Kevin Drum, the writer from Mother Jones who wrote this piece, either doesn’t fact-check his stories or he has been living in a monastery for the last two years. I’ll assume it isn’t the monastery…he works for Mother Jones…

According to Mother Jones:

The Republican obsession with Benghazi is about to get yet another airing, and as much as I’m loath to waste time on this, I’d like to make a point that even a lot of liberals still seem to be confused about. It’s about the video.

First, a quick recap: A few days after the attacks, the intelligence community believed that the initial street protests in Benghazi had been prompted by anger over the Arabic-language version of the “Innocence of Muslims” video, which had been posted on YouTube a few days earlier. The White House repeated this publicly,

Um, no, CIA on the ground has already said that the intel was all about an attack, not a demonstration.

Drum then reiterates the false NY Times administration puff piece claiming there was a demonstration:

The violence, though, also had spontaneous elements. Anger at the video motivated the initial attack. Dozens of people joined in, some of them provoked by the video and others responding to fast-spreading false rumors that guards inside the American compound had shot Libyan protesters.

Again, no. Let’s listen to the people on the ground that night:

The guard, interviewed Thursday in the hospital where he is being treated for five shrapnel wounds in one leg and two bullet wounds in the other, said that the consulate area was quiet – “there wasn’t a single ant outside,” he said – until about 9:35 p.m., when as many as 125 armed men descended on the compound from all directions.

The men lobbed grenades into the compound, wounding the guard and knocking him to the ground, then stormed through the facility’s main gate, shouting “God is great” and moving to one of the many villas that make up the consulate compound. He said there had been no warning that an attack was imminent.

and

The guard’s tale is consistent with a version offered Wednesday by the man who had leased the compound to the United States.

Standing outside the fire-gutted compound, Mohammad al Bishari said the attack began with assailants carrying assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and the black flag of Ansar al Shariah moving from two directions against the compound.

But let’s listen to what Barack Obama has to say about people who have such firepower, as those in Benghazi did. It’s Obama talking yesterday about the firepower of the “pro-Russians” indicating organization, and planned effort of Russia:

Generally, local protesters also usually don’t have mortars they can use against Americans under fire at the CIA safe house.