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In Vegas on Sept. 12 Obama said Benghazi was terrorism

Sometimes when politicians visit Las Vegas, what they say here (because we can be a bit of a media backwater) stays here.

That seems to be the case in the controversy over whether the president knew the killing of our Ambassador to Libya in Benghasi was an act of terrorism or not.

Here is the unedited speech from President Obama, just hours after his Rose Garden speech on the deaths. Unlike the Rose Garden speech, which was ambiguous about what exactly Obama was calling an act of terrorism, in Las Vegas there is no doubt. He called Benghazi an act of terrorism.

Which begs one big question. If the president had no doubt our ambassador was assassinated in concerted act of terror, why the hell was he in Las Vegas on a garden-variety campaign stop? You'd think he'd want to be in Washington, D.C., meeting face-to-face with his security team. Instead, he phoned it it. Literally. Remember, at that time the Middle East was afire with anti-American rhetoric and four Americans already lay dead at the hands of armed terrorists.

And why on Sept. 25 when asked directly whether it was terrorism President Obama pussyfooted around and said it was "under investigation." There is so much about this whole deal -- including the weird actions of our president -- that make no sense.

I'm going to write more about this on Sunday. For now, take a look at the tape from Las Vegas. Without doubt the president knew it was terrorism that killed our ambassador.

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