White House to Susan Rice: Blame the Video for Benghazi Attack
Blame the video, not the president’s foreign policy. That was the White House’s advice to Susan Rice as she prepared to appear on Sunday morning talk shows after the terrorist attack in Benghazi.
A newly released email collected by Judicial Watch in response to a FOIA request shows the White House pushed Ambassador Susan Rice to promote the idea that an internet video mocking Islam, not President Obama’s foreign policy, was responsible for attacks in the Middle East, including the one in Benghazi.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/04/29/white-house-to-amb-rice-blame-the-video/
On the Saturday prior to Rice’s appearance, the White House organized a conference call with a dozen press people including Jay Carney, David Plouffe, and Dan Pfeiffer. The purpose of the call was to prepare Rice for her appearance on all of the Sunday shows the following morning. In preparation for the conference call, White House adviser Ben Rhodes sent out a list of talking points Friday night with the subject “RE: PREP CALL with Susan: Saturday at 4:00 pm ET.”
The document opens with a section labeled “Goals” followed by four bullet points. These are not talking points per se, rather they are concepts the White House hoped Rice would communicate on television. Point one is “to convey that the United States is doing everything that we can to protect our people and facilities abroad.”
Point two reads, “To underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.” Notice that this was framed as part of an either-or response. Either this was a failure of policy or it was the result of an internet video; the White House wanted Rice to make clear it was definitely the video that was to blame.
Why doesn’t Jordan bring up that even at the late date when the bodies came back, she was spewing the lies about the video to the families even then? C’mon, Jordan!
BTTT!