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FBI Says a Team Has Come and Gone to Benghazi in the Last 24 Hours

Oct. 4, 2012 2:00pm Madeleine Morgenstern

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — The FBI says a team of agents arrived in Benghazi on Wednesday to investigate last month’s deadly attack on the U.S. consulate and has already left the city.

FBI spokeswoman Kathy Wright says the FBI agents were there just one day. She would not say where the team is headed.

Law enforcement officials had said that the FBI had been staying away from the Libyan city for security reasons, prompting a weeks-long delay in the investigation.

A Libyan official told AFP a team of about 20 Americans in civilian clothing arrived early Thursday morning and spent about three hours collecting evidence.

The FBI was investigating a terror attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, a State Department computer expert and two former U.S. Navy Seals at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11.

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TRILO
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 6:21pm
They were there for three hours collecting evidence! What evidence? The site has been picked through for over three weeks. Any forensic evidence is tainted and/or gone. Not to mention all the sensitive security materials that have fallen into the hands of the murderers, reporters and who ever else looted the place.

This is absolutely disgraceful. At this point why did they even waste the three hours.

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- MDECKER
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 7:26pm
  The scene has been thoroughly contaminated and no Court in the U.S. would even consider the evidence found at the scene. Well, maybe an Obama Court but, not a real Court.
  
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- Bill Rowland
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 6:51am
  The “visit” was all eyewash – they put in an appearance to quite the critics who want to know why they hadn’t been there. The reporters have already picked the site for classified papers and plans. So many people have walked thru the debris that the FBI couldn’t possibly find any clues.
  Another Sweet Old Barack Joke.
  
  OMG Nov 6, 2012
  
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nosharia
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 6:01pm
FBI Needs to watch it’s back. “Communist Goals 1963″ Goal #35: Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
Holder is trying to make the FBI look like the keystone kops.

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Small World
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 4:10pm
I have my doubts. Hope they had enough security.

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- De minimus
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 5:10pm
  Sure they did.
  
  Murder of an Ambassador and 3 other personnel and they completed their investigation in 24 hours?
  
  I really wish they would hire better liars, it’s becoming quite insulting.
  
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McNamara
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 4:08pm
Hmm…that was a waste of time and jet fuel. I’d guess to say the crime scene is quite contaminated.

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HKS
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 3:47pm
Well now, I bet they did a lot of good there now. Waste of time at this point.

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hades3
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 3:42pm
My guess is that the FBI was on a plane that made a touch and go landing, allowing them to say they had landed in Libya. I doubt if they even got within shouting distance of the violent scene.

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blackyb
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 3:41pm
The FBI we have are more good at harrassing American citizens for Obama and/or the Justice Department. They are out of their element with their pink badges.

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MasterJoshua7
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 3:40pm
Not very thorough.

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fuzzy20841
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 3:20pm
I have a very hard time accepting the fact that the press and the mind-numbed public is not outraged by this!!! A mob of terrorists invade American soil, sodomizes and kill an American Ambassador and three other Americans, then the stooges at State and the WH lie, cover up and respond with a promise to send more foreign aid!! This incident alone should be grounds to expel them all!

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Gonzo
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 3:13pm
It won’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what happened. It’s elementary my dear Barack…you screwed up.

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ProjectRyeBread
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 3:12pm
An investigation 22 days after the event which only lasts a day is not an investigation at all.

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- Female
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 3:37pm
  1/4th of a day.
  
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- Lothmar
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 4:00pm
  1/4th of a day too long for them… Would you want to be over there without a battallion sized military escort?
  
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tomacz
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:48pm
FAA HAS A ‘GO TEAM’ WHENEVER THERE IS A US airplane crash,10 4 out the door,,,in a couple hours of getting the word,,,the site where the ambassador & company were killed probably been steam cleaned by the locals,,,the buck stops @ 1500 pennsylvania v

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QuincySmith
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:45pm
“A Libyan official told AFP a team of about 20 Americans in civilian clothing arrived early Thursday morning and spent about three hours collecting evidence.” ~~~ that muslim brotherhood overlooked.

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giatny
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:42pm
Why the rush????? CNN had no problem getting to the site the day after the tragedy.
My heartbreaks for the families of those murdered as this administration has increased
their pain with malicious lies and cover-ups.

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TheBurningTruth
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:40pm
Good thing that they rushed right over and preserved the evidence. After all, some prowling reporter might have already picked up something valuable like, say, oh the Ambassador’s private journal. Of course, now they’ll put a real rush on the investigation to ensure the report comes out AFTER the Nov election.

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Mangatang
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:40pm
Sooooo they entered the city, but nothing about going to the embassy? There’s not much evidence to collect unless they went to the actual scene of the crime. Seems to me like a pointless bone thrown towards the MSM and the American public about this “investigation.” Sorry, but if they really DID enter the city (for less than a DAY) and not even go near an embassy, then this “investigation” is pointless, useless, and nothing but empty calories for an administration trying so very desperately to cover their tracks.

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- Mangatang
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:42pm
  Sorry, I meant consulate, not embassy.
  
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OutObamaOut
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:38pm
3 hours of evidence collection? Well, I guess that sounds about right when you show up to a crime scene more than 3 weeks after the crime! Place was combed over by CNN on the first day, they likely weren’t the only ones to remove something.

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- QuincySmith
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:48pm
  One hour for every oblama minute spent on this matter.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:38pm
What ever is happening right now, you cannot blame the members of that team. Not for just now arriving or spending so little time at the site. Everybody in this entire team are having their unwanted strings yanked by both the White House and the State Department. And both want them to find little to nothing especially, that will link either or both to this failure.
Hey VERCEOFDUMBASS, they finally got there, so you can run that mouth of yours now.

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piper60
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:28pm
3 hours? This isn’t enough to really investigate a crime scene. They showed up yesterday BECAUSE it was debate night. Period.

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- adimeroll
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:43pm
  You are definitely in the right ballpark………
  
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Cavallo
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:26pm
They skipped out of town after their Secret Service protectors forgot to pay the local girls what they owed. Showed up, sampled the locale “wares”, then lit out of Dodge as fast as they could.

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The_Plumber_Says
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:25pm
Bullsh+t!!

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JQCitizen
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:22pm
All I can say is; What does it take to offend Congress sufficiently to get some ACTION!!!

We’d better get some answers!

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- Cavallo
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:28pm
  What action could/would they take? What can they actually get done? They can make noise. If you think this is bad now, just wait if there is a second bobo term.
  
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JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:19pm
Bulls*it

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:19pm
That was quick (if it happened). The article says the FBI stayed away from Benghazi because of security reasons. If the FBI would not go to Benghazi because of security reasons, what about that poor American ambassador forced to live there with guards that had no bullets in their guns and surrounded by killers. The ambassador that begged Washington for more security and who was ignored by hillary and obama. God help his soul. He must have indeed felt alone with bosses like that.

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Watcher1952
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:18pm
More likely that the FBI has been told to say that the team was there……What kind of an investigation can be done in 24 hours or less….. More BS they want us to believe

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