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[[File:Obama UN.jpg|right|275px|thumb|Obama crowing just days after the murder of Americans, "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."]]
[[File:Obama UN.jpg|right|275px|thumb|Obama crowing just days after the murder of Americans, "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."]]
*'''25 September.''' President Obama crows from the speakers platform at the United Nations, "[T]he future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."<ref>http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obamafuture.asp</ref>
*'''25 September.''' President Obama crows from the speakers platform at the United Nations, "[T]he future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."<ref>http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obamafuture.asp</ref>
===October 2012===
*'''2 October.''' Sec. Hillary Clinton announces her selection of appointees to an Accountability Review Board (ARB), which will conduct an internal review and whitewash of the Benghazi massacre. The board begins work the same week. Clinton ultimately will never be interviewed by the Accountability investigators.
*'''3 October.''' Sec. Hillary Clinton responds to question at press conference, "I believe that our diplomats, our leaders, and the American people deserve a rigorous, serious, careful process."
*'''5 October.''' <font color="brown">''[[Time magazine]]'' announces the formation of the 20,000 strong Omar al-Farouq Brigade in Syria, one of the "moderate rebel" groups receiving American funding under the umbrella [[Free Syrian Army]].<ref>http://world.time.com/2012/10/05/syrias-up-and-coming-rebels-who-are-the-farouq-brigades-2/</ref> In May 2015 [[Human Rights Watch]] releases a video of one of its commanders carving the heart and liver out of a dead Assad regime soldier and eating the heart.</font>
*'''15 October.''' Hillary Clinton first acknowledges that the State Dept. considered using outside assets to rescue Amb. Stevens and those under siege in Benghazi, but decided against it: "Well we considered everything and, um, we did as you know send additional assets from Tripoli. But it was a fast moving, very difficult assault to try to figure out. As you know, the assault on the post ended, there was a gap of time, then the assault on the annex, um, so everybody who had any responsibility was scrambling very hard to figure out what more could be done." Clinton said they did not send assets from outside Libya "partly because of the difficulties of trying to do that...but I think all of this will be examined in the Accountability Review Board because after all we have this independent board to sort through everything." The Accountability Review Board never spoke with Clinton.<!--Amb. Stevens had to die because he knew about the transfer of captured weapons in Libya to Syria. The Syrian groups that received the captured weapons ultimately founded the Islamic State.-->
*'''16 October.''' President Obama issues top secret presidential directive on ordering intelligence officials to draw up a list of overseas targets for cyberattacks. According to ''The Guardian'', the directive also “contemplates the possible use of cyber actions inside the US.”
*'''19 October.''' In the weeks before his murder, Amb. Stevens sent the State Dept. several requests for increased security for diplomats in Libya, CBS News' Attkisson reports.
*'''20 October.''' Attkisson reports no outside US military help was sent to Benghazi despite the presence of a major naval air base in Sigonella, [[Italy]], less than one hour's flight away.
*'''21 October.''' <font color="brown">In debate, Obama chastises [[Mitt Romney]] with:
{{Quotebox|I’m glad that you recognize that al Qaeda is a threat, because a few months ago when you were asked what’s the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.}}
:Although the line is meant as a zinger, the mainstream media is not reporting (a) Obama armed and supported al Qaeda to overthrow Gaddafi; (b) the same al Qaeda groups Obama armed and assisted attacked the US embassey in Benghazi and murdered Americans; and (c) at that very moment Obama was arming al Qaede in Syria which mutated into the Islamic State.</font>
*'''23 October.''' Sharyl Attkisson obtains some of the Obama administrations's first internal emergency alerts sent during the Benghazi attack. As the assault began, at 4:05 p.m. ET on September 11, an alert from the State Dept. Operations Center was issued to various government emergency watch lists including the White House Situation Room, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the FBI. Entitled "''US Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack''," the alert reports "approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM (Chief of Mission/embassy) personnel are in the compound safe haven."
*Another alert an hour later reports: "the firing... has stopped...A response team is on site attempting to locate COM personnel."
*At 6:07 p.m. ET, an alert was sent with the subject heading "''Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack''." The US Embassy in Tripoli, says the alert, reports the group "claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli." That alert was sent around midnight in Benghazi, hours before the wave of mortar attacks against the CIA Benghazi annex began.
*'''October.''' CBS begins airing Attkisson’s Benghazi stories which rely on whistleblowers and numerous government-linked confidential sources. These sources report that the [[Executive Branch]] is clamping down on leaks to reporters regarding the Benghazi massacre.
*Justice Dept. continues its stepped-up National Security Division cyber efforts, holding specialized training at DOJ headquarters for the National Security Cyber Specialists (NSCS) network and the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS).
*As CIA Dir. Petraeus’s interagency relationships deteriorate over his refusal to go along with White House and State Dept. Benghazi talking points, unnamed FBI agents reach out to Republicans in Congress to tell about Petraeus’s affair. They eventually land at the office of Republican majority leader Eric Cantor. With the presidential elections about a week away, Cantor stays mum on the Petraeus rumors and instead contacts the FBI about them.
*The FBI interviews Petraeus and Broadwell a second time.
==Syria==
==Syria==