Month Before Benghazi Attack: "Smoking Gun Warning" from Benghazi is put into the hand of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Fox News' Catherine  Herridge  —   "What I see is a growing body of evidence that the State Department has culpability for the death of the Ambassador and those three Americans.... The warnings were specific, they were direct, they name the enemy and they said that this consulate [in Benghazi] needed more support. And it also indicated in the cable that the consulate should probably move long-term into the annex [that we] now know [ ] is the CIA facility in Benghazi."

A Fox News report on October 31, 2012  by Catherine Herridge, entitled, “Exclusive: Classified cable warned consulate couldn't withstand 'coordinated attack' ” indicates that a “Classified” State Department Cable exists, which summarizes an August 15, 2012  emergency meeting [referred to as the “Emergency Action Committee”]  had been convened by the U.S. Mission in Benghazi. The August 16th cable is marked “SECRET” and says that the senior security officer, also known as the RSO, did not believe the consulate could be protected.

Herridge reports:  “A review of the cable addressed to the Office of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Emergency Action Committee was also briefed ‘on the location of approximately ten Islamist militias and AQ training camps within Benghazi … these groups ran the spectrum from Islamist militias, such as the QRF Brigade and Ansar al-Sharia, to “Takfirist thugs.”’ Each U.S. mission has a so-called Emergency Action Committee that is responsible for security measures and emergency planning.”

According to Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge "I really believe, having read it, that it is the smoking gun warning here. You've got this emergency meeting in Benghazi, less than a month before the attack. At that briefing, the people are told that there are ten, ten, Islamic militias and al-Qaeda groups in Benghazi. The consulate can not sustain a coordinated attack and they need extra help. This information goes directly to the office of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. So, again, you have the culpability of the State Department. This is a very specific warning that they're in trouble, they need help and they see an attack on the horizon,"

Herridge went on to say that, "I can't think of anything that would be more specific than if these groups had emailed the State Department and said, 'Here's the time, here's the place, and here's the method of the attack'."