without bond by Obama administration officials,

until after the November 6th election.

Overview and Conclusions

In final analysis of the facts presented in the cables between Benghazi and Obama administration

officials, one can safely conclude that the events of September 11, 2012 were entirely predictable and

avoidable.

The Obama administration acted beyond its authority, without congressional advice or consent and in

violation of the War Powers Act, in unilaterally attacking the foreign sovereign nation of Libya and

deposing the Libyan government without any provocation.

In doing so, they destabilized an entire region of the world known as a hotbed of terrorists organizations

and anti-Western sentiment, elevating known terror organization the Muslim Brotherhood into control of

numerous Middle Eastern states, interrupting economic, energy and agricultural supply lines igniting

unrest across the region.

The Obama administration left our foreign embassies unguarded as “sitting ducks” as repeated reports of

increasing violence and threat poured in over and over again, from across the Middle East and in

particular, Benghazi.

In the end, the Obama administration had become the world’s greatest supporter of Islamic Terror

operations, toppling sovereign governments in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Pakistan. The region

is HOT with numerous terror organizations and Al Qaeda in particular has reconstituted full operations in

all of these states and beyond.

Officials in Benghazi had gone out of their way for twelve months, especially during the weeks leading

up to the attacks, to advise Obama officials of increased destabilization in the region, resulting in

increasing organized terror threats to U.S. interests in Libya and beyond.

Obama officials had advance knowledge that terror attacks were imminent and did nothing to protect

American diplomats and employees. Obama administration officials failed to properly respond to those

reports of increased threat by increasing location security or removing U.S. officials from danger.

The death and destruction was entirely avoidable. There was no failure of intelligence or on the ground

reporting. There was no “fog of war” in trying to understand the events of September 2012, after months

of warnings from Benghazi officials.

Further, the administration was fully aware of the true nature of these attacks and chose to mislead the

American people by advancing a cover story regarding an obscure YouTube film, while failing to put

F.B.I. investigators on the ground for two weeks following the attacks.

The Obama administration has arrested and detained the YouTube filmmaker without just cause and

continues to silence the filmmaker until after the 2012 election. Administration officials remain on-record

repeating false statements regarding these events as of today.

The cables at the center of this brief provide evidence of massive incompetence at a minimum. They may

in fact evidence criminal wrong-doing that could rise to the level of treason against American interests

here and abroad.

This summary brief was prepared for the sole purpose of making public, the truth about Obama Foreign

Policy and decision making and the deadly consequences that followed in Benghazi.

Readers of this summary are encouraged to read the subject cables and draw their own conclusions.

This is not how America should do business around the world. It is certainly no way to protect the men

and women of our diplomatic corps, who risk their lives to advance freedom and liberty abroad and

provide for a peaceful and stable world.