SHOW CAPTION HIDE Closed Caption: >> SEAN: WELCOME BACK TO"HANNITY."AS WE TRY TO GET TO THE BOTTOMOF WHO CHANGING THE TALKINGPOINTS ON BENGHAZI.HARRY REID SAYS HE REFUSES TOALLOW REPUBLICANS TO CREATE ASPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATETHE BENGHAZI TERROR ATTACK,SAYING A PANEL WOULD FURTHERPOLITICIZE THE FALLOUT OVER THEATTACKS.JOING ME IS LIEUTENANT COLONELTHOMAS MacANERNY AND FORMERCIA OFFICER, PETER BROOKS.I DIDN'T GET THE MESSAGE ON THEGOLD TIE.BUT GOOD TO SE YOU BOTH.LOOK, IT SEEMS TO ME, THIS ISPRETTY OBVIOUS THIS.SHOULDN'T BE POLITICIZED.WE HAVE FOUR DEAD AMERICAN,FIRST AMBASSADOR KILLED IN 30YEARS, WHY ARE MY SUSPICIONSGOING TO, OH, THIS IS JUSTBEFORE AN ELECTION, WE CAN'T LETTHE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW AHEADOF TIME WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?COLONEL?>>.>> THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE FOG OFWAR, WE ARE SEEING THE FOG OFTHE WHITE HOUSE RIGHT NEW NOW.THERE IS NO REASON THEA CANNOTCOME AND SAY, WE HAD AN ATTACKBY RADICAL ISLAMIST ELEMENTS ONOUR CONSULATE IN BENGHAZI.AND THE WORLD WOULD HAVEFORGOTTEN ABOUT IT -- EXCEPT WELOST FOUR PEOPLE.INSTEAD, THEY HAVE PILED ONDIFFERENT VIEWS.WE SAW THE LATEST VIEW THISMORNING WHEN GENERAL PETRAEUSTALKED.IT JUST BOGGLES MY MIND WHY THEPRESIDENT JUST DOESN'T TAKEFULL-->>> ARE YOU CONVINCED HE LIED,COLONEL?>> WELL, I AM CONVINCED THAT HEIS NOT TELLING THE TRUTH.I AM AM CONVINCED THERE WERESEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE INVOLVEDIN THIS OPERATION AND THAT THEPRESIDENT WAS IN CHARGE AND MADETHE DECISIONS TO STAND DOWNBECAUSE WHEN HAVE YOU THESECRETARY OF DEFENSE THERE, HAVEYOU STATE AROUND, YOU HAVE CIA,THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON THATCAN MAKE THESE DECISIONS.AND THAT'S THE PRESIDENT.SO I AM CONVINCED THAT HE ISTELLING A DIFFERENT NARRATIVETHAN WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLEARE GETTING.>> SEAN: BY THE WAY, IAPOLOGIZE, I MEANT GENERAL.PETER BROOKS, WITH YOUR SOURCESIN THE CIA, I HEAR THERE WAS ALOT OF TENSION, PRIOR TO GENERALPETRAEUS LEAVING THE CIA INLARGE PART BECAUSE HE DIDN'TLIKE HIS AGENCY BEING THROWNDOWN THE STAIRS.YOUR SOURCES TOLD YOU ANYTHINGLIKE THAT?>> IT'S CLEAR THE INTELLIGENCECOMMUNITY WAS MADE A SCAPEGOAT ALONG TIME AGO, OVER THIS ISSUE.I MEAN, THIS RAN COUNTER TO THEPRESIDENT'S NARRATIVE, AS THEGENERAL ALLUDED TO, THAT ALQAEDA'S ON THE RUN, AL QAEDA'SON THE ROAD TO DEFEAT OSAMA BINLADEN IS DEAD AND G.M. IS ALIVE.THIS IS COUNTER TO THE NARRATIVETHAT ARAB SPRING WAS A SUCCESS,LIBYA WAS A SUCCESS.THE LAST THING THEY WANTED TOSAY WAS THE AMERICAN CONSULATEWAS ATTACKED ON 9/11 BY ALQAEDA.THE FIRST ESCAPE GOAT WAS THEINTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AND THEPEOPLE WERE VERY UPSET ABOUT HA.>> SEAN: I WANT TO KNOW, IF THECIA SAID IT WAS AL QAEDA ANDGENERAL PETRAEUS KNEWINSTANTANEOUSLY WHAT THIS WASABOUT AND THIS IS THEANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 AND THELIBYAN PRESIDENT IS SAYING THISEARLY ON AND -- AND WE AREWATCHING IT IN REALTIME, ANDEVERYBODY ELSE, WE KNEW WITHIN24 HOURS OF THE ATTACK, THESTATION CHIEF IS SAYING THISFROM LIBYA, HOW DID WE POSSIBLYGET TO THE VIDEO IN THE FIRSTPLACE?DOES ANYBODY KNOW?>> WELL, THE VIDEO -- MYUNDERSTANDING THE VIDEO WASSECURITY CAMERAS THAT WERERUNNING AT THAT TIME, AVAILABLE,THEY WOULD BE RUNNING AT MOSTDIPLOMATIC FACILITIES AROUND THEWORLD.AND THAT SORT OF VIDEO WASRECOVERED AND PROBABLYTRANSMITTED BACK TO WASHINGTON,EITHER IMMEDIATELY-->>> MAYBE YOU MISUNDERSTOOD MYQUESTION.HOW DO WE GET TO BLAMING THIS ONA youtube VIDEO?>> OH, OKAY.I THINK WHAT IT IS THAT THEINTELLIGENCE WAS POLITICIZED.THEY GAVE THEIR BEST ASSESSMENT,INCLUDING WHAT GENERAL PETRAEUSTOLD CONGRESS ABOUT AL QAEDAINVOLVEMENT, BEING A TERRORISTATTACK AND AS IT WENT UP THE OFCOMMAND, THE PEOPLE IN THE WHITEHOUSE WHO SENT OUT AMBASSADORRICE TO REPRESENT THE WHITEHOUSE ON THE SUNDAY SHOW,DECIDED WHAT THE TALKING POINTSWOULD BE.MY SENSE IS, WE ARE GOING TOHEAR FROM THEM, WE ARE TRYING TOPROTECT THE INTELLIGENCE SOURCESANDxx METHODS.WE DIDN'T WANT AL QAEDA TO KNOWWE WERE ON TO THEM OR PERHAPS-->>> IT'S LATE FOR THAT -->> WE GOT A LOT OF DIFFERENTASSESSMENTS OUT THERE ANDTHAT -- THIS WAS ONLY ONE OF THEASSESSMENTS, WAS CIA, BUT OTHERPEOPLE WERE TELLING US IT MAYHAVE BEEN THIS VIDEO AND THIS ISWHEN WE DECIDED ON.THEY ARE GOING ON SPIN THIS.THEY HAVE A DAY OR TWO TO DOTHAT BEFORE MONDAY MORNING WHENTHE PRESS WILL START ASKING THEMQUESTIONS?>> GENERAL, WHAT DO YOU THINK?>> I THINK PETER'S PRET LEONTOIT, EXCEPT, LOOK, THERE AREUPWARDS OF 20-PLUS EMBASSIESTHAT WERE BEING ATTACKED ORDEMONSTRATIONS BASED ON THEyoutube VIDEO.SO THEY OBVIOUSLY SAW THAT ANDTRIED TO SWITCH IT OVER TOBENGHAZI, WHICH WAS THE WRONGDECISION.AND I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY TRIEDTO DO IT.IT WASN'T NECESSARY, EXCEPT ITDID DESTROY THE NARRATIVE THATHE HAD BEEN SPINNINGPOLITICALLY.SO IT REALLY MEANS THAT THEPOLITICIANS GOT INVOLVED WITHTHIS, NOT THE INTELLIGENCEAGENCIES.THEY WERE TOLD TO DO CERTAINTHINGS, THAT BECAME VERY CLEARTHIS MORNING, WHEN GENERALPETRAEUS TESTIFIED.-->>> I WANT TO KNOW -->> IT WAS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.>> SEAN: I WANT TO KNOW WHY THEYDENIED AFTER THE BRITISHAMBASSADOR LEFT, AFTER THE REDCROSS LEFT, WHY DID THEY DENYAMBASSADOR STEVENS MULTIPLEREQUESTS FOR ADDITIONALSECURITY?THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN.WHY DIDN'T THEY BEEF UP SECURITYON THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11?AND DURING THE ATTACK, CLEARLYREQUESTS FOR HELP, WE HAD CIAPEOPLE IN TRIPOLI CHARTER ANAIRPLANE TO GO HELP THESE GUYSBUT THERE WERE ONLY SIX OF THEM.WHERE WAS THE ARE THEASSISTANCE?>> SEAN, THEY GET A HUGE "F" FORPRE-PLANNING ON THE 11thANNIVERSARY OF 9/11.WE SHOULD HAVE HAD A GLOBAL HAWKOVER BENGHAZI THAT HAD FOURSENSOR, LOOKING AT THAT AT THAT TIMECONTINUOUSLY.WE SHOULD HAVE HAD OFF-SHOREARMED PREDATORS THAT COULD HAVECOME IN, OR ARMED F-16s, WESHOULD HAVE DONE A LOT OFTHINGS.AND FRANKLY, THE MILITARY ANDTHE PRESIDENT HIMSELF WASCOMMANDENER CHIEF, HAD THATNARRATIVE THAT EVERYTHING ISOKAY.AND WE WERE JUST UTTERLYUNPREPARED.WE DID NO PREPLANNING AND IBELIEVE THE CHAIRMAN OF THEJOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF OUGHT TOTAKE SOME HITS FOR THAT.>> SEAN: GENTLEMEN, THANK YOUBOTH.WE WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THATSTORY.AND COMING UP, TWO OF THE BIGSTORIES WE ARE FOLLOWING, AMEETING OF THE MINDS AT THEWHITE HOUSE.AND IT'S ALL ABOUT THE, QUOTE,FISCAL CLIFF.ARE REPUBLICANS GOING TO HOLDTHE LINE ON RAISING YOUR TAXES?AND DID THE PRESIDENT GREENLIGHTSPENDING CUTS?WE WILL CHECK IN WITHCONGRESSMAN LOUIS GOMER AND ATENSE SITUATION IN THEMIDDLE-EAST, AS ISRAELREPORTEDLY IS NOW READIED 75,000RESERVISTS AND THEY HAVE TANKSON THE BORDER IFAR A POSSIBLEGROUND WAR.WE WILL GO TO ISRAEL WITH A LIVEREPORT, STRAIGHT AHEAD.