Benghazi: People Died Obama Lied

FredHayek wrote: Now it was revealed that they armed Rice only with talking points for the Sunday shows because they didn't want her to slip up and reveal the truth. Nothing like sending a parrot out to keep America up to date. Maybe Team Obama should have sent someone who actually understood the events surrounding the assasination, like the former head of the CIA?

Oh, you mean "NOW IT IS REVEALED" (revealed?) that 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.

Wow.. You guys are slow...But it's good to see you finally come around...now that it has been "REVEALED" to you...

GOP’s Benghazi Conspiracy Falls Apart: White House Didn’t Change Susan Rice’s Talking Points

Intelligence officials told CNN that the intelligence community, not the White House, changed the now infamous Benghazi talking points given to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice before her appearance on several morning news shows in September. CNN quoted both the spokesperson for the Director of National Intelligence and an anonymous official “familiar with the drafting of the talking points.” The DNI spokesperson said that the only “substantive changes” came from the intelligence community and not the White House.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers in a closed door hearing last week that the CIA’s original assessment on the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack was that it was carried out by al Qaeda affiliated groups. But he reportedly said that analysis was later taken out after an interagency review in favor of a more general assessment that “extremists” carried out the attack to broaden the scope and not tip off terrorists to U.S. knowledge on the matter. And despite the fact that Petraeus said the CIA approved the change, Republicans, led by Republican senators John McCain (AZ), Lindsey Graham (SC) and Kelly Ayotte (NH), have accused the White House of stripping the language for political reasons.

But Shawn Turner, the spokesman for the Director of National Intelligence, told CNN that it wasn’t the White House’s decision.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/ ... oints-cia/

Wow!!....It was REVEALED!...that the INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY arrived at the unclassified talking points that Rice was ALLOWED to present? REVEALED, I'll have you know!!!

So, 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 .

So Raes and LJ can't even agree on Rice's talking points? Did the White House and the intelligence community change them or not?

Fred, you're not that dumb.

Raees wrote: Fred, you're not that dumb.

Uh........ :crossed:

This attempt to smear President Obama with something, ANYTHING, is soon going to start backfiring on the Republicans. While the economy needs attention, the Republicans are trying to make this more of an issue in order to try to score political points. McCain proved this when he held a press conference bitching about wanting answers while he was missing a briefing on the very subject he wanted answers on. It is the new bone that the right has tried to get the public to chew on.

And the mainstream press will continue to ignore this story, just like they ignored the funneling of guns to Mexico.

A ammunition dealer in El Paso is about to do major time for selling to Mexico. He should have asked the ATF if they wanted to make Fast & Furious II.

But I have a problem with the difference between the intelligence community and the White House. The intelligence community does the bidding of the executive branch. Valerie Jarret and Obama made the order to punch the ticket on OBL.

Just like F&F, the ATF operates with the overview of the executive branch so when they are doing major operations without approval or even aknowledgement, are they out of control? Or is the administration too hands off? Do they only want to have the buck stop here when it reflects well on them? If it is a boondoggle, blame the underlings.

Gee if there were a "story" there, I'm sure the MSM would cover it... Unfortunately, there's no "there" there.... And the more you guys regurgitate this crap the stupider you look.

Wow... How about that WATERGATE!?!? Now, THERE was a scandal....A few guys in prison, and one resigned president. Or the "Iran/Contra" affair that put a few guys in prison....

How far back you wanna go, Fred?... The Teapot Dome Scandal / Tammany Hall, maybe?

The GOP’s Misguided Crusade Against Susan Rice

The problem here is that no one has offered evidence that Rice distorted or concealed any facts known to her. To the contrary, we know that Rice, quite responsibly, spoke from talking points crafted by the U.S. intelligence community. Those talking points have since been shown to be seriously flawed. But that’s not Rice’s fault. As one clever Washington Post reader put it: “Since she presumably does not operate a private intelligence agency, sensible people will wonder what else she could have said.”

Lacking a clear shot at Rice’s actions, House Republicans have resorted to a half-baked argument about appearances. The problem, they argue, is that Rice is “widely viewed” as incompetent or dishonest, not only at home but “around the world.” Whether Rice would fail to win a hearing at, say, the Saudi king’s palace because of this one trip around the talk show circuit is hard enough to swallow. But when you think about it, the letter also entails a certain chutzpah. If being “widely viewed” as incompetent or dishonest is such a problem, shouldn’t most of the people who signed that letter, being members of Congress and all, themselves be out of a job?

http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/20/the-gops-misguided-crusade-against-susan-rice/#ixzz2CnlcyYLu