The Benghazi Talking Points

The Weekly Standard (advance article from 5/13 issue) ^ | 05/02/2013 (online) | STEVEN F. HAYES

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults. The Weekly Standard has obtained a timeline briefed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence detailing the heavy substantive revisions made to the CIA’s talking points,...

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

As intelligence officials pieced together the puzzle of events unfolding in Libya, they concluded even before the assaults had ended that al Qaeda-linked terrorists were involved. Senior administration officials, however, sought to obscure the emerging picture and downplay the significance of attacks that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The frantic process that produced the changes to the talking points took place over a 24-hour period just one day before Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, made her now-famous appearances on the Sunday television talk shows. The discussions involved senior officials from the State Department, the National Security Council, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the White House.

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... it is clear that senior administration officials engaged in a wholesale rewriting of intelligence assessments about Benghazi in order to mislead the public.

top Obama administration officials were told even as the fighting was taking place that U.S. diplomats and intelligence operatives were likely being attacked by al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists.

...eyewitnesses confirmed the participation of Islamic militants and made clear that U.S. facilities in Benghazi had come under terrorist attack. It was this fact, along with several others, that top Obama officials would work so hard to obscure.

More at link...

[I want the USA back]

It’s really quite clear. Someone is using the full power of his office to obstruct justice and to give favors to a group that hates this country.
That person must be sent back to his first job as Chicago street thug.

[Benjamin Dover]

And Nixon resigned because.....? Arrogate

[Dick Bachert]

[Don Corleone]

Even Hans Christian Anderson couldn’t compete with our administration when it comes to making up fairy tales.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting this....got some discussion on the Fox news pecial Report Round table.

[thoolou]

Thread won already... Hats off.

[don-o]

We have been beat down so long and so low....Lord God have mercy on us and let this thing grow legs.

[Marine_Uncle]

From earlier post: The Benghazi Talking Points.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Glad someone appreciates it. I thought this would be all over the place. I guess I should have clicked on “Breaking News.”

[MestaMachine]

Back to the Future.

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