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Why the new Benghazi emails aren't a smoking gun (The Rhodes brothers on deep spin cycle)
CBS News ^ | May 1, 2014 | John Dickerson

Posted on 05/01/2014 9:37:37 AM PDT by Rennes Templar

Has the Benghazi "smoking gun" been found? Some White House critics believe that new documents wrestled from the White House by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, prove that the Obama administration concocted a cover-up: Political advisers pushed a false story that the murder of four Americans grew out of a protest against an anti-Islamic video in order to hide a policy failure that might hurt the president in an election year. The documents clearly show that the White House pushed the video story, but there's also proof that the White House believed the story they were pushing.

~snip~

It may now be laughable for anyone to suggest that the Libyan attack was spontaneous, but that's a question for the CIA, which made spontaneity its first and most durable claim that weekend. An intelligence failure is a different thing than a lie, and it should lead to a different set of questions about the underlying policy and skills of administration officials to accurately understand the world. You could also ask whether it's possible to make good policy when engaged in one-foot-in and one-foot-out operations like the U.S. attack on Libya. But those are policy questions, not cover-up questions.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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To: Rennes Templar
An intelligence failure is a different thing than a lie. When did this change? Because during the Bush years, an intelligence failure was definitely called a lie.
21 posted on 05/01/2014 10:18:56 AM PDT by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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To: Rennes Templar
Two Brothers at Center of Benghazi Controversy: One Runs CBS News, the Other Is Obama’s Adviser

...Sharyl Attkisson, a former CBS News investigative reporter, about the Benghazi disclosure and Rhodes brothers. Attkisson revealed that she sought the same Ben Rhodes document that Judicial Watch eventually obtained. CBS News, however, would not take the matter to court.

“CBS wasn’t willing to file a [Freedom of Information Act] lawsuit when I was there to try to get some of these documents,” Attkisson explained

22 posted on 05/01/2014 10:18:56 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: blackdog

A bit O/T, but I predict that Carney will end up at CBS, if Rhodes is still there.


23 posted on 05/01/2014 10:20:38 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: kcvl

Is he a reincarnated Hilter SS Lt. or what?


24 posted on 05/01/2014 10:23:03 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: Rennes Templar

Oh, so the Communist Broadcasting System supports this White House? Who’d a thunk it?

The fact is, yesterday’s revelation was something most of us already knew. No surprise, but important to now have it so clearly documented.

The Obama White House was the entity that told Rice to go out and lie, and to ensure that they did not emphasize in the least a failure of the Obama Administration or State Department in not protecting the US Ambassador or this nations true interests.

Obama did this for two reasons:

1) He was trying to get re-elected on the miserably failed and untruthful premise that he had defeated Al Queda and terrorism. They could not allow the truth of n Al QUeda linked terror attack to be published and talked about during the campaign. As with Obama Care, his promises and words were lies and his election was a complete fruad.

2) Becauser the truth behind why the attack occurred by those terrorists in Benghazi was ALL wrapped up in an illegal, treacherous, and traitorus arms running scheme involving terrorists. The Obama adminstration was helping arm Al Queda operatives in the war in Syria and doing it from stockpiles in Libya. And he was using the Muslim Brotherhood to make it happen...the same guys he supported in Egypt, who are now being jailed and executed by the Egyptian people.

That’s the ugly truth and when that deal went bad, the tangos attacked and killed the Ambassador and wanted to kill everyone there and over at the Annex. But a few brave American fought back and prevented that.

Obama, and all of the people direclty involved in this, including Hillary, need to all be removed from whatever office forthwith and then criminally tried for thier parts in the Benghazi coverup and brought to Justice. They need to go to prison for a long, long time.

That’s the truth, and what ought to happen.

Walling Al Queda in Benghazi
http://www.jeffhead.com/walkingalquida.htm


25 posted on 05/01/2014 10:24:26 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Rennes Templar

From CBS. You have to pay for this kind of ass-kissing. The media are just paid Democrat liars.


26 posted on 05/01/2014 10:24:41 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: kcvl

“CBS Political News Director John Dickerson “

Looks like a nazi.


27 posted on 05/01/2014 10:27:57 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: Rennes Templar

I am amazed just how stupid the administration believes we are. Well, obviously the 51% are complete morons and voted for this skidmark but. Who would believe an attack on Americans on the anniversary of the 9-11-01 attacks was somehow NOT related to the anniversary? What idiocy.


28 posted on 05/01/2014 10:29:50 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Rennes Templar

The Rhodes boys-—putting the “BS “ in CBS.


29 posted on 05/01/2014 10:34:31 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Rennes Templar

When is nixon gonna get an apology for the watergate tapes?


30 posted on 05/01/2014 10:35:36 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG
So they are trying to point blame at the CIA?????

Yes, they have done this all along even though the CIA did NOT come up with the video idea.

And though Carney said over and over again a year ago that he White House had NOTHING to do with the talking points we can now see this was a blatant lie.

31 posted on 05/01/2014 10:37:09 AM PDT by what's up (su)
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To: Rennes Templar

This memo had been withheld from information that had been requested by Republican congressmen in May.

There is NOTHING in this memo that contains sensitive information.

This is clear evidence of obstruction by the White House. And there is nothing that CBS can make-up to cover that aspect of the issue.


32 posted on 05/01/2014 10:53:46 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Rennes Templar

Well at least the name fits ... See BS


33 posted on 05/01/2014 10:57:16 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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MediaGate
34 posted on 05/01/2014 10:59:08 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Rennes Templar
January 25, 2012 --United Nations General Assembly

There are no words that excuse the killing of innocents. There is no video that justifies an attack on an Embassy. There is no slander that provides an excuse for people to burn a restaurant in Lebanon, or destroy a school in Tunis, or cause death and destruction in Pakistan.

-Barack Hussein Obama-

35 posted on 05/01/2014 1:01:59 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

September 25, 2012


36 posted on 05/01/2014 1:03:03 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Rennes Templar

But when bush relies on the CIA to invade Iraq, that is a lie... in their own words and definitions... Plame scandal?


37 posted on 05/01/2014 2:19:23 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: GraceG

Note that we never denied a CIA misreport absolved from a lie , THEY ADMITED during the BUSH YEARS THAT A CIA REPORT WAS NOT ENOUGH TO ABSOLVE a lie like responsibility on Iraq invasion.

By their own Lois Lerner like admissions and definitions they are guilty.


38 posted on 05/01/2014 2:26:54 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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MSM complicity.


39 posted on 05/01/2014 4:25:14 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Rennes Templar
An intelligence failure is a different thing than a lie...

But the WH and the State Department blaming the attack on an internet video is not an "intelligence failure", it's a lie.

Why do I get the impression that this author would not be so forgiving if the President was a Republican?

40 posted on 05/04/2014 4:54:13 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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