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CBS News President David Rhodes (Inadvertntly) Exposes Obama’s Benghazi Lie (day after Benghzi)
Red State ^ | May 6th, 2014 | streiff

Posted on 05/06/2014 1:34:38 PM PDT by xzins

Every day seems to bring another revelation that highlights the duplicity of the Obama administration in reporting to the nation on what went wrong in Benghazi.

As we’ve already documented, the talking points for Susan Rice’s serial prevarications on the Sunday morning shows on September 16, 2012 were coordinated by Ben Rhodes. From what we know now, there was at no point at which anyone in the US government thought the attack on the Benghazi consulate was caused by a the internet video Innocence of Muslims. To the contrary, immediately everyone knew it was a planned and coordinated attack.

Regardless of the fact, the Ben Rhodes email establishes the lie about the internet video as the main theme of all government responses and Jay Carney persists in saying this memo reflected their best information at the time.

In a story from Breitbart.com, we have better insights into what the administration knew, and, to quote someone famous, when they knew it.

On September 12, 2012, the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce had a meeting. The keynote speaker was scheduled to be CBS Evening News anchor, Scott Pelley. Pelley, as it turned out, could not make the engagement and was replaced by CBS News president David Rhodes. By coincidence, David’s brother, Ben, was at that very moment cobbling together the guiding lie for the administration. (This, of course, goes a long way towards explaining why CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson found little interest in her investigative pieces on the Obama administration.)

Rhodes gives and address and at 25:00 the first question is asked, it concerns the elections. At 25:26 Rhodes segues to how the Benghazi attack may affect campaign news coverage.

“Now we don’t think that’s going to last, as far as it being about the people we lost and the unfolding situation which is pretty remarkable in our life time. Our government thinks that, you know, there’s a really good chance this was not just a spontaneous mob reaction to what some thought was an offensive film but actually a coordinated effort timed to the 9/11 anniversary.”

Who do we think told Rhodes what the government was thinking? My bet is on the guy who was writing the memo blaming a “spontaneous mob reaction.” Regardless it demonstrates that on the day after the attack the dominant theory was that the attack was a coordinated assault timed to commemorate 9/11. In other words, the truth.

As this story unfolds we will find several moving parts:

1. Hillary Clinton was involved in turning down Ambassador Chris Stevens’ request for more security for our diplomatic facilities in Libya.

2. The extra security was declined because it was essential for the Administrations’s narrative that Libya be seen as being secure.

3. When the crap hit the fan on September 11, Hillary recognized the danger a coordinated al Qaeda attack presented to Obama’s re-election and the danger it represented to her 2016 presidential ambitions.

4. She resorted to her best friend to save her: THE BIG LIE.

5. The press release issued by the State Department around 11pm EDT on September 11 locked in the story of the internet video even though Hillary knew at that time it was a lie.

6. During the week leading up to Susan Rice’s television appearances on September 16, Ben Rhodes, with the assistance of Jay Carney, David Plouffe, and others, drafted a set of talking points which were patently false. The purpose being to freeze interest in investigating Benghazi until after the election in less than two months.

Hopefully, Trey Gowdy will provide Hillary Clinton with the answer to the question she asked of the Congress:


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghaziemails; benrhodes; davidrhodes; davidrhodesspeech; obama
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(David Rhodes, president of CBS, is brother of Ben Rhodes, presidential advisor who wrote a damning Benghazi email just revealed by Judicial Watch)

On September 12, 2012, the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce had a meeting. The keynote speaker was ...CBS News president David Rhodes. (and says at one point the day AFTER the killing of the Benghazi 4:)

...Our government thinks that... this was not just a spontaneous mob reaction to what some thought was an offensive film but actually a coordinated effort timed to the 9/11 anniversary.”

1 posted on 05/06/2014 1:34:38 PM PDT by xzins
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(David Rhodes, president of CBS, is brother of Ben Rhodes, presidential advisor who wrote a damning Benghazi email just revealed by Judicial Watch)

On September 12, 2012, the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce had a meeting. The keynote speaker was ...CBS News president David Rhodes. (and says at one point the day AFTER the killing of the Benghazi 4:)

...Our government thinks that... this was not just a spontaneous mob reaction to what some thought was an offensive film but actually a coordinated effort timed to the 9/11 anniversary.”

2 posted on 05/06/2014 1:35:40 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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The brother of Ben Rhodes, the author of the smoking-gun memo. No media bias there, huh?

That’s why Sharyl Atkisson no longer works there.


3 posted on 05/06/2014 1:36:10 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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New Evidence Links U.S. Federal Government to FILMMAKER behind Benghazi Fiasco (Shocking)

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Montagraph put up a new video on May 1st. It is basically a refresher of his original findings of the connection between Stanley Inc., a State Dept. subcontractor, to the Innocence of Muslims video. He also shows when and by whom the name was changed.

BUSTED Once And For All

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Here is a video by another Vlogger who demonstrates how Montagraph traced Innocence of Muslims to Stanley Inc. through the meta-data.

Benghazi's Smoking Gun


4 posted on 05/06/2014 1:38:30 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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5 posted on 05/06/2014 1:40:30 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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Do not leave out the Beth Jones email the day after the attack to the Libya Ambassador!

The email is entitled “Libya update from Beth Jones. ” Jones was then-Assistant Secretary of State to Hillary Clinton. According to the email, Jones spoke to Libya’s Ambassador at 9:45am on Sept. 12, 2012 following the attacks.

“When [the Libyan Ambassador] said his government suspected that former Qaddafi regime elements carried out the attacks, I told him the group that conducted the attacks—Ansar Al Sharia—is affiliated with Islamic extremists,” Jones reports in the email.

6 posted on 05/06/2014 1:40:55 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TBP

If David Rhodes knew the day after from his brother, then the major media participated in an orchestrated disinformation campaign to intentionally propagandize the nation.


7 posted on 05/06/2014 1:41:46 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

“I believe you can be considered an honest person and lie about any number of things.” — Dan Rather, then of CBS, to Bill O’Reilly


8 posted on 05/06/2014 1:44:42 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TexasCajun

It is obvious that the media and the administration ran a propaganda operation against the people of the nation.

I didn’t care for Mitt Romney, but it obviously hurt him. An administration and an arm-in-arm media would also coordinate debate questions, and explain Candy Crowley standing in for Obama to debate Mitt Romney over Benghazi.


9 posted on 05/06/2014 1:45:56 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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The protests and attack in Cairo (or anywhere in the world) weren't about that stupid 'video' either.

Brian Lilley: The MSM is lying about the muslim riots
Interviews on the streets of Cairo. 'Video' had nothing to do with protests and attack.

"Blame it on the Video" was a Fraud for the Cairo Rioting, Too

10 posted on 05/06/2014 1:46:20 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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11 posted on 05/06/2014 1:46:57 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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It’s not the lie.

It’s what the lie covers up.

0bama was shipping weapons from Libya to AL QAEDA IN SYRIA.

That’s what 30+ CIA guys were doing in Benghazi.

Supplying our enemies who had been killing our boys in Iraq just months earlier.


12 posted on 05/06/2014 1:49:06 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: xzins

The entire democrat party will lie cheat and steal to protect the big guy. Not much chance of him resigning in disgrace when he is forced to admit that he willingly allowed Americans to get raped and murdered, rather than annoy his true buddies.

hillary, however, is expendable. If they have to, they’ll throw hillary to the wolves and let her take the blame.

This is real big. The dems know it and the media is doing everything it can to stop it from becoming a big deal.

The truth, if revealed, would show that the big guy loves bearded savages more than Americans, and he deliberately took no action to protect the Americans, so as not to annoy his true love: the screaming bearded savages.

Plan of action: make it a big deal. Contact news organizations about Benghazi. Talk about it to friends. Get bumper stickers.


13 posted on 05/06/2014 1:54:14 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: xzins

The thing that bothers me the most is these bastards maintained the lie while receiving the dead bodies they never lifted a finger to help to present to their familes....

I can hardly imagine what a cold, calculating, heartless, soulless bastards these people are...

How they sleep at night is beyond my comprehension....


14 posted on 05/06/2014 1:57:58 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: xzins

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3150768/posts

How Hillary set up the video lie.


15 posted on 05/06/2014 1:59:58 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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My memory is foggy. Wasn’t there a statement released by the American Embassy in Egypt which mentioned the video but was quickly pulled?Did anyone get a screen shot?


16 posted on 05/06/2014 2:02:18 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights; TigersEye

My question answered by T’sE in 10. Should have kept reading!


17 posted on 05/06/2014 2:08:02 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Talisker

18 posted on 05/06/2014 2:09:28 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: TigersEye

Thanks for finding that. VERY important piece of the puzzle!


19 posted on 05/06/2014 2:16:29 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: TigersEye
Were they not rioting to free the Blind Sheik?

...thus the kidnapping/exchange theory?

20 posted on 05/06/2014 2:20:50 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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