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A Benghazi Scandal That’s Already Been Revealed: The CIA Believed A Media Mistake
TIME ^ | May 8, 2014 | by Massimo Calabresi

Posted on 05/08/2014 4:52:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Here’s an unsolicited tip for Rep. Trey Gowdy: A smoking gun explanation for the Obama Administration’s use of false talking points has already been found. And the culprit is not a White House adviser or State Department bureaucrat. It’s the intelligence community’s reliance on the media.

It’s tucked inside the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on Benghazi, which reveals a key source of the bad intelligence that made it into Ambassador Susan Rice’s famous talking points: the media incorrectly reported that before the attack on Sept. 11, 2012 there were protests outside the U.S. facilities in Benghazi when there weren’t.

And the CIA believed those reports, resulting in talking points that were delivered to Ambassador Susan Rice

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benrhodes; bias; demagogicparty; jaycarney; journalism; libya; massimocalabresi; media; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; susanrice; time
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To: EQAndyBuzz

They can’t arrest the people identified as participating in the murder because if they get asked about the video they would have no idea what to say.


21 posted on 05/08/2014 5:27:23 PM PDT by Baynative (How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It wasn't a mistake it was a LIE

The CIA might have gotten it from the Media but the Media got it from Queen Putt the Sissy-Boy

22 posted on 05/08/2014 5:30:01 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nice Try A**holes...Not flying here!


23 posted on 05/08/2014 5:32:04 PM PDT by fedupjohn (America...Designed by Geniuses...Now inhabited by Idiots..Palin 2016...)
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To: bronxville
I read somewhere that the NY Times have someone on the scene.

IIRC, they did. But not at the CIA Weapons Exchange Facility where the Ambassador died.

They also had PROTESTS.

But not at that facility.

The protests were cover for the attack on the CIA facility.

The protests were going on in several locations in the Middle East, based on the video created and placed on the Internet by the State Department's CIA (not the normal CIA). They had a local imam stirring up the people by spreading word of this 'video'. It was all part of a plan, and all was going well until...

a couple of American Heroes decided to try and get the Ambassador and staff to safety by heading to the CIA facility. This put them into conflict with the terrorist group that was planning to decimate the CIA facility.

Hillary's CIA was selling to one group of terrorists, Obama was selling to the other (by selling I mean trading weapons for opium and heroin). When Hillary's crew got in trouble, he merely avoided giving CROSS BORDER APPROVAL. His side won. She had to resign.

You know the rest.

24 posted on 05/08/2014 5:38:25 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...the media incorrectly reported that before the attack on Sept. 11, 2012 there were protests outside the U.S. facilities in Benghazi when there weren’t.

And the media got that story from... The White House of course. So the CIA believed the lies the media got from the Obama Admin and that they already knew were a pack of lies. Sounds about right.

25 posted on 05/08/2014 5:45:10 PM PDT by eggman (End the Obama occupation of the White House!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not only circling the wagons but throwing the alphabets under the bus to protect Barry.

You don’t want to pick a fight with your own intel orgs by making them look bad..........


26 posted on 05/08/2014 5:47:17 PM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Here’s an unsolicited tip for Massimo. Aiding and abetting traitors makes you an accessory to treason. That Democrat money won’t mean much when the prison door clangs shut behind you.


27 posted on 05/08/2014 6:30:47 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"The media" did, hmm? Who? When? Perhaps we should ask the CIA that question. "What hack reporter's garbage did you go public with rather than your own intelligence reports?" I'm sure the CIA would love to answer that question.

Not even a good try. Nor is this the "show trial" Dana Milbank declared it. Four dead men demand answers.

28 posted on 05/08/2014 6:39:48 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Total BS!

Partisan Media Shills ping. Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
29 posted on 05/08/2014 6:53:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Except the intelligence agencies never said it was a video.


30 posted on 05/08/2014 7:17:37 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Billthedrill

...”Four dead men demand answers”...

Exactly.


31 posted on 05/08/2014 8:05:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Massimo Calabresi got the long knives out for Trey Gowdy... What Massimo afraid of?


32 posted on 05/08/2014 8:36:29 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Are we finally going to get a smidgen of truth? - - Freeper Veto!)
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...

Benghazi ping.

Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.


33 posted on 05/09/2014 6:13:59 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: advertising guy; Oldeconomybuyer

Totally B.S. from Time’s spin-doctors. Amb. Stevens said good by to his Turk colleague outside the so called Consulate and saw no demonstration just before it and he was attacked by terrorists. Hicks testified, under OATH, which Killary didn’t, about real time what really happened on the side, and he was demoted, hello!!!


34 posted on 05/09/2014 7:13:42 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: Feckless
The CIA might have gotten it from the Media but the Media got it from Queen Putt the Sissy-Boy

White House, media, it's all the same thing.

35 posted on 05/10/2014 5:46:21 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They have decided to target the CIA in this because in the very first set of CIA-prepared talking points for Congress there was reference to the fact that the CIA had given an advanced warning of the attacks. They do not want anyone to remember that and want to discredit the warnings if they do remember.


36 posted on 05/11/2014 11:30:03 AM PDT by Wendy44
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