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Friday, January 4, 2013

White House September 11, 2012 Photo Conspiracy Debunked [Update]

UPDATE: It turns out it was last night's Special Report with Bret Baier that got this story going (clip here.)  Baier stated: "We are seeing today the first released photo of President Obama being briefed on the night of September 11th, 2012... Fox and other new organizations have asked for photos from that night, however, those requests had previously been denied. This is the first photo from that night."

    The Blaze and Fox News are reporting that the White House finally released a photo taken in the White House on September 11, 2012, during the Benghazi attacks:



However, the photo in question was actually uploaded to the White House Flickr account on October 12:

    The photo was even used by the site BagNews.com on October 15th.  Although Flickr and Google cache appear to have some conflict, I managed to grab a screen shot of the December 12, 2012 Google-cache version of the Flickr page:



    Whatever intrigue and conspiracies remain to be uncovered about Benghazi, this photo isn't one of them.

9 comments:

  1. this president always accomplishes in creating more questions than answers

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  2. I thought it took place in the middle of the night our time? Why can you see vehicles outside the window? Is this just a "standard" photo from different day/time?

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    1. no it was afternoon time here

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    2. he went to vagas that night

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  3. The photo in question actually was taken on 9/11 at 7:26PM if we are to belief the EXIF which is almost exactly the time the attack occurred. However from what I recalled, Obama found out about it later on in the evening and went to bed instead.

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    1. 7:26 PM is 1:26 AM on the 12th in Benghzi. That would be almost 4 hours after the attack started according to Pentagon timeline.

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  4. Karadion, 7:26 PM means it was 1:26 AM the following day (12th) in Benghazi. The attack started around 9:40pm on Sept 11th according to Pentagon timeline. This means almost 4 hours into the attack and he was finally being informed.

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  5. So, these are the brave men that denied help to the Americans under attack.

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  6. The WH uploaded it to a file hosting domain instead of sending it out to the media?

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