The Benghazi Lies and Cover Up by the Obama Administration.

[JBond]

I figured we could track all the lies and cover up in one thread.

Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference...

When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story.

ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.
White House emails reviewed by ABC News suggest the edits were made with extensive input from the State Department. The edits included requests from the State Department that references to the Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Sharia be deleted as well references to CIA warnings about terrorist threats in Benghazi in the months preceding the attack.

That would appear to directly contradict what White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said about the talking points in November.

“Those talking points originated from the intelligence community. They reflect the IC’s best assessments of what they thought had happened,” Carney told reporters at the White House press briefing on November 28, 2012. “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.”

Summaries of White House and State Department emails — some of which were first published by Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard — show that the State Department had extensive input into the editing of the talking points.

State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland raised specific objections to this paragraph drafted by the CIA in its earlier versions of the talking points:

“The Agency has produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to al-Qa’ida in Benghazi and eastern Libya. These noted that, since April, there have been at least five other attacks against foreign interests in Benghazi by unidentified assailants, including the June attack against the British Ambassador’s convoy. We cannot rule out the individuals has previously surveilled the U.S. facilities, also contributing to the efficacy of the attacks.”

In an email to officials at the White House and the intelligence agencies, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland took issue with including that information because it “could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either? Concerned …”

The paragraph was entirely deleted.

Like the final version used by Ambassador Rice on the Sunday shows, the CIA’s first drafts said the attack appeared to have been “spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo” but the CIA version went on to say, “That being said, we do know that Islamic extremists with ties to al-Qa’ida participated in the attack.” The draft went on to specifically name the al Qaeda-affiliated group named Ansar al-Sharia.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/exclusive-benghazi-talking-points-underwent-12-revisions-scrubbed-of-terror-references/

 

[MetalHead]

They changed the talking points 12 times erasing the words terrorism,Islam and jihadist.
They knowingly lied to the American people by blaming the attacks on a youtube video.
They "advised" the whistleblowers not to speak to republican congressmen.

It is now public knowledge that:
1.There were assets available to placate the assailants.
2.There were not one,but two Stand Down orders issued.Only The POTUS can issue such orders.

Now:

Where was Obama?
Why were General Ham and Admiral Gaouette relieved of duties?

 

[VTA]

And that guy who made the damnable video is probably still in jail...

 

[Dodger12]

And no one that voted for Obama is going to care. This whole situation and the lies/cover-up for political gain during the election is absolutely disgusting. And the Secretary of State giving the whole "what does it matter" attitude is sickening. It matters to the families of those killed to at least know the truth; the government's lies and denials to cover their politcal asses have made this a far bigger issue

 

[dbair1967]

Yep. And Obama media has helped him every step of the way through this.

 

[iceberg]

And no one that voted for Obama is going to care. This whole situation and the lies/cover-up for political gain during the election is absolutely disgusting. And the Secretary of State giving the whole "what does it matter" attitude is sickening. It matters to the families of those killed to at least know the truth; the government's lies and denials to cover their politcal asses have made this a far bigger issue

yea, i saw a facebook repost of gawker.com saying "what the fuck is this benghazi shit?" and the liberals were saying it was a personal attack on hillary trying to keep her from being POTUS.

it's ok for my side to lie, but when your side does it PARTY FOUL!!!!

that's what friggin sucks.

 

[MetalHead]

Judge Pirro lays it thick again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ds1nnJ3t14

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I can't believe that shit. Going to sleep while Americans are under a hostile siege?

Do you guys think this is grounds for impeachment?

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Lol Leon Panetta

"You don't deploy forces into harm's way"

Are you kidding me? Isn't going into harm's way the basis of our military??? Don't we have special groups in the armed forces that are trained to respond to such circumstances?

 

[Bob Sacamano]

The Obamas sure do love flying away on frivolous adventures on our taxpaying dollar. They need absolutely no excuse to "get away".

It's not like they actually work for a living anyways.

 

[MetalHead]

Lol Leon Panetta

"You don't deploy forces into harm's way"

Are you kidding me? Isn't going into harm's way the basis of our military??? Don't we have special groups in the armed forces that are trained to respond to such circumstances?

Yes we do,able and willing to do so.
These treasonous pieces of shit count on the ignorant people who voted them into office to gobble up every single lie they tell without asking any questions.
This time they went too far.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I can't even imagine presidents like Lincoln, FDR, JFK going to sleep while innocent Americans are being slaughtered thousands of miles away WHILE trying to extend their administration's sphere of influence.

 

[MetalHead]

Crime,Inc.

 

[JBond]

Obama administrations forbids the first two days of Benghazi emails from being released

The Benghazi-related emails released by the White House late May 15 exclude the critical emails between administration officials that were sent during the crucial first two days after the deadly jihadi attack that killed four Americans last September.

The 100 pages of partially redacted emails also conclude with a dismissive message from CIA chief David Petraeus.

“Frankly, I’d just as soon not use this,” Petraeus said about the heavily edited, four-sentence “talking points” that the White House used to downplay Al Qaeda’s role in the Sep. 11 attack on the poorly protected diplomatic compound.

The two-day gap — the first released email was sent 67 hours after the attack began — plus the Petraeus comment, undermines the White House’s explanation for the rewrite.

Officials, including spokesman Jay Carney, say CIA officials — not White House and State Department officials — rewrote a quick-reaction CIA report that had attributed the attack to an al-Qaeda affiliate.

After the attack, White House officials used the edited talking points to bolster repeated claims that the organized attack was an unpredictable, spontaneous violent riot by Libyans who were angry about a California-made YouTube video.

The little-known video was sharply critical of Mohammad, the central prophet in Islam.

The video was repeatedly cited by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the crisis, which began only eight weeks before the 2012 election.

GOP legislators plan to continue investigating the September cover-up of al-Qaeda’s role, and the current cover-up over the White House’s role in rewriting the CIA report.

GOP officials also say more whistleblowers will testify in Congress about the attackers and the White House’s failure to send reinforcements to the beleaguered U.S. diplomats and soldiers.

An interim House report into the cover-up “found that ‘senior State Department officials requested the talking points be changed to avoid criticism for ignoring the threat environment in Benghazi and that those changes were ultimately made,” said the Buck statement.

“Those findings are confirmed by the emails released today … [and] the seemingly political nature of the State Department’s concerns raises questions about the motivations behind these changes and who at the State Department was seeking them,” he concluded.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/w...ical-two-day-gap-cia-objection/#ixzz2TSwX9yOh

 

[superpunk]

I can't believe that shit. Going to sleep while Americans are under a hostile siege?

Do you guys think this is grounds for impeachment?

every once in a while, robert.

 

[JBond]

White House Holds Secret Benghazi Briefing, Incensing Some Reporters

The White House found itself with another press corps controversy on its hands on Friday, after it emerged that it held a secret briefing about the Benghazi attacks with a select group of White House reporters.

Spokesperson Jay Carney was initially supposed to hold a briefing at 12:30 PM on Friday. However, ABC's Jon Karl threw a wrench in that plan when he reported that the State Department had been involved in lengthy revisions of CIA talking points about the attacks.

All of a sudden, the press briefing was pushed back to 1:45 PM. Then, Politico reported that the White House had held a secret briefing about the Benghazi developments with reporters. The site reported that, while the contents of the briefing were on "deep background," meaning that they could be used as background information in reporting, the existence of the meeting itself was off the record.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...t-benghazi-briefing-jay-carney_n_3254800.html