Those Darn E-Mails

Several e-mails circulated by the State Department within hours of the September 11th terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi during which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed discussed the fact that an al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for the attack. According to Fox News sources, at least 300-400 national security officials in our government received these e-mails. So why did the Obama administration deny the obvious for almost two weeks? Was their confidence in their ability to control the mainstream media message so high that it believed it could always control the message being communicated to the American people no matter how overwhelming the evidence was to the contrary?