Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report Claims

Huffington Post ^ | 5/5/14 | Chris Gentilviso

[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.

[Resettozero]

That’ll be the subject of all the news programs for the next few weeks.

Not as harmful to the cause of American Constitutional conservatism as it was a decade or two ago when those in their sixties, seventies and eighties believed the 6:30 ET News was the gospel.

Younger folks (we) are older now, have been through the propaganda courses in college a good while back, and know (fairly soon) when we are being played.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[Jane Long]

Altered documents?? Let’s get Mary Mapes on it, right now!

[oldbrowser]

CBS reporting on the altering of documents? Now aint that rich? I guess this will be the meme this week and will overshadow the real story....

Dan Rather is working for the republicans ??

[struggle]

How much you want to bet Ben Rhodes did this on purpose?

[sport]

This is intended for the Democrat base, it will be sounded far and wide.

[ForYourChildren]

So the media admits that the emails have been altered. This is a good start.

The media says it is the republicans. And where is their proof? This is not journalism!! It is pure propaganda. It is Yellow Journalism.

The media lies! They are untruthful.

And with this story from CBS, all the other MSM outlets will pick up the CBS story and just replay it. They will not do their own research to confirm or deny.

[GOPJ]

Democrats can kill people and the press yawns... but if they were to catch us jay walking they would find their silly outrage.

Shame on them for being played for fools so easily...

[Grampa Dave]

Is Dan Rather working for CBS again?

[skinkinthegrass]

Dan Rather-not, please pick-up the red phone in the lobby @ CB$

[sport]

They [the media] are not being played. They are willing co-conspirators.

[no-to-illegals]

Have popcorn, will watch.

[Diogenesis]

[drypowder]

like we didn’t already know this! This is just more proof the MSM, which is owned by the ruling elite, is complicit in this current government’s goal of total destruction of America. Those who work for the MSM spewing this propaganda will also be held to account.

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[DocJhn]

Dan Rather became a Republican?? When?

[Resettozero]

They [the media] are not being played. They are willing co-conspirators.

Sport is right, GOPJ.

But TV media is hunkering down. Even Lester Holt only gave 20 seconds to this story Saturday evening and it wasn't on his teleprompter at all Sunday. The media is leaning into war against Constitutional Americans! Let's see who has the most stamina now.

[no-to-illegals]

The egg on the faces lame-stream must have found another plate of eggs.

[Baynative]

"...it's the Republicans who altered the emails..."

They do things like that because they're racists and they want dirty water.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“How much you want to bet Ben Rhodes did this on purpose?”

Yup! Reales one version, then release the other, and blame the Pubbies.