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Saturday, 7:12 pm –

Further evidence that these points were knowingly to be used by Susan Rice, Rhodes says to USUN address confirming with “yup” that these are these are the final points to be used on Sunday for Rice.

These emails make clear that the CIA did not make these changes of its own volition.

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The Facts about the White House Benghazi Emails

Posted by Kevin Smith
May 20, 2013
General
On April 23, 2013, five House committees – Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, Judiciary, and Oversight & Government Reform – released their interim investigative report on the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans. The interim report found, among other things, that:

After the attack in Benghazi, the Administration willfully perpetuated a deliberately misleading and incomplete narrative that the attacks evolved from a political demonstration caused by a YouTube video.
Senior State Department officials requested that talking points drafted by the Intelligence Community be scrubbed to exclude references to al Qaeda and terrorism to avoid criticism for ignoring the threat environment in Benghazi, and that those changes were ultimately made.
The Administration deflected responsibility by blaming the Intelligence Community for the information it communicated to the public in both the talking points and the subsequent narrative it perpetuated.
Under pressure from Republicans, this week the White House released a series of emails about the Benghazi talking points that confirm the interim report’s finding and contradict the White House’s long-standing claims that it and the State Department only changed one word in the talking points. Amazingly, the White House continues to maintain the changes to the talking points were CIA edits, but the emails clearly show otherwise. Yes, the CIA physically made the changes on paper, but it was done at the urging of the State Department (with White House support) because they didn’t want to be criticized for providing inadequate security. Here’s a number of emails that contradict the White House’s claims:

Friday, 7:39pm – State Dept’s Victoria Nuland expresses “serious concerns” about content of TPs
Friday, 8:39pm – Adams (State Legislative Affairs) writes: “I’m with Toria [Nuland]. The last bullet especially will read to members like we had been repeatedly warned” about possible attacks
Friday, 9:15pm – CIA OPA writes to CIA OCA: “Here’s where we stand as of this hour. . . . Everyone has submitted coordination comments. . . .The State Department had major reservations with much or most of the document. We revised the document with their comments in mind.”
Friday 9:24pm – Nuland replies to new draft of talking points: “These don’t resolve all my issues of those of my building leadership. They are consulting with NSS.”
Friday 9:24pm – Nuland forwards the email message she wrote stating “these don’t resolve all my issues . . .” to Jake Sullivan at State with a note “FYSA.”
Friday 9:25pm – State’s Sullivan sends email, “I spoke with Tommy [Vietor at the White House]. We’ll work through this in the morning and get comments back.”
Friday 9:26pm – Vietor sends email “Given the DOJ equities and States desire to run some traps, safe to assume we can hold off on this until tomorrow?”
Friday, 9:32pm – State’s Jake Sullivan replies to Nuland’s email of 9:24pm and replies, “Talked to Tommy [at the White House] – we can make edits.”
Friday, 9:34pm – White House’s Ben Rhodes sends email: “We need to resolve this in a way that respects all relevant equities . . . we can take this up tomorrow at deputies”
Friday, 9:52pm – CIA OPA sends email to CIA OCA an email – a draft note for the Director [Petraeus]: “Sir – we’ve tried to work the draft talking points for HPSCI through the coordination process and have run into major problems. . . . State has major concerns.” (p. 59)
Friday, 8:58 pm – As evidence that WH intended to use these points for the Admin’s messaging: Vieter to Nuland, Sullivan, and Rhodes “We will use these too” in response to Nuland’s email of 8:55 “These points are for Congress to use with Press. Shdnt they be consistent with our own public lines if we are recommending them?”
Saturday, 11:08am – CIA’s Morell writes, “Per the discussion at Deputies, here are the revised TPs for the HPSCI.”
Saturday, 12:14pm – CIA OPA writes, “Here’s where we are with the tweaks after tweaks from Ben and Jake.”
Saturday, 2:27pm – CIA Director David Petraeus to CIA OCA “No mention of cable to Cairo, either? Frankly, I’d just as soon not use this, then… NSS’s call, to be sure; however, this is certainly not what Ruppersberger was hoping to get for unclass use.”
Saturday, 7:12 pm – Further evidence that these points were knowingly to be used by Susan Rice, Rhodes says to USUN address confirming with “yup” that these are these are the final points to be used on Sunday for Rice.
These emails make clear that the CIA did not make these changes of its own volition. When releasing this series of emails, the White House attempted to claim that the CIA’s Mike Morell decided to make changes to the talking points independent of any concerns from the State Department. But nothing in these emails back up this White House claim. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. The emails confirm that the talking point changes were made at the request of the State Department, and with the White House’s support.

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. In the coming days and months, Republicans will continue to seek answers from this White House and administration, because the American people, and the families of the fallen, deserve the truth.

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[If MSNBC reported Benghazi truth and FOXNEWS reported Chris Christie truth, then What a wonderful world this would be.]

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