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Fox: Email Reveals Obama Advisor Urged Rice to Blame Video for Benghazi
Mediate.com ^ | April 29, 2014 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 04/29/2014 10:59:52 AM PDT by BulletBobCo

On Tuesday, an email obtained by the government watchdog Judicial Watch revealed that a senior American advisor informed then National Security Advisor Susan Rice to emphasize that the deadly 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya was the result of a spontaneous protest arising from an inflammatory YouTube video. Transcripts later revealed that senior defense officials had informed the administration on the night of the assault that the event was a “terrorist attack.”

Fox’s intel correspondent Catherine Herridge reported that a September 14 emails links White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes advised Rice to focus on the YouTube video during her appearances on a variety of Sunday morning news programs:

Among the goals Rhodes outlined for Rice was for her “to underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; benghazi; benrhodes; hillaryclinton; hitlery; iran; jaycarney; libya; rice; susanrice; waronterror
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To: no-to-illegals

it appears they killed stevens because he found out about the gun running..


41 posted on 04/29/2014 11:43:59 AM PDT by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: no-to-illegals

it appears they killed stevens because he found out about the gun running to al queda..


42 posted on 04/29/2014 11:45:26 AM PDT by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: BulletBobCo

How convenient. Put all the blame on a faceless bureaucrat that you can publicly fire to put all this to rest, eh?


43 posted on 04/29/2014 11:48:13 AM PDT by MNnice
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To: aces
My thought as well. No other reason for the turkish ambassador to bird dog. Ambassador Stevens was about to blow the lid. obama, hillary and penetta could not allow the saudi royals to be disappointed in them. Too much money, to them (obama, hillary and penetta), was slated to exchange hands.
44 posted on 04/29/2014 11:51:29 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: MikeSteelBe

My question is how or whether Benghazi is actually a by-product of the Arab Spring, which was really the African Spring because it only affected countries in North Africa.

The culmination of Arab Spring was the overthrow of Ghadaffi in Libya. My understanding is the opposition soldiers who fought the Ghadaffi regime were primarily African Muslim mercenaries who came in from neighboring countries to help overthrow the Libyan government.

These same mercenaries later returned south with their training & weapons to cause havoc and try to impose Islamic law in places like Mali, Uganda, and North & South Sudan.

Whether this relates to Benghazi is a valid question, esp. if the focus of the CIA operation was secret gun-running to Al Qaeda or related organizations that were actively trying to overthrow other African governments and impose Islamic law in them. In other words, African Muslim mercenaries were attempting to spread the “Arab Spring” movement from North Africa downward on the continent, possibly armed through the alleged CIA Benghazi operation.


45 posted on 04/29/2014 11:56:00 AM PDT by RaveOn ("No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." Lamar Keene)
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To: MeshugeMikey

How come the investigating committee of senators didn’t tell
us about Ben Rhodes e-mail before?


46 posted on 04/29/2014 11:57:38 AM PDT by tillacum
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To: BulletBobCo

Lead story on tonight’s Nightly News...(yeah, sure.)


47 posted on 04/29/2014 11:58:51 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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How could Morell have been the first to come up with the "Youtube video" story when Hillary tweeted an apology for it at 10:38 PM that night? When the Cairo embassy was Tweeting apologies to Muslims almost 24 hours earlier, long before the attack in Benghazi?

Benghazi - The Hillary Timeline

8:00 PM - Hillary Clinton calls Gregory Hicks. (Hicks testified that he told her exactly what was happening.)

10:00 PM - WH: Obama Called Hillary at 10PM on Night of Benghazi Attack. February 20, 2013

10:38 PM - Hillary Tweets apology for "anti-Mohammed video" from Cairo Twitter account. (That was about 20 - 22 hours after the first apology was tweeted from the Cairo embassy.)

48 posted on 04/29/2014 12:04:28 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: lepton

OH that explains it!!!!


49 posted on 04/29/2014 12:14:21 PM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: TigersEye

obama, hillary and panetta give Love a bad name. No doubt.


50 posted on 04/29/2014 12:15:39 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: hoosiermama

Soros


51 posted on 04/29/2014 1:28:35 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
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