[upchuck]

A timeline from, believe it or not, ABC News, showing very clearly the edits made to the talking points.

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Benghazi%20Talking%20Points%20Timeline.pdf

“Stylistic changes” my ass!!

[phockthis]

sfl

[Enterprise]

"Now Jonathan Karl reports there were a dozen differing versions of the Benghazi talking points which show extensive editing "as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA" to the "final version" written entirely by Mr. Magoo. "

Oh JohnHuang2, you've done it again!

[Travis McGee]

Incompetence is only their fallback defense.

[SumProVita]

“Benghazi won’t be dropping into any memory hole yet — in fact, this is just the warm-up act.”

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May this be so.

AND...may it inspire some to take another look at Fast and Furious.

[randita]

I was waiting to read what the WP and NYT would put out today because I knew it would be word for word pablum of what they were fed yesterday at the super secret press briefing.

This is the newest meme: It was a turf war between the CIA and State. The CIA report was accurate, but State couldn’t reveal the information about al Queda involvement because it would imperil the investigation.

So, you see it wasn’t political at all. State was doing its darndest to make sure the bad guys didn’t know we were on to them. Some hard hitting investigation it’s been, since 8 months later we just got ultra grainy photos of men seen at the attack who “might” have been involved.

Okay, say we buy that this was a turf war. If that’s all it was, they could have gotten away with releasing very minimal information-more info would be released as the investigation continues.

Then why the video story? No mention in the WP article of the video. If accuracy was of utmost importance early on in the investigation, why create a scenario so totally divorced from reality?

Why the overkill with the video?

[Grampa Dave]

— Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jan. 23, 2013:

“I wasn’t involved in the talking points process.... As I understand it, as I’ve been told, it was a typical interagency process where staff, including from the State Department, all participated, to try to come up with whatever was going to be made publicly available, and it was an intelligence product.”

“With all due respect,the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?”—Hillary Clinton

[Vaduz]

Obama find out there are other departments in government and control isn’t 100%.

[MHGinTN]

Still in top form I see! Great piece John. Love the sarcastic jibes. Mr Magoo indeed!