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".
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Thou hast said it. Our job, as I see it, is to make the exercise of tyranny both expensive and fatal to its practitioners.
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.
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
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.
absolutely.
“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.
Issa’a = Issa’s
ans = and
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?
Where’s Brennan now, it smells like him.
(see passports)
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?
“We can’t keep calling this spin.”
It was a direct lie to get The Great Deceiver re-elected plain and simple.
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.
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.
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