Smells criminal to me.
"State Department sought to change Libya talking points" by Donna Cassata and Julie Pace | Associated Press, May 11, 2013
WASHINGTON — Political considerations influenced the talking points that UN Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya, with State Department and other senior administration officials asking that references to terror groups and prior warnings be deleted, according to department e-mails.
The latest disclosures Friday raised new questions about whether the Obama administration tried to play down any terrorist factor in the attack on a diplomatic compound just weeks before the November election. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed when insurgents struck the US mission.
Yeah, it SURE AS HELL DOES!
The White House has insisted that it made only a ‘‘stylistic’’ change to the intelligence agency talking points from which Rice suggested on five Sunday talk shows that demonstrations over an anti-Islamic video devolved into the Benghazi attack.
Talking points? I thought that was only something dishonest Repuglicans from Fox did. Wow, what a door-blowing eye-opener. Btw, I am aware I missed the Muslim protests like I've missed a lot of things (nearly 10 months behind, if not more), but you can pretty quickly see why.
Numerous agencies had engaged in an e-mail discussion about the talking points that would be provided to members of Congress and to Rice for their public comments. In one e-mail, then-State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland worried about the effect of openly discussing earlier warnings about the dangers of Islamist extremists in Benghazi.
Translation: it was a COVER-UP right from the start!
Nuland’s e-mail said such revelations ‘‘could be abused by members of Congress to beat the State Department for not paying attention to [CIA] warnings,’’ according to a congressional official who reviewed the 100 pages of e-mails.
Translation: they were WORRIED ABOUT the PUBLIC IMAGE, not the TRUTH or the DEAD!
The final talking points that weekend reflected the work of several government agencies — CIA, FBI, State Department, the office of the Director of National Intelligence — apparently determined to cast themselves in the best light as the investigation was getting underway....
Obviously, they were not as fleshed out for Boston.
Eight months after the attack, the dispute between the Obama administration and congressional Republicans on the subject shows no sign of abating. The GOP argues that the administration tried to mislead Congress and the American people.
They didn't try, they did.
The White House insists that Republicans are trying to politicize the issue....
Translation: guilty as charged
Republicans have complained that the administration was trying to conceal that the attack was the work of terrorists. Such revelations just before the election perhaps could have undercut President Obama’s record on fighting terrorism, including the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Yeah, he didn't get the bump he needed from that staged and scripted pos, so they set up another production to make Obama look butch -- on 9/11 and everything. Then it went bad, an ambassador was killed, and they were scrambling for talking points.
You know, after the last pos administration I was really expecting better from the Democrat. Silly me.
The State Department e-mails and other internal administration deliberations were summarized last month in an interim report by Republicans on five House committees. New details about political concerns and the names of the administration officials who wrote the e-mails concerning the talking points emerged Friday.
You can scream politics all you want; however, I think it's important when the American people have been lied to.
Following Capitol Hill briefings, members of Congress asked the CIA for talking points to explain the assault, and the CIA put together an assessment. It said Islamist extremists with ties to Al Qaeda took part in the attack, but Nuland wrote that she had serious concerns about giving information to members of Congress ‘‘to start making assertions to the media that we ourselves are not making because we don’t want to prejudice the investigation.’’
I knew I never liked Nuland because of what I've read in print.
Senior administration officials, including Jake Sullivan, deputy chief of staff at the State Department, and Ben Rhodes, the White House deputy national security adviser, met that Saturday morning to finalize the talking points.
This is why the country is collapsing. These guys are fooling around with imagery while the place is burning to the ground.
Deputy CIA Director Mike Morrell worked with the officials to produce a final set of talking points that deleted mentions of Al Qaeda, the experience of fighters in Libya and Islamist extremists, according to the congressional official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about the e-mails.
The next day, Sept. 16, Rice appeared on the talk shows and said evidence gathered so far showed no indication of a premeditated or coordinated strike. She said the attack in Benghazi, powered by mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, appeared to be a copycat of demonstrations outside the US Embassy in Cairo, spurred by accounts of a YouTube film attributed to a Californian mocking the Prophet Mohammad.
Which was never even a movie. It was a dubbing of another, totally unrelated film. The pos propaganda never really existed, folks. And yet the AmeriKan media still trots it out there.
Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Operation Mockingbird
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
Oh, now it all makes sense to me.
Administration officials said Friday they deleted the references to terror groups because it was then unclear — and still is — who was responsible for the attack.
Oh, no, I think we are pretty Clear on who is/was responsIble for the Attack.
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Related: Riveting accounts fill hearing on attack in Libya
Then why wasn't I riveted?
