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| US spy chief rejects criticism |
| US spy chief rejects criticism over Libya attacks
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 10-October-2012
5:18:41 AM |
| The chief of US intelligence has rejected criticism over how spy agencies responded to a deadly attack on diplomats in Libya and said there was no clear warning before the onslaught.
Pushing back against allegations from Republican lawmakers, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested on Tuesday it was naive to believe the government could have quickly arrived at a definitive explanation of last month's attack on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.
The veteran intelligence official, appearing at a security conference in Orlando, Florida, voiced frustration with the criticism directed at his spy service, as he recounted reading through media coverage on a flight back from a working trip to Australia.
"I flew back to Washington, and I'm reading the media clips about the hapless, hopeless, helpless, inept, incompetent DNI, because I acknowledged publicly that we didn't instantly have that 'God's eye, God's ear' certitude about an event as I mentioned earlier," said Mr Clapper, according to a video of his remarks released by his office.
"It kind of made me want to get right back on the plane to Australia."
Mr Clapper said there was no telltale sign of an imminent attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11, when dozens of gunmen laid siege to the compound, killing US ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his staff.
"The challenge is always a tactical warning, the exact insights ahead of time that such an attack is going to take place and obviously we did not have that," Mr Clapper said, answering questions after a speech.
"If people don't behave, emit a behavior or talk or something else ahead of time to be detected, it's going to be very hard to predict an exact attack and come up with an exact attack."
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