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NY Times' Maureen Dowd Defies Her Paper's Reporting To Attack Susan Rice Over Benghazi
In her November 18 column, Dowd writes that Rice "should have realized that when a gang showed up with R.P.G.'s and mortars in a place known as a hotbed of Qaeda sympathizers and Islamic extremist training camps, it was `not anger over a movie." But the Times' own reporting indicates that the people who attacked the diplomatic facility have said that an anti-Muslim film prompted their attack.
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Feinstein Says Senate Will Investigate Benghazi ‘Talking Points’
By BRIAN KNOWLTON
The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday that she planned to investigate why the C.I.A.’s quick determination of a terrorist role in the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, was not reflected in the “talking points” used days later on television by Susan E. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations......
She said a transcript of testimony given a day after the attack by David H. Petraeus, who was then director of the C.I.A., showed that “Petraeus very clearly said that it was a terrorist attack.”.....
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Some intelligence analysts worried, for instance, that identifying the groups could reveal that American spy services were eavesdropping on the militants — a fact most insurgents are already aware of. Justice Department lawyers expressed concern about jeopardizing the F.B.I.’s criminal inquiry in the attacks. Other officials voiced concern that making the names public, at least right away, would create a circular reporting loop and hamper efforts to trail the militants.
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CNS NewsHouse Intel Chair: 'Appointees from Administration' Changed Rice's Talking Points
Who changed the CIA talking points to minimize the fact that terrorists were behind the attack on the U.S. outposts in Benghazi?
When Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., went on five Sunday talk shows five days later, she was still blaming the attack on a spontaneous protest over an obscure anti-Islam video.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, says the unclassified talking points put together by the CIA changed when they got to administration appointees:
"[T]here was not an intelligence failure," Rogers told "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
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"The only edit that was made by the White House and also by the State Department was to change the word ‘consulate’ to the word ‘diplomatic facility,’ since the facility in Benghazi was not formally a consulate," said Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communication Ben Rhodes. "Other than that we were guided by the points that were provided by the intelligence community. So I can’t speak to any other edits that may have been made.”
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LadyJazzer wrote: "The only edit that was made by the White House and also by the State Department was to change the word ‘consulate’ to the word ‘diplomatic facility,’ since the facility in Benghazi was not formally a consulate," said Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communication Ben Rhodes. "Other than that we were guided by the points that were provided by the intelligence community. So I can’t speak to any other edits that may have been made.”
BOO!!!
Wow... Now, THERE'S a "smoking gun"... They changed the word "consulate" to: "diplomatic facility"...
THE OUTRAGE... THE NERVE.... THE SCANDAL!!!
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She went out and gave the talking points that were agreed to by the entire intelligence community as reflecting their unclassified views at the moment that she used those talking points .
What part of that are you having trouble understanding? Is it the part about "AS REFLECTING THEIR UNCLASSIFIED VIEWS AT THE MOMENT THAT SHE USED THOSE TALKING POINTS"...? I can explain it to you...But I can't understand it for you. I seem to remember Obama DESTROYING RMoney with the lie that he (Obama) didn't call it an "act of terrorism" in the Rose Garden on the day after it happened... And then there's that memorable piece of video with the classic line, "Please proceed, Governor..." And Mitt-Flop DESTROYING HIMSELF with yet another LIE...?
In the meantime, 4,780 US personnel died in Iraq because Bush and Condoleeza Rice LIED.
And I'm STILL waiting for PROOF that the President of the United States "lied"....
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