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Dr. Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Prize Laureate, gives his take on the attacks in Benghazi and the lack of communication ...
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Hard eight was behind closed doors what we are now learning that CI -- director David Petraeus did tell lawmakers.
That.
This deadly raid.
-- godsey.
Was a terrorist attack the administration with healthy set of the time the suspected role of specific al-Qaeda affiliates.
In that attack.
But that that general was adamant that this was no politicization of the process.
At the time and no interference or political agenda.
We're told from Democrats interpreting his remarks that he completely debunked that idea Republicans have just the opposite view.
And that that's this is now a growing scandal for the White House it's hard to say this much.
Is not the Ghazi will remain in the news for sometime to come.
The former secretary of state Henry Kissinger joins me right now secretary a -- we don't know we do know news.
That it's calling into question.
Communication.
In our intelligence systems are you worried about that.
In -- -- -- experience.
Huge compete for -- automatic that.
Intended to -- information.
Of credit he threatened to do White House to to a a true.
And it tended to -- hood to -- Take quote -- measures.
Of what could insisted that he would but it played.
So.
Lack of communication -- -- -- do that and difficult to credit.
So when you -- the first reports are of the -- The administration was sticking to a narrative that this was all inspired by video.
-- and then we came to discover that know almost immediately they might have known it was a terror tactic just.
He didn't say that.
What do you think of that.
It might influence some fixed opinions precluded happened -- put the editing and do.
-- -- group of those who didn't didn't.
I looked at debt issue.
From the somewhat different perspective to begin -- because.
I had known.
That didn't -- group contingent of Qaeda recruit and -- Came from suited -- And so that the play into opening got a -- -- located.
Had been known as.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Of those medical group speaking to -- And the -- right nobody knows how to like communicate -- didn't did that government.
I have no -- noted.
Now since that series you're where.
There's this General Petraeus.
Affair scandal.
I don't wanna get into the details -- that lot we don't know but I I I did find it curious that it was the FBI.
That that.
That has been leading this investigation.
On him and what he knew and it raises concerns -- CC IA and FBI.
Are at it again or or or -- or pull warring again.
But even.
-- I have -- to have to admit the privilege of knowing.
-- contributed to a nearly a decade.
I think it's a great man.
And it didn't finish and inflicted.
And so head of feeling.
That he had done.
Paid -- for the country could deduct it candidates it.
The interest muted -- In relation to blood at a different code beginning at oh I know -- -- but I guess let me ask -- about the CIA and FBI -- -- -- -- -- CIA FBI kept -- -- I would -- to believe that.
And I would hate that would that would -- from didn't have to bid -- -- people doing the CDU's.
That.
It can be that it could hear the good of a particular investigation had been applied to have the -- of good food but -- it.
But I don't want to -- and demoted.
-- have been.
And true that daily.
-- it according to duty.
Constructions.
Of which they -- put it.
When when you -- with President Nixon.
Even that there was talk that -- the organization's.
We're fundamentally.
Competing with on the of -- that they would oftentimes overlap.
And and that that that was okay because the feeling was that they -- -- the greater intelligence good for the country.
But it doesn't.
-- it would lead kit Newton -- growth -- the FBI did it to cooped up in.
To -- investigations and in to a group.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- It was not permitted to upgraded its country and upgraded to Brooke that sometimes.
People that into my gross.
And I did not.
I knew would could sit that there -- to -- -- -- did indeed be agreed to to introduce.
I did not come approach it couldn't do what they did the -- that -- addiction.
-- made.
But that.
I don't we're not back to that that.
I got -- add to that.
-- but this is this.
A scandal that grows in your opinion -- -- for now.
You know.
I.
To do its.
Government -- But I would like.
Note to -- if the new administration get it's done it.
-- -- It out avoid to -- contributed to know if stated to navigation.
That.
Information what's known at a high level knowingly kept from the template.
That to see you use -- to method that the congress who.
Wounded look into.
-- -- -- -- I'd like to -- couldn't -- future.
And that.
Candidate since -- give him.
At the beginning of commitment -- that would be my attitude.
But it's.
Distinction really.
It's evident just developed.
Who made -- It -- to.
That.
It would be consequences.
-- public opinion but it hasn't.
