Sen. Feinstein: I believe an investigation is going on in this country.
CNN lead political anchor Wolf Blitzer interviewed Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) today about the killings in Libya of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others. A highlight from the interview is after the jump.
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Full Transcript from the Interview
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BLITZER: Does it look like this was a carefully planned operation that was in the works for a while?
What’s the latest assessment…
FEINSTEIN: Yes, I can…
BLITZER: — on that?
FEINSTEIN: — I can say that I’ve seen no evidence or no assessment that indicates it was. I — I can certainly say that. There was a protest and it could well be that quickly, some two dozen people took that as an opportunity to attack. They have attacked the Benghazi consulate before. I believe it was on June 6th. So this is not a new thing.
But I think one of the great lessons out of this is that our consulates in these very troubled nine Middle Eastern nations must be in very secure locations, if we have them there at all.
BLITZER: The Libyan prime minister has told our Christiane Amanpour, Senator, that at least one person, possibly more, have been arrested.
FEINSTEIN: That’s right.
BLITZER: Have you been briefed on who was had…
FEINSTEIN: No.
BLITZER: — any affiliations they may have with any organizations?
FEINSTEIN: No. Once the news is ahead. But I’m — I’m very pleased to learn the same thing, that people have been arrested. And I believe an investigation is going on in this country concerning the individual who did this very obnoxious 12 minute preview of some very stupid movie and wrong-headed movie. And he may well not be who he has claimed to be either.
So we’re going to have to find out a lot about what happened.
I would hope, a big day is coming up tomorrow. It’s Friday. It’s a day of prayer in the Islamic world. And I would really hope that cool minds prevail. We now have 11 ongoing demonstrations in various countries and more expected. And I think — I hope that people who are very concerned, as all the world is, by this, will understand that demonstrating, hurting innocent people, perhaps some deaths resulting, please don’t let it happen.