Posted on 04/29/2014 10:31:55 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
Benghazi-Gate
Judicial Watch: Benghazi Documents Point to White House on Misleading Talking Points
Benghazi emails suggest White House aide involved in prepping Rice for 'video' explanation
Ben Rhodes at center of plan to whitewash White House on Benghazi
File on Benghazi-Gate
Which dept. do you think Rhodes was in?
I am absolutely shocked, whoda thunk it
Judicial Watch: Email ensuring ‘Obama looked good’ was post-Benghazi priority
Key communication chiefs at the White House waged an all-out strategy to rally behind President Obama and help him push the mantra that the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. facility in Benghazi were due to an Internet video — and not policy failure, a watchdog just revealed.
Key to the messaging: Making sure the president appeared strong in the face of adversity, the nonprofit Judicial Watch found, in a recently received FOIA request.
Judicial Watch found — after sifting through documents that were requested from the Department of State on June 21, 2013 — an email from Ben Rhodes, then-White House deputy strategic communications adviser, that showed he joined with others to devise a public relations campaign to “reinforce” Mr. Obama’s statements that an anti-Islam video spurred the attacks.
The main point of the White House team’s strategy was to paint the terrorist attack as being “rooted in an Internet video and not a failure of policy,” Judicial Watch said in an emailed release. Meanwhile, the State Department — at the same time that message was being shaped — initially considered the incident simply an “attack,” and perhaps even a kidnap try, the watchdog said.
The email from Mr. Rhodes, dated Sept. 14, 2012, read in part: “Goal: … To underscore that these protests are rooted in [an] Internet video and not a broader failure or policy.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/29/email-ensuring-obama-looked-good-was-post-benghazi/#ixzz30IlZSDTC
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“Better Wag The Dog in some European country to distract the low information voters.”
I’m betting they will try and reinforce the “spontaneous” lie.
I’m expecting some type of civil unrest followed by a terrorist attack and we will then be told the terrorist are so in tune with the news they picked up on the civil unrest and “spontaneously” planned the attack.
With Hairy Palm Reid calling Bundy supporters terrorist, the ratcheting up of claims of “racism” at every turn including Holder making claims of “racism” for the difference in the number of whites and blacks being arrested, the stage is being set for some type of civil unrest.
bkmrk
Benghazi Emails Show Blaming Video Was Effort to Protect, Re-Elect Obama
Emails sent by senior White House adviser Ben Rhodes to other top administration officials reveal an effort to insulate President Barack Obama from the attacks that killed four Americans.
Rhodes sent this email to top White House officials such as David Plouffe and Jay Carney just a day before National Security Adviser Susan Rice made her infamous Sunday news show appearances to discuss the attack.
The “goal,” according to these emails, was “to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure or policy.”
It’s well to remember at this point who Ben Rhodes is. According to the White House, he is assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for strategic communications and speechwriting. That sounds nice, but he has no career in the military or intelligence. Rhodes is a career partisan Democrat and Obama loyalist who was put on the National Security Council because he is a loyalist to the man. Not the nation. Or the facts on the ground in Libya or anywhere else. Rhodes’ loyalty belongs to Barack Obama.
He needs to be compelled to testify under oath about all this.
Email Shows Adviser Urged Rice to Blame Video for Benghazi Attack
Fox’s chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reported that the Sept. 14, 2012, email shows that White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes advised Rice to focus on a YouTube video as the cause of a spontaneous protest, though transcripts have since been revealed to show that senior defense officials had informed the administration on the night of the event that the assault was a terrorist attack.
Rhodes outlined a number of talking points for Rice, with the advice “to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/email-Susan-Rice-Benghazi-video/2014/04/29/id/568416#ixzz30IoIsO9z
Could you add me to your list?
I’m sure the AG will look into this, as soon as OJ finds the murderer.
Andrew C. McCarthy just sent this out on Twitter:
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/benghazi-emails-show-white-house-effort-to-protect-obama/
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To cover up the circumstances of the death of four brave Americans including a US Ambassador with a total lie fabricated to make Obama look good in the campaign is more than despicable. To make matters worse the murderers are still at large as the White House has swept the whole incident under the rug. Hillary’s “what difference does it make” will also come to haunt her.
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Bless her heart. I just hurt for her and am so dishusted she and other family members were lied to straight to their faces.
Also contained in the 41 pages of documents obtained by Judicial Watch is a Sep. 12, 2012 email from Payton Knopf, the former deputy spokesman at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
In this communication, Knopf informs Rice that senior officials had already dubbed the Benghazi attack as “complex” and planned in advance. Despite this information, Rice still insisted that attacks were “spontaneous.”
The newly released cache of emails also appear to confirm that the CIA altered its original talking points on the attacks in the following days.
Then-CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell is identified as the person who heavily edited the critical fact sheet.
“The first draft apparently seemed unsuitable … because they seemed to encourage the reader to infer incorrectly that the CIA had warned about a specific attack on our embassy,” states one email. “Morell noted that these points were not good and he had taken a heavy hand to editing them. He noted that he would be happy to work with [then deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton] Jake Sullivan and Rhodes to develop appropriate talking points.”
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/benghazi-emails-show-white-house-effort-to-protect-obama/
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