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One by one, skeptics are changing their minds. Mark Mardell, BBC Editor is one of them.
I remember listening to reports from the BBC and others at the time that did suggest the attack in Benghazi was a spontaneous reaction to a rather puerile anti-Islamic video.In the interests of full disclosure I have to say I have not in the past been persuaded that allegations of a cover-up were a big deal. It seemed to me a partisan attack based on very little.
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Judicial Watch: Benghazi Documents Point to White House on Misleading Talking Points From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: Judicial Watch: Benghazi Documents Point to White House on Misleading Talking Points.HT:Judicialwatch. (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch...
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State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland Deliberately Lied to Reporters About Benghazi Talking Points Today ABC News confirmed that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland raised specific objections to an original CIA draft...
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ABCNEWS: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together...
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As the world turns....against the Obama White House
One by one, skeptics are changing their minds. Mark Mardell, BBC Editor is one of them.
I don't expect a huge influx of particularly far left leaners to change their minds about Obama. Hopefully enough to make sure that Clinton doesn't have a chance in hell in becoming President.
After Benghazi revelations, heads will roll
There's new evidence, obtained by ABC, that the Obama administration did deliberately purge references to "terrorism" from accounts of the attack on the Benghazi diplomatic mission, which killed four people including the US ambassador to Libya.
Conservatives have long maintained that the administration deliberately suppressed the truth about the attacks.
This is the first hard evidence that the state department did ask for changes to the CIA's original assessment.
Specifically, they wanted references to previous warnings deleted and this sentence removed: "We do know that Islamic extremists with ties to al-Qa'ida participated in the attack."
There's little doubt in my mind that this will haunt Hillary Clinton if she decides to run for president, unless she executes some pretty fancy footwork.
State department spokesperson Victoria Nuland is directly implicated, and the fingerprints of senior White House aides Ben Rhodes and Jay Carney are there as well.
Black and whiteI remember listening to reports from the BBC and others at the time that did suggest the attack in Benghazi was a spontaneous reaction to a rather puerile anti-Islamic video.In the interests of full disclosure I have to say I have not in the past been persuaded that allegations of a cover-up were a big deal. It seemed to me a partisan attack based on very little.
I understand President Barack Obama's careful use of the word "terrorism" when it actually means something, rather than as a knee-jerk description of any violence by foreigners against Americans, often in order to justify a "war on terror".
But the evidence is there in black and white, unless we doubt the documents obtained by ABC, which I don't.
Mr Obama's critics are often not very clear what is behind their allegations. I presume they think that the White House wanted to avoid claims the murders were the result of terrorism because this would undermine his claim that al-Qaeda was seriously "degraded". There's also a vague sense he's "soft on terror".
Butt-guardingThe new documents contain two rationales for the changes in language. The first is that it would prejudice the FBI investigation.
Perhaps, but I am not at all persuaded.
The other reason given, old-fashioned butt-guarding, is more credible.
As Ms Nuland puts it, such a report "could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either?"
However you read the motives, the state department and apparently the White House did get the CIA to change its story.
This is now very serious, and I suspect heads will roll. The White House will be on the defensive for a while.
- Obama And Hillary Tried To Blame Benghazi On "god Vs. Allah" Video Before "innocence Of Muslims"
From World Net Daily: One of the first moves the Obama administration made after the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. special mission at Benghazi, Libya, was to contact YouTube in an apparent attempt to blame the attack on an obscure “Pastor...
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Judicial Watch: Benghazi Documents Point to White House on Misleading Talking Points From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: Judicial Watch: Benghazi Documents Point to White House on Misleading Talking Points.HT:Judicialwatch. (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch...
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State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland Deliberately Lied to Reporters About Benghazi Talking Points Today ABC News confirmed that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland raised specific objections to an original CIA draft...
-
ABCNEWS: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together...
- Senate Report Confirms Obama Lied When He Linked Benghazi To Mohammed Film On September 18th
(CNSNews.com) – Three days after CIA and State Department eyewitnesses reported on Sept. 15 that there had been no protest in Benghazi, Libya, before terrorists attacked the U.S. diplomatic mission and a CIA facility there on Sept. 11, President...