New insight into WH response in wake of Libya attack

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We have a better idea tonight of what went on inside the Obama administration right after the deadly attack on the US mission in Libya.

This comes as we get new information about the investigation into that assault chief Washington correspondent James Rosen has the latest.

You should not assume that.

All that we didn't include do you or have been doing is.

-- -- -- -- -- -- Indeed FBI agents only today made their first foray into the badly damaged consulate compound in Ben -- almost a month after the attacks and escorted by US military personnel.

We've not been.

-- Sitting around waiting you know for information to come to us.

We've been actively you know chasing leaves in various ways.

Earlier this week the Washington Post publish sensitive papers that a reporter retrieved from the consulate grounds.

Including an annotated hourly schedule for ambassador Chris Stevens for the day he died.

Frankly none of us were surprised to -- to see them at the site.

Fox News has learned that senior national security aides to President Obama and intelligence officials remained divided longer that has previously been disclosed.

About how to characterize the Bengals he attacks to the public the president's team made a secret finding of terrorism by September 12.

So it could use a 2001 anti terrorism statute to move around more -- money men and materiel and yet the internal debate continued.

And only intensified once UN ambassador or Susan Rice made the Sunday show rounds to claim that the attacks were the result of a spontaneous -- But we don't see at this point.

Signs that this was a coordinated plan premeditated attack.

The next day Fox News has learned high level US intelligence officials contacted several independent security contractors.

To review post attack footage of the -- -- were to ex Navy SEALs were killed.

The contractors found that the impact angles and fragmentation patterns of the mortar damaged.

Revealed at least two mortar teams using GPS devices to -- direct hits on their first shots the intelligence officials who already believe the attacks to be coordinated and professional used these outside assessments internally to rebut the rice narrative.

And the very next day the nation's top counterterrorism official ended the dispute and for good.

What -- certainly on that particular question I would say yes they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy.

The State Department disclosed that its own internal panel reviewing the Ben Ghazi episode the accountability review border -- -- met for the first time today.

Sharing the board is former UN ambassador Thomas Pickering and among its members is the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff admiral Mike Mullen.

DA RB is supposed to report its findings to secretary of state Clinton within sixty days time unless Pickering requests more time -- We're learning more every day --

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