2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Dark Sage]

"The number of potentially inflammatory things that are said or broadcast every week (is so large) ... that warning about all of them would be useless," said Paul Pillar, former top U.S. intelligence analyst for the Middle East and South Asia. It was "impossible to predict" the kind of violent reaction that occurred in Libya, Egypt and elsewhere.

One U.S. official said, "You can't freak out on everything that's broadcast."

That official and others said the airwaves and Internet were filled with hateful material and U.S. authorities could be "crying wolf" if they issued a warning every time an anti-Islamic broadside was aired or posted online.

That's why I say it isn't as damning as you say.

[Roy Karrde]

That's why I say it isn't as damning as you say.

The Independent states they were warned specifically of embassy attacks, not "Why didn't you raise the red flags when the broadcasts began" so I do not see what that article has to do with the Independent article.

Furthermore the Independent article is backed up now by Israeli papers saying that Egypt warned them as early as September 4th of problems ahead for their embassies.

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=284684