People Died Obama Lied-Talking Points-12 Revisions

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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2 ... eth-warren


Benghazi: The Shiny Object Distracting Us From Elizabeth Warren

By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News

09 May 13



f you haven’t yet seen "Wag the Dog," go watch it right now. I’ll wait. And don’t worry, this article isn’t actually about Benghazi, but something that really matters.

The movie is about how the art of manipulation is used by the media to distract people from events of actual importance. It was cited regularly when the GOP had their Clinton witch hunt. The GOP’s latest witch hunt over Benghazi is simply more wagging of the dog. Fox News is trying really, really hard to make it into Obama’s Watergate to keep us all distracted from some incredibly populist moves in the Senate.

Elizabeth Warren’s first official bill of the 113th Congress, the Bank on Student Loan Fairness Act, is her first big salvo against the Wall Street and Federal Reserve banking cartel that controls our government. She’s made headlines during banking committee hearings, where she’s exposed the fact that the government's Wall Street regulators are simply tools used by Wall Street to pilfer more money from the people. She turned heads when calling for a $22 an hour minimum wage in another hearing. She even got Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to agree that "Too-Big-to-Fail" banks should be broken up. Now she’s introducing a bill that says if the banks that wrecked our economy and multinational corporations can borrow billions at a 0.75% interest rate, then students should be able to get those same rates when pursuing a higher education.

Apple exploited this obviously rigged system earlier this month when it borrowed $17 billion from the Federal Reserve at the preferential interest rate, then used it to enrich their own executives and dodge $9 billion in taxes. Banks borrow regularly at that same rate from the Fed to make risky bets on Wall Street. But this Summer, students with federal Stafford loans will see their interest rates double from 3.4% to 6.8%. The banks aren’t creating anything real, just imaginary financial instruments. But ensuring that more people have access to a college education will only improve society in the long run. So why are we bleeding poor students dry while giving big banks preferential treatment?

If you’re on Twitter, chances are your trending topics box has #Benghazi at or near the top. That means Fox News and the right-wing corporate media are succeeding in getting both the left and the right to squabble over an issue that was dragged through the mud months ago in a cheap attempt to politicize a tragedy. There were 60 deaths at U.S. embassies and consulates during the Bush administration, and there were zero outraged Republicans having hearings about it. The House GOP is obviously playing along with the corporate-owned spin machine’s game of smoke and mirrors. It’s largely a frantic attempt by the corporations running our government to steer attention away from the populist resistance to corporate rule that’s slowly and steadily sweeping all over the country.

Our goal should be to make #BankOnStudents the new top trend on Twitter, and spread word about Warren’s bold new bill far and wide. Call your senators and demand they support it if they want your vote. Let’s help Elizabeth Warren stick it to the banks and the corporate tyrants and refuse to get distracted by the shiny objects they flash at us.

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Carl Gibson, 25, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary "We're Not Broke," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin. You can contact him at , and follow him on twitter at @uncutCG.

Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.

Yes... the spin from the left is violent this morning. I don't think they can make this go away.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much? There is just massive failure from the top down and just shows the incompetence and the way the Obama administration has been all about passing the buck.
A more dynamic administration would have been doing things. Obama and Hilary just sat, watched, and threw up their hands. "There was nothing we could do."
A pro-active administration might have even increased defenses before the important day of 9/11 instead of turning down security requests.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/world ... d=all&_r=0

The web gets THICKER and more difficult to UNtangle......this WHOLE fubar is despicable......JMO

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote: Ya beat me to it Bob... did you see the other video where Lisa Myers admits there is a problem.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/ ... inton.html

I still waiting for the 285 Bound liberals to jump in and explain this all to me?

LadyJazzer wrote: What did we learn?...Absolutely NOTHING new that wasn't already known before.

It's hard to learn anything new when your eyes are closed and you're listening to MSNBC. Don't expect LJ to drop into this thread anytime soon.

I just keep repeating this commercial over and over in my head.

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Hilary certainly didn't answer the phone now did she.
Apparently no one answered the phone.

frogger wrote: I just keep repeating this commercial over and over in my head.

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Hilary certainly didn't answer the phone now did she.
Apparently no one answered the phone.

Actually, she did talk to gregory Hicks at 2am, but it's strange she didn't ask for his take on how/why there was an attack. But I guess she answered that question when she said "what difference does it make?"

The media won't go after Hillary now, but you can bet the truth will be put in front of the uninformed voters via commercials in 2016. I'm sure Biden is counting on that.

OMG, 12 revisions! How dare they! A staffer revised the points before they were released. That is outrageous!!!!!!!
Oh wait, what were the revisions?

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/B ... meline.pdf
Both the initial draft created by the CIA and the final draft said the Benghazi attacks were "spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo."
The initial draft described the attackers as "Islamic extremists" while the final draft described them as "extremists."
The initial draft said press reports had linked Ansar al-Sharia to the attack, but added that the group had denied ordering it in a statement. The initial draft nonetheless did not rule out that some of its members may have participated. The final draft didn't include any mention of Ansar al-Sharia.
The initial draft referred to previous incidents of violence in Benghazi conducted by unidentified attackers. The final draft excluded this.


So the basic facts are that the CIA initially informed the State Department that the violence was due to the violence at the US embassy in Cairo. And that those involved were "extremists" not "terrorists".

Well that was really earth shaking.

Something the Dog Said wrote: OMG, 12 revisions! How dare they! A staffer revised the points before they were released. That is outrageous!!!!!!!
Oh wait, what were the revisions?

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/B ... meline.pdf
Both the initial draft created by the CIA and the final draft said the Benghazi attacks were "spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo."
The initial draft described the attackers as "Islamic extremists" while the final draft described them as "extremists."
The initial draft said press reports had linked Ansar al-Sharia to the attack, but added that the group had denied ordering it in a statement. The initial draft nonetheless did not rule out that some of its members may have participated. The final draft didn't include any mention of Ansar al-Sharia.
The initial draft referred to previous incidents of violence in Benghazi conducted by unidentified attackers. The final draft excluded this.


So the basic facts are that the CIA initially informed the State Department that the violence was due to the violence at the US embassy in Cairo. And that those involved were "extremists" not "terrorists".

Well that was really earth shaking.

And the talking points ended up on 5 Sunday morning news shows a "reaction for a anti-muslim video." You don't find that problematic at all?

ANd of course you left this out...

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. [/b][/i]

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/10/a ... reference/

You're doing a terrible job at carrying the Democrats water.

And Dog... you missed this whole paragraph that was edited out... from the CIA...

“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.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/20 ... eferences/

You should offer your selective editing skill to the State Department.