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Judicial Watch Obtains Court-ordered State Department Diplomatic Security Command Center Records concerning Terrorist Attack on Benghazi
Top State Department Official Admitted to Congress that Command Center "could follow what was happening in almost real-time"
Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5188
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2015 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained court-ordered documents in accordance with its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. State Department seeking "any and all logs, reports, or other records" the Washington-based Diplomatic Security Command Center produced between September 10, 2012, and September 13, 2012, relating to the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on October 16, 2014, (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01733)).
According to testimony given by Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State Charlene Lamb before the House Oversight Committee on October 10, 2012, the Command Center knew the Benghazi compound was under hostile fire from the moment the attack began. Lamb's testimony was in direct conflict with initial false claims by the Obama administration that the attack arose from a spontaneous demonstration in response to an Internet video.
"When the attack began," Lamb testified, "a Diplomatic Security agent working in the Tactical Operations Center immediately activated the Imminent Danger Notification System and made an emergency announcement over the PA. Based on our security protocols, he also alerted the annex U.S. quick reaction security team stationed nearby, the Libyan 17th February Brigade, Embassy Tripoli, and the Diplomatic Security Command Center in Washington. From that point on, I could follow what was happening in almost real-time."
Despite knowing it was an attack, the State Department, including its security Command Center, continued to falsely tie "demonstrations" to the Benghazi terrorist assault. The State Department's January 20 document production contains a press release issued by the Diplomatic Security Command Center, on September 12, 2012, that falsely states that "violent demonstrations took place at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and at the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya, resulting in damages in both locations and casualties in Benghazi."
