let them see.." is not censorship. For security reasons, of course official press statements are circumspect; who would announce, "I know who you are and where you are and I have a secret plan on how to get you and yours without you knowing I know who you are and where you are and what I'll do about it?" Like the Shah of Iran told Barbara Walters before all hell broke loose, "My people can't handle the truth."
. . . and this is just a preface to the post of "As I See/Saw It" Benghazi.
More preface: When the United States makes a press statement on a satellite news agency, as all of them are, the statements are carefully constructed not just to announce to American Citizens what is going on but to people all over the world.
"Think Globally, Act Locally"
The statements, then, released to the press on Benghazi were not just for people in the United States in front of their televisions tuned in to their local news stations. In the case of the Benghazi to middle east blow-up, do the people now castigating the composers of press statements here, the releasers of detailed information here, not think that those responsible for the deadly attack on the consulate (not the Embassy) were not watching the news to see the results of their actions? Sheesh.
Now, as to How I See It, i.e. as I saw it at the time the news broke:
(insert to come)
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