Posted on 05/05/2014 9:26:47 AM PDT by Nachum
One day after The White House released 100 pages of Benghazi emails, a report has surfaced alleging that Republicans released a set with altered text.
CBS News reported Thursday that leaked versions sent out by the GOP last Friday had visible differences than Wednesday's official batch. Two correspondences that were singled out in the report came from National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes and State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
The GOP version of Rhodes' comment, according to CBS News: "We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don't want to undermine the FBI investigation."
The White House email: "We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation."
The GOP version of Nuland's comment, according to CBS News: The penultimate point is a paragraph talking about all the previous warnings provided by the Agency (CIA) about al-Qaeda's presence and activities of al-Qaeda."
The White House email: "The penultimate point could be abused by members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings."
The news parallels a Tuesday CNN report which initially introduced the contradiction between what was revealed in a White House Benghazi email version, versus what was reported in media outlets. On Monday, Mother Jones noted that the Republicans' interim report included the correct version of the emails, signaling that more malice and less incompetence may have been at play with the alleged alterations.
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Irony ping.
CBS reports on White House e-mails that were allegedly altered by Republicans.
Those are some serious alterations of text. We need to go straight to the source that released the text of the e-mails. Could the alterations, in fact, be alterations made by the WH during its preparations for Susan Rice?
More later.
This article was originally posted last year on May 16, 2013 and is not related to the recent batch of Benghazi e-mails.
I posted my ‘deja vu’ comment about this days ago...
...not surprised. The deja vu runs deeper though.
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