Benghazi scandal tied to White House

[4-2-7]

Benghazi scandal tied to White House

[The documents] include a newly declassified e-mail showing then-White House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodes and other Obama administration public relations officials attempting to orchestrate a campaign to “reinforce” President Obama and to portray the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being “rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.” Other documents show that State Department officials initially described the incident as an “attack” and possible kidnap attempt.

The Judicial Watch documents confirm that CIA talking points, that were prepared for Congress and may have been used by Rice on “Face the Nation” and four additional Sunday talk shows on September 16, had been heavily edited by then-CIA deputy director Mike Morell. According to one email:

The e-mails were exchanged at a time when the State Department and CIA already knew that the video was not at issue and that this was a staged attack of some type. Former United Nations spokesman Richard Grenell who was briefly part of the Mitt Romney presidential team told Right Turn, “The e-mail from Ben Rhodes to a bunch of political appointees at the White House proves that there was a scramble inside Obama’s inner circle to protect him from the fallout of a U.S. Ambassador being killed on the anniversary of 9/11 and a few short weeks from his reelection.” He pointedly added: “ It’s time for real journalists to confront the President. It’s clear now that he and his team have not been truthful with the American people.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...o-white-house/

[4-2-7]

Amazing the MSM is not covering this story. Miss quote they are covering it up hush hush maybe it will go away,NOT

We'll give it a week and then it will get so big they can't avoid it.

So Fox & WP plus independent website is about all thats covering it.

[Tom Joad]

[4-2-7]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Thats intelligent, but expected from the likes.

[Ike Bana]

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz.......

One can only hope we'll still be hearing about Benghazi in the fall of 2016. Here's your ass 5 below...how's that tasting once again.

The Benghazi embassy was primarily a CIA station. Framing it as an embassy full of timid, harmless, bureaucrat paper pushers is bullshit.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by 4-2-7

Amazing the MSM is not covering this story. Miss quote they are covering it up hush hush maybe it will go away,NOT

We'll give it a week and then it will get so big they can't avoid it.

So Fox & WP plus independent website is about all thats covering it.

You'r'e really holding up FOX as a model of open and balanced reporting???

Here's their own guy, Howard Kurtz, ripping them a new one for their dead silence on Bundy's racist ranting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySQytwl5lw

Pot/kettle 5 below.

[donquixote99]

Fox is a propaganda apparatus for right wing interests. Period.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Fox is a propaganda apparatus for right wing interests. Period.

As is MSNBC for left wing interests. The day they gave Al Sharpton a job that was it for me. And that's my point with 5 below. MSNBC and FOXNEWS are just opposite sides of the same coin.

[Dondilion]

The ambassador was too dumb or too cocky. That has nothing to do with policy.

The Repugs through fox are just beating a tired horse.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

The ambassador was too dumb or too cocky. That has nothing to do with policy.

The Repugs through fox are just beating a tired horse.

Absolutely. Morever, as a person who has worked with DoD, State and several intelligence agencies here and abroad (as has my son, FWIW), one is completely delusional if they think that there is perfect (or even good) communications and cooperation between State, DoD and the CIA. This was simply a case of people taking calculated risks in a dangerous and messy environment and getting bit in the @ss for it. No more, no less.