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CNN cites ABC News, Weekly Standard for inaccurate Benghazi reports
Washington Post ^ | 5/13/13 | Erik Wemple

Posted on 05/14/2013 6:24:27 PM PDT by Nachum

CNN’s Jake Tapper has an e-mail regarding those famous Benghazi talking points. This particular document, Tapper’s story suggests: 1) Puts the White House’s role in editing the Benghazi talking points in a different light; 2) Raises questions regarding those who had leaked previous iterations of the talking points; 3) Outs ABC News and the Weekly Standard as purveyors of inaccurate information! The e-mail obtained by Tapper was sent by Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodesjust after 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, just as the White House was trying to nail down the talking points

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abc; benghazi; cnn; libya; obamasfault; reports
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1 posted on 05/14/2013 6:24:27 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 05/14/2013 6:25:39 PM PDT by bigbob
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How does anyone know if any of these “released” Emails is true.

They can create whatever electronic trail they want.


3 posted on 05/14/2013 6:26:20 PM PDT by DB
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Hey Jake!

Have you noticed the source of the LIES is the WHITE HOUSE & STATE DEPT?


4 posted on 05/14/2013 6:26:49 PM PDT by G Larry (Darkness Hates the Light)
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Jake Tapper has what credibility to stand on? It’s kill the messenger time.


5 posted on 05/14/2013 6:26:56 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: Nachum

CNN! ROTFL! Is that old dinosaur still around?


6 posted on 05/14/2013 6:28:38 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you think ObamaCare is a train wreck, wait until you see the amnesty bill.)
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To: Nachum

Tapper was played, big time.


7 posted on 05/14/2013 6:31:20 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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8 posted on 05/14/2013 6:32:23 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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CNN’s release of the Rhodes e-mail won’t roil the Benghazi issue. Regardless of the interagency allegiances of Rhodes, the talking points underwent a shrinking act that resulted in bogus information getting blasted out to millions of people less than a week after the attacks.
9 posted on 05/14/2013 6:33:04 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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Well they could, but the bizarre thing is that it was the WH that released the supposedly “fake” emails to the press in the first place. Actually, the WH refused to release the e-mails, supposedly on national security grounds, and instead gave the reporters a summary, edited by the WH, of what was supposedly in the emails.

I’m sure ABC and everybody else who received these summaries has copies of them and the WH is going to look even worse now. If that’s possible.


10 posted on 05/14/2013 6:34:20 PM PDT by livius
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Jake Tapper has what credibility to stand on?

Jake Tapper left ABC, as chief WH correspondent for ABC, to take his current job at CNN. Me thinks with CNN's abysmal ratings he is second guessing leaving ABC ... and is trying to upstage them with this BS. Accept reality Tapper you picked the slowest horse in the ratings race.

11 posted on 05/14/2013 6:34:38 PM PDT by BluH2o
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CNN are Communists in the wings!


12 posted on 05/14/2013 6:35:05 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: onyx
At best, Obama is like Warren G Harding -- a man with some charisma who was in over his head, knew that he was in over his head, and who was surrounded by corrupt people who took advantage of the levers of power.

However, that's the best case scenario. I actually think Obama is quite competent and is working diligently to damage this country as much as possible. I think Obama has been remarkably successful as president.

13 posted on 05/14/2013 6:35:24 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Retired Chemist

Right.
This is about the third article related to Tapper’s “big scoop.” Jake got played big time.


14 posted on 05/14/2013 6:35:41 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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Right. He’s corrupt and power mad. He set out to destroy, “colonial, white America.”


15 posted on 05/14/2013 6:36:58 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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Since playing Tapper doesn’t take much. His lips are firmly planted on Obama’s ass most of the time. He wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped him in the face (would make my day to get close enough to deck his ass).


16 posted on 05/14/2013 6:37:18 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: ClearCase_guy

Obama is quite literally the stupidest president in American history.


17 posted on 05/14/2013 6:39:29 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Nachum

In 1992, Tapper served as a campaign press secretary for Democratic congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (PA-13) (Chelsey Clinton’s Mother-in-law) and later served as her congressional press secretary.

Tapper then worked for Washington, D.C. public relations firm, Powell Tate, run by Democrat Jody Powell and Republican Sheila Tate.

He also worked briefly for Handgun Control Inc. (now the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence) in 1997.


18 posted on 05/14/2013 6:41:57 PM PDT by kcvl
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Tapper. One of the worst career moves ever. Right up there with Olbermann thinking he could transition from modestly successful jocksniffer to angry pundit.


19 posted on 05/14/2013 6:42:29 PM PDT by clintonh8r ("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
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“Obama is quite literally the stupidest president in American history.”

And the laziest! He doesn’t do a damned thing but play, vacation & campaign. He is still the community organizer he always was and always will be.


20 posted on 05/14/2013 6:44:12 PM PDT by kcvl
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