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White House says did not heavily edit talking points on Benghazi
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Posted on 11/17/2012 9:03:22 AM PST by Sub-Driver

White House says did not heavily edit talking points on Benghazi

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE | Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:25am EST

(Reuters) - The White House did not heavily alter talking points about the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, an official said on Saturday.

"If there were adjustments made to them within the intelligence community, that's common, and that's something they would have done themselves," Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser, told reporters. "The only edit ... made by the White House was the factual edit as to how to refer to the facility."

After a closed-door hearing with former CIA Director David Petraeus on Friday, Republican Representative Peter King said that unclassified talking points prepared by the CIA for use by lawmakers about the September 11 attack where the U.S. ambassador to Libya was killed originally pointed specifically to al Qaeda involvement.

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To: Sub-Driver
This lickspittle Rhodes is absolutely correct.

The took out two words: AQ.

The put back one word: mob.

See, it was just a minor edit.

21 posted on 11/17/2012 9:18:41 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why is this boiling down to side show of talking points?

Was there a distress call?
Who decided not to respond to it?
Was there a “stand down” order?
Who issued it?
Role of White House?


22 posted on 11/17/2012 9:18:58 AM PST by shalom aleichem
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To: Sub-Driver

White House says did not heavily edit talking points on Benghazi

No, they edited it.
23 posted on 11/17/2012 9:23:08 AM PST by COBOL2Java (The GOP-e said "Beat a Marxist with a Liberal!" What a colossal blunder.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The old “if” word....
“If there were adjustments made to them within the intelligence community, that’s common, and that’s something they would have done themselves,”

Do you know then Ben, “if” adjustments were made, what they were, and by who?


24 posted on 11/17/2012 9:24:32 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: shalom aleichem

Because it’s been decided that our communications systems with our embassies and other facilities and their links to places like the WH Situation Room are “highly classified.”

We’re never going to get the truth unless somebody on the ground in Benghazi blows it all up by talking publicly. And so far, that hasn’t happened.


25 posted on 11/17/2012 9:24:42 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: Sub-Driver

they admitted that they edited the talking points memo - note edited the facility only is to give them plausible deniability - legalese for cya


26 posted on 11/17/2012 9:25:22 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: shalom aleichem
Why is this boiling down to side show of talking points? Was there a distress call? Who decided not to respond to it? Was there a “stand down” order? Who issued it? Role of White House?

It should be about both.

What you say and the AQ coverup.

27 posted on 11/17/2012 9:25:22 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: shalom aleichem

I agree. To even publicly discuss such a thing as “talking points” in reference to these deaths is offensive.


28 posted on 11/17/2012 9:25:39 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: Sub-Driver

They can edit lightly, take out two words and change the whole meaning.

Another smoke bomb released by the WH.


29 posted on 11/17/2012 9:26:55 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Sacajaweau
I figured they are getting a little too close to BO when the black caucus started screaming racism about Susan Rice. That means that Rice knows the answers and the answers lead straight to BO therefore it must be shut down and called racism so we can't get to the truth. I detest black, liberal women. I guess blacks are held to a lower standard than whites now.
30 posted on 11/17/2012 9:27:39 AM PST by dandiegirl
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To: Sub-Driver

Crazy - Reuters put an ellipis in the critical quote in the story.

How could *that* ever pass edit.


31 posted on 11/17/2012 9:33:23 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Sub-Driver

Always a way out for teflon Zero - “HEAVILY” is what the morons of America desire to hear. FOUR MORE YEARS OF NON-STOP LYING. Is the USA a laughing stock yet?


32 posted on 11/17/2012 9:35:19 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Badabing Badablonde

NO! Anyone that is intelligent does NOT believe one word that comes out of That PIT!

But there are a lot of Dumb Arses and they are called DEMORATS!Union Members!Greenies!and Enemies of Democracy and Freedom!


33 posted on 11/17/2012 9:35:30 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD SAVE OUR AMERICA from ALLAH and his Prophet, HUSSEIN OBAMA!!)
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To: Sub-Driver; annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; ...
The outrage in the REAL America is getting to the boiling point. This pressure cooker cannot be too far from exploding. This election and all that it entails cannot stand. obama has sown the whirlwind.

Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.


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34 posted on 11/17/2012 9:36:52 AM PST by MestaMachine (TREASON!!!!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Very nicely done!!


35 posted on 11/17/2012 9:37:12 AM PST by RWGinger (Simpl)
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To: dandiegirl
I'd guess that Rice didn't/doesn't know sh**. She's just a liason between the US and the UN. Have we heard from her at all since she's been at the UN??

But we have a missing character here...which no one is mentioning(that I know of)....Hillary.

I'd say Obama and she now have a deal....she'll shut up until she leaves...and then no promises. Bet she's all lawyered up royally.

36 posted on 11/17/2012 9:40:22 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

“our” president ......


37 posted on 11/17/2012 9:43:03 AM PST by malia
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To: Sacajaweau

“But we have a missing character here”..... she is on vacation.......


38 posted on 11/17/2012 9:44:59 AM PST by malia
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I disagree - the fact that there was a cover story and talking points is minor.

The real story is that Obama failed to properly protect the Americans in Benghazi.

US forces were ready, willing, and able to go to the rescue. Obama did not send them.

*That* is the biggest scandal of this event. (We may later find that Obama was running an illegal arms smuggling operation to Al Qaeda affiliates. If that were found to be true it rivals the fact that we know now. - Obama left 41 Americans to die in an attack by al qaeda. if not for the former SEALs at the annex, they would have all died. Those SEALs were even at one point (at least) ordered *NOT* to help.

What we know now is HUGE.

(hugh and series - take a shower, don’t let the moose bite you)


39 posted on 11/17/2012 9:45:04 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: FreeReign

O can skate on talking points controversy.

He can say well W “lied us into war” by exaggerating the intel on threat of potential terrorism and WMD and MY administration will honor its Nobel Peace Prize and err on the side of peace; not war.

I (O) also will not send my minority surrogate (Susan Rice) to lie to the UN like W’s house minority (Powell) did.

We (O) may lie to the American people, but we never even fib to the UN.


40 posted on 11/17/2012 9:47:49 AM PST by shalom aleichem
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