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New emails show administration knew about terrorist involvement as the attack happened
- Duration 7:28
- Date Oct 23, 2012
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This is a Fox News alert new evidence and Fox News at the Obama administration knew the -- attack was an act of terror even as it happened.
Fox News has obtained internal State Department emails the email showing that an al-Qaeda linked group claimed responsibility for the -- does -- attack as his salt was ongoing.
-- the US consulate the State Department sent emails to the White House situation room the Pentagon the FBI the national intelligence director and the State Department.
That means hundreds of national security biggest receiving emails in real time -- -- -- John Bolton joins us.
Sitting there it's good evening.
Well I -- now there's -- paper trail there's now proof.
That the State Department and the White House knew as this was going on.
That a terrorist group with links to al-Qaeda had claimed responsibility FaceBook and Twitter yet they came -- -- that ridiculous video story.
But this is no surprise what we know that these security guards at the compound in Ben Ghazi -- in cell phone contact.
With the State Department in real time.
Technology being what it is they don't send old fashioned cables.
Back to the State Department in in times of great urgency they send emails and now apparently we've got.
Several of them that -- widely distributed in the United States government.
And it's not surprising because the the people on the ground and then guys he knew the security environment that they face.
And expected -- they'd been cabling back -- the department asking for security enhancements.
And this is simply playing out of everything they worried about now as you say there.