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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: maggief

“Office of the Director of National Intelligence”????? WHO?


21 posted on 11/20/2012 7:44:50 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Ronald_Magnus

They already got away with it.

We are going to pay the price for this. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but having accepted this and re-electing this man is going to be the end of America.


22 posted on 11/20/2012 7:46:32 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Don’t bet on it. During Nixon’s time, there were enough Democrats with integrity to advise him he needed to step down for the good of the country. Not the case now.

These days, as I’ve said before, for Democrats to bring down a fellow Democrat, no amount of evidence is sufficient. For them to bring down a Republican, no amount of evidence is required.


23 posted on 11/20/2012 7:47:35 AM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: petitfour
As for Clapper, duh! He is the one who told Petraeus to resign due to an extramarital affair

Yes, and there was a story the other day that Clapper and Petraeus had disagreements a few days before Petraeus' resignation over the CIA taking the blame.

Makes sense that Clapper was responsible for removing the info.

24 posted on 11/20/2012 7:51:45 AM PST by what's up
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To: william clark
Washington and Americans that followed him were living in much more dangerous times and were sacrificing everything for our future. I will NEVER give up or lay down... I will honor those great men with my loyalty to America as Founded. To do otherwise is just to lay down and surrender. I would rather die with my boots on.

LLS

25 posted on 11/20/2012 7:52:23 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (I AM JOHN GALT)
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To: william clark

Whitehouse Press= Sycophants.


26 posted on 11/20/2012 7:52:40 AM PST by DOGHEAD
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To: Old Retired Army Guy; MestaMachine

“”The intelligence community assessed from the very beginning that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack.” DNI spokesman Shawn Turner tells CBS News.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/office-of-the-director-of-national-intelligence-tries-to-explain-evolving-intelligence-on-benghazi/

Sep 28, 2012

First, Turner says, in the immediate aftermath of the attack, which resulted in the deaths of four Americans including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, “there was information that led us to assess that the attack began spontaneously following protests earlier that day at our embassy in Cairo. We provided that initial assessment to Executive Branch officials and members of Congress, who used that information to discuss the attack publicly and provide updates as they became available. Throughout our investigation we continued to emphasize that information gathered was preliminary and evolving.”

But intelligence came in that caused officials to revise their “initial assessment to reflect new information indicating that it was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by extremists,” Turner writes. “It remains unclear if any group or person exercised overall command and control of the attack, and if extremist group leaders directed their members to participate. However, we do assess that some of those involved were linked to groups affiliated with, or sympathetic to al-Qa’ida. We continue to make progress, but there remain many unanswered questions. As more information becomes available our analysis will continue to evolve and we will obtain a more complete understanding of the circumstances surrounding the terrorist attack.”


27 posted on 11/20/2012 7:53:10 AM PST by maggief
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

The DNI was created in 2004 because of concerns that the CIA hadn’t cooperated with other security agencies in the federal government prior to 9-11. The DNI is supposed to coordinate with the CIA, military, FBI, State and White House, but it means that the Director of the CIA no longer has a direct pipeline to the President. This is enabling the President to claim deniability because he can now blame the communication problems on the DNI, while letting the CIA claim that it did its job. But there is still no explanation as to why the DNI or CIA would let the White House and State spin the video explanation when there doesn’t appear to be any report from the CIA or DNI blaming the video.


28 posted on 11/20/2012 7:54:50 AM PST by littleharbour
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...

We can’t keep calling this spin. It has gone far beyond that. Spin is when you take a smidgeon of truth and garnish it. There is no truth in this.

Ping.


29 posted on 11/20/2012 7:57:09 AM PST by MestaMachine (TREASON!!!!)
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To: maggief
"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.

So in other words she was blatantly lying about the film (which we already knew).

30 posted on 11/20/2012 7:58:22 AM PST by what's up
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To: maggief
Even if this new improved version of events were to be believed and the term "al Qaeda" was removed, who then inserted the "spontaneous mob" lie?

That story was a complete fabrication. Who was the fabricator?

Also, who made the fatal decision to let the Ambassador and his men hang out to dry?

31 posted on 11/20/2012 8:05:22 AM PST by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: AAABEST
Also, who made the fatal decision to let the Ambassador and his men hang out to dry?

There you have it.

32 posted on 11/20/2012 8:12:01 AM PST by World'sGoneInsane (If you repeat a lie enough--it is not true--it is just propaganda.)
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To: maggief

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)>>>>>

That pos James Clapper runs it. He is beyond contempt and and obvious Obama stooge for years. He is inept, senile ,out of the loop. A figurehead

This story blaming him and his agency? Who knows. He is willing to become the fall guy.


33 posted on 11/20/2012 8:16:18 AM PST by dennisw ( The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: william clark; Noumenon
These days, as I've said before, for Democrats to bring down a fellow Democrat, no amount of evidence is sufficient. For them to bring down a Republican, no amount of evidence is required.

Just so. We are at the opening stages of civil war. Having demonized us the left will proceed to the next stage.

Nearly a century ago at the start of the Russian civil war and the beginning of the Red Terror, Martins Latsis, the senior official in the CHEKA, (Extraordinary Commission, or the first Soviet political police) was also the theoretician of the Red Terror, stated that Bolsheviks, "are not carrying out war against individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. We are not looking for evidence or witnesses to reveal deeds or words against the Soviet power. The first question we ask is to what class does he belong, what are his origins, upbringing, education or profession? These questions define the fate of the accused. This is the essence of the Red Terror."

The table has been set, increased oppressive regulations instituted by damn near every cabinet bureaucracy equipped with SWAT teams provide the grounds to ensnare any targeted citizenry.

It will happen sooner than anyone anticipates. Have doubts? Review history to see how fast it came to full and bloody bloom in eras without modern communications.

34 posted on 11/20/2012 8:22:41 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: maggief
To hell with the "who changed the CIA document". I want to know "Who Denied requests for help, in the previous months", "WHO gave the STAND DOWN order".....

IOW: WHO ORDERED THE DEATHS OF 4 DEAD AMERICANS?

That and nothing more is of interest to me. When is this going to be investigated??

Oh, wait a minute: could it be after the inaguration of the Supreme Leader??

35 posted on 11/20/2012 8:22:53 AM PST by annieokie
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To: Covenantor

Then of course, Latsis eventually faced the firing squad himself.


36 posted on 11/20/2012 8:30:54 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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37 posted on 11/20/2012 8:31:31 AM PST by Nachum (The List is off the Google blacklist- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: maggief
Wonderful! CBS has now become the “Benghazi Bob” of this entire debacle. Could their announcers even keep a straight face trying to pass this one off? If one is to believe this, then the Resident and his staff were completely in the dark even WHILE making crucial decisions and for days afterward due to some incompetent, nameless clown far down the food chain? Who just HAPPENED to know about a video clip nobody else had seen? The Obama administration is excused because somebody he hired can't accomplish their job? The buck stops with Obama no matter what. Hillary needs to resign in disgrace because she was responsible for safety and she FAILED to protect her people, even with numerous warnings. And RICE is GUILTY of either lying or else deceiving! It makes no difference; she has NO credibility and cannot continue in office, much less take Hillary's place. I smell the rot of treason, and it's the whole head of the rotten administration!
38 posted on 11/20/2012 8:36:46 AM PST by Missouri gal
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To: maggief

Two things...

First, four Americans are dead, including an ambassador and no one is being held responsible. There was time to intervene and nothing was done. Again, no one is being held responsible. For weeks leading up to the election the President and his principal secretaries lied to the public about what had happened and why. (We still don’t know why but we know it was not the film). The MSM doesn’t care and no elected Democrats care so no one will be held responsible for these lies either.

Second, nothing has been done about this atrocity. Hot air about bringing the killers to justice was spewed but it has been nothing but talk. So... How long will it be till these guys do it again? Will anyone be held responsible when they do it again?


39 posted on 11/20/2012 8:43:21 AM PST by RedEyeJack
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To: william clark
These days, as I’ve said before, for Democrats to bring down a fellow Democrat, no amount of evidence is sufficient. For them to bring down a Republican, no amount of evidence is required.

Outstanding post. I'm borrowing that! That's tagline/bumpersticker worthy!

Regards,

TS

40 posted on 11/20/2012 8:49:36 AM PST by The Shrew (www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
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