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(CBS) Sources: DNI cut "al Qaeda" reference from Benghazi talking points, CIA, FBI signed off
CBS News ^ | November 20, 2012

Posted on 11/20/2012 7:03:52 AM PST by maggief

(CBS News) WASHINGTON - CBS News has learned that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) cut specific references to "al Qaeda" and "terrorism" from the unclassified talking points given to Amassador Susan Rice on the Benghazi consulate attack - with the agreement of the CIA and FBI. The White House or State Department did not make those changes.

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However, an intelligence source tells CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan the links to al Qaeda were deemed too "tenuous" to make public, because there was not strong confidence in the person providing the intelligence. CIA Director David Petraeus, however, told Congress he agreed to release the information -- the reference to al Qaeda -- in an early draft of the talking points, which were also distributed to select lawmakers.

"The intelligence community assessed from the very beginning that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack." DNI spokesman Shawn Turner tells CBS News. That information was shared at a classified level -- which Rice, as a member of President Obama's cabinet, would have been privy to.

An intelligence source says the talking points were passed from the CIA to the DNI, where the substantive edits were made, and then to FBI, which made more edits as part of "standard procedure".

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; benghazi; benghaziwh; clapper; dni; jamesclapper; jamesrclapper; jimclapper; petraeus
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To: Covenantor

Thou hast said it. Our job, as I see it, is to make the exercise of tyranny both expensive and fatal to its practitioners.


41 posted on 11/20/2012 8:54:03 AM PST by Noumenon (As long as you have a rifle, you STILL have a vote.)
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To: maggief
CBS News has learned that ...

CBS didn't 'learn' from the air - or from old fashioned digging - they 'learned that' from a democrat operative who called them up on the phone and told them. CBS does the equivalent of rewriting Press Releases from the White House. There is absolutely NO REASON to trust them.

42 posted on 11/20/2012 8:56:11 AM PST by GOPJ (The economy is so bad MSNBC had to lay off 300 Obama spokesmen - Leno)
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To: Noumenon
Good afternoon.

Our job, as I see it, is to make the exercise of tyranny both expensive and fatal to its practitioners.

That would make a great tag line.

5.56mm

43 posted on 11/20/2012 9:06:04 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: V_TWIN
“CBS Sources”

Sorry, I’ll wait for a more trusted source.

CBS commits random acts of journalism on occasion. I believe they're the major org with the most (correct) coverage of Fast & Furious due to the work of one of their reporters.

44 posted on 11/20/2012 9:10:07 AM PST by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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To: maggief
Today's squirrel chase....
45 posted on 11/20/2012 9:10:21 AM PST by PogySailor (Barack Obama just won the right to be the Captain of the Titanic)
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To: annieokie

absolutely.


46 posted on 11/20/2012 9:17:55 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: RedEyeJack

“The MSM doesn’t care and no elected Democrats care so no one will be held responsible for these lies either.”

We will probably be entertained with more of Issa’a kabuki theater hearings like Fast ans Furious.

Clapper could get tossed, but no one at the top (who are the ones really responsible) will be held accountable, like you said.


47 posted on 11/20/2012 9:47:10 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: MikeSteelBe

Issa’a = Issa’s

ans = and


48 posted on 11/20/2012 9:50:22 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: CharlesThe Hammer

4. Who turned down the Ambassador’s request for more security?
5. Who turned down the request for a DC-3?
6. Who pulled the security team they did have?


49 posted on 11/20/2012 11:13:16 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Where’s Brennan now, it smells like him.

(see passports)


50 posted on 11/20/2012 11:57:28 AM PST by AliVeritas (God's will be done. Pray, Pray, Pray, Penance, Penance, Penance.)
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To: maggief

At this point...I’m ready to throw up my hands and ask who the heck cares....we will figure out who said what, when later.... the attack happened regardless...even IF it were really because of some stinking video....those who could have helped were told to stand down...no help was given....WHY?


51 posted on 11/20/2012 7:13:45 PM PST by Kimberly GG ("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote!)
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To: MestaMachine

“We can’t keep calling this spin.”

It was a direct lie to get The Great Deceiver re-elected plain and simple.


52 posted on 11/20/2012 9:33:59 PM PST by garjog (Heroes Died. Obama Lied.)
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To: garjog

In a righteous world where justice is done, the order of things wrong be made right, it would read like this:
obama denied, Americans died, obama lied, obama fried.


53 posted on 11/20/2012 10:54:19 PM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: maggief
CIA documents supported Susan Rice’s description of Benghazi attacks

from 10/19/2012. I missed this remark

...The senior intelligence official said the analysts’ judgment was based in part on monitoring of some of the Benghazi attackers, which showed they had been watching the Cairo protests live on television and talking about them before they assaulted the consulate. ...

You have to be kidding me. Ignatius actually reported the claim that our intelligence was monitoring what the terrorists were watching on TV?

No followup question? Like, mmmmm, thinking, thinking, if we saw the "Benghazi attackers" (aka al Qaeda terrorists) watching the Cairo protests live and heard their conversations, then why the hell was no one warned at the consulate?

MSM can spin the bullshit.

54 posted on 11/21/2012 11:50:50 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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