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Benghazi Talking Points: A Lie Hillary Agreed Upon
Investor's Business Daily ^ | May 10, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 05/10/2013 5:03:19 PM PDT by raptor22

Libya: At least a dozen rewrites of the Benghazi talking points were made, with all references to al-Qaida and prior attacks removed at the direction of the secretary of state's office.

The astonishing thing about the administration's Benghazi cover-up is that it actually thought it could get away with it. But each lie has been successfully peeled away, from the protest that never happened, to the irrelevant filmmaker who was blamed, to the intelligence community whose talking points were used as a cover for incompetence and malfeasance.

Now White House and State Department emails obtained by ABC News, some first published by the Weekly Standard, show that the intelligence community, led by the CIA, told the truth about terrorist involvement in the Benghazi attacks and prior warnings in its original talking points draft. It was the White House and the State Department that lied and had them altered.

"Those talking points originated from the intelligence community. They reflect the IC's best assessments of what they thought had happened," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters last Nov. 28. "The White House and the State Department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two institutions were changing the word 'consulate' to 'diplomatic facility' because 'consulate' was inaccurate."

What the talking points reflected, after a dozen heavy edits dictated by the State Department, was a sanitized version designed to protect President Obama's re-election chances and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's prospective candidacy in 2016. They were deliberately altered to eliminate references to terrorism so the whole thing could be blamed on an inflammatory video and no one in the administration could be held responsible.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; hillaryclinton; ibd; ibdbenghazi; libya; nenghazigate; talkingpoints; waronterror
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To: what's up
6) None of the above

She first tweeted about it early morning Sept. 11th many hours before the attack in Benghazi. That means the "video" was being put forth as cover for something before there was any failure of security to cover for.

21 posted on 05/10/2013 5:47:02 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: colorado tanker
Yes, and he and Hillary spent $79k taxpayer dollars to apologize for the 1st Amendment directly to the Pakistanis.

Pakistanis didn't know about any "video" or any "insults" until 0blablah and Hillbilly broadcast this...

Obama and Hillary Apologize for Free Speech on Pakistani TV (taxpayer-funded ads) Sept. 20, 2012

Which immediately resulted in this...

Pakistan: 17 killed in anti-Islam film protests Sept. 21, 2012

0bama then went to the UN and re-inflamed the Muslim world once again over the manufactured offense "Innocence of Muslims."

U.S. President Speaks to U.N. About YouTube Video

Those apologies validated their anger.

22 posted on 05/10/2013 5:49:56 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: TigersEye
She first tweeted about it early morning Sept. 11th many hours before the attack in Benghazi.

But wouldn't Tripoli already have been attacked by then?

23 posted on 05/10/2013 5:55:20 PM PDT by what's up
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To: what's up

I don’t think Tripoli was attacked.


24 posted on 05/10/2013 5:56:54 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: raptor22

“Ambassador Christopher Stevens was aware of the threat and had warned Benghazi could not be defended after what security they had was withdrawn.”

If he was aware of the lapse in security, why did he go into Benghazzi anyway? Did they ORDER him to go to Benghazzi after he had warned them it could not be defended?


25 posted on 05/10/2013 5:57:46 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: raptor22

The WH is saying the GOP knew about the emails 2 months ago and wasn’t concerned about them and ignored them. Thats why obama wins this and gets away with it.


26 posted on 05/10/2013 6:04:17 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: what's up

Carney is trying to argue that the CIA “wrote” every draft, therefore the White House and State didn’t change anything.

He was lying through his teeth today, and every reporter knew it.

I thought that press conference might be the undoing of the Obama Administration. They are caught in a lie, and the White House is insistent on blaming the CIA. And the press knows and smells blood.

I think what is not being written about right now, the CIA operatives trying to come forward and blow the whistle, is the big story. NO ONE is discussing in the media what the CIa was doing in Benghazzi. It is the pink elephant in the room, and the media has been studiously ignoring it.

I wonder if the deliberate lies today, and blaming the CIA, will finally make the press ask the questions that should have been asked about the CIa operation in Benghazzi?


27 posted on 05/10/2013 6:05:08 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: what's up

“So what was her primary reason for blaming the video so quickly?”

Deflecting attention AWAY from the CIA Operation.


28 posted on 05/10/2013 6:07:33 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: raptor22

IBD is putting out some good stuff today,


29 posted on 05/10/2013 6:09:42 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: TigersEye

Yes, you are right about that.


30 posted on 05/10/2013 6:11:17 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Bryan24
Deflecting attention AWAY from the CIA Operation.

Perhaps.

31 posted on 05/10/2013 6:13:36 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Still Thinking; StopGlobalWhining; Straight Vermonter; Tampa Caver; TChris; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


32 posted on 05/10/2013 6:20:06 PM PDT by raptor22 (Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
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To: Viennacon

I think they are both culpable....Hilary owned the talking points misdirection, security lapses and Barry owns the stand down orders. Big question is who pushed the video......


33 posted on 05/10/2013 6:20:10 PM PDT by GotMojo
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To: Bryan24
Someone decided Stevens couldn't be trusted with further US arms transfers to al Qaeda affiliated terrorist organizations working to overthrow Assad and then Move on to Jordan and Saudi Arabia - then Israel.

Stevens' security was withdrawn because this was a hit.

Things may get worse for our wannabe Caliphate Mr. Obama before they get better.

34 posted on 05/10/2013 6:20:23 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.u)
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To: what's up; Bryan24
Deflecting attention AWAY from the CIA Operation.

That is not a bad speculation when you consider that Hillary was trying to stir up a riot in Cairo and other embassies around the world. Several others were attacked that day. Her embassy in Cairo was tweeting apologies for the "video" in the very early morning hours of Sept. 11th. The attack in Benghazi didn't occur until about 9:20 PM Sept. 11th.

Was that all an effort to divert eyes away from Libya, specifically Benghazi?

35 posted on 05/10/2013 6:21:06 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: kabar

No version of the talking points ever mentioned a video. Susan Rice, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton all said they relied on information from the intelligence community and all said Benghazi was the result of protests about the video. The CIA never said any such thing.


36 posted on 05/10/2013 6:25:44 PM PDT by csmusaret (America is more divided today , not because of the problems we face but because of Obama's solutions)
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To: uncommonsense

—— But, career state department employees were threatened, and demoted, for using official channels to make basic requests for security before the mid-term election. ——

Thanks. That clarifies things.


37 posted on 05/10/2013 6:36:23 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: GotMojo

Yes. WHO PUSHED THE DAMN VIDEO?!


38 posted on 05/10/2013 6:39:10 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Bryan24

I wonder if the deliberate lies today, and blaming the CIA, will finally make the press ask the questions that should have been asked about the CIa operation in Benghazzi?


Not a chance. By tomorrow the media will drop the whole thing.


39 posted on 05/10/2013 6:46:55 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: kabar
... and the SOS must sign off on sharing DOD resources. 2 points of conviction on Benghazi - security downgrade ops and paring down shared DOD resources.
40 posted on 05/10/2013 7:22:41 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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