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CNN exclusive: White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks
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Posted on 05/14/2013 1:25:38 PM PDT by chessplayer

CNN has obtained an e-mail sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama about White House reaction to the deadly attack last September 11 on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that apparently differs from how sources characterized it to two different media organizations.

The actual e-mail from then-Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes appears to show that whomever leaked it did so in a way that made it appear that the White House was primarily concerned with the State Department's desire to remove references and warnings about specific terrorist groups so as to not bring criticism to the department.

(Excerpt) Read more at thelead.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghaziemails; benrhodes; dnctalkingpoints; emails; movealong; nothingtoseehere; rhodes; timelies
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This must be what Carney was talking about today when he said the GOP altered the emails. The crowing we got to do was nice while it lasted, but I knew it wouldn't last. Whoever altered the emails needs to be strung up by their thumbs. Talk about handing obama a gigantic victory on a silver plate. This will stop all the media attention on the IRS.
1 posted on 05/14/2013 1:25:38 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

That’s hail...Mary.


2 posted on 05/14/2013 1:28:49 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts help hold the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: chessplayer

Wow, the ass covering is in full swing!


3 posted on 05/14/2013 1:29:09 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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To: chessplayer

Only the wonkiest of lefties will consider this of any significance.


4 posted on 05/14/2013 1:30:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: chessplayer

Plain english for this college grad......


5 posted on 05/14/2013 1:30:39 PM PDT by ncfool (Obama's aMeriKa 2012 can we make it until 2016?)
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To: chessplayer

What do the talking points have to do with leaving thirty people to die? What do the talking points have to do with lying about a video? What do the talking points on Benghazi have to do with the IRS scandal or the AP scandal?

Answer...NOTHING!


6 posted on 05/14/2013 1:30:52 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: chessplayer

Here’s the problem for everybody ~ the GOP doesn’t run the White House so the idea they changed emails there is patently ridiculous ~ nobody believes anything from the Democrats anymore anyway


7 posted on 05/14/2013 1:31:26 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: JaguarXKE

Yep!!!! They are attempting to cover their asses.


8 posted on 05/14/2013 1:31:49 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: penelopesire

Or running guns to Syria???


9 posted on 05/14/2013 1:32:00 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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YES!! I knew I was leaving something out in my rush to respond....lol.


10 posted on 05/14/2013 1:33:20 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: chessplayer
Still waiting to see if Obama issued CBA...

Or where he was all afternooon and night.

11 posted on 05/14/2013 1:35:01 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: penelopesire

Yep!!

And who knows about what we DON’T know about??


12 posted on 05/14/2013 1:35:02 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: piasa

Maybe someone should ask Reggie Love..


13 posted on 05/14/2013 1:35:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: chessplayer

This does not at all explain away the 12 versions of talking points, which systematically expunged every reference to Ansar al- Sharia (Al Queda), pre-planned coordinated attack, and unheeded CIA warnings about potential attacks.


14 posted on 05/14/2013 1:35:41 PM PDT by kevao (.)
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To: chessplayer

I’m not getting how the GOP altered the emails. Which emails? From whom? To whom?


15 posted on 05/14/2013 1:35:43 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: chessplayer

for later


16 posted on 05/14/2013 1:36:03 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: chessplayer

Use of the term ‘equities’ is a little obtuse.


17 posted on 05/14/2013 1:36:04 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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The actual e-mail from then-Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes appears to show

I guess that all depends on what the definition of 'appears' appears to be.

18 posted on 05/14/2013 1:36:50 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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I assume you’re joking. The email says very little that was different and in any case, the news agencies were all working from a summary of the email sent to them - by the White House! So any discrepancies are once again s product of the White House. Nothing has changed and if anything it’s worse for them.


19 posted on 05/14/2013 1:36:59 PM PDT by livius
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“did so in a way that made it appear that the White House was primarily concerned with the State Department’s desire to remove references and warnings about specific terrorist groups so as to not bring criticism to the department.”

Those were only some of the details. What it APPEARED to be to EVERYONE was that the ‘WHITE HOUSE’ is, and has been lying, covering up crimes, using our military and resources to aid the enemy, blackmailing any Republican/Conservative opposition using the various branches of the government, and not being particularly good at golf.


20 posted on 05/14/2013 1:37:27 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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