Monday, February 17, 2014

Did The CIA Number Two Man Alter The Benghazi Talking Points?



Did CIA Official Suppress Benghazi Narrative? Accounts Raise New Questions -- FOX News

New information about the intelligence available in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack raises questions about whether the former No. 2 at the CIA downplayed or dismissed reporting from his own people in Libya that it was a coordinated attack and not an out-of-control protest over an anti-Islam video.

Then-Deputy Director Mike Morell, whose own agency lost two employees at Benghazi, former Navy Seals Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, was heavily involved in editing the administration’s internal narrative on what happened – known as the “talking points” – which served as the basis for then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s controversial claims about a protest on the Sunday talk shows after the attack.

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My Comment:
This is just one more reason on why an independent counsel/special prosecutor will need to be appointed to investigate the Benghazi attack and the government's response to it. But in the hyper-political world of Washington today .... coupled with former Sec. of State Clinton's Presidential ambitions .... I doubt that the White House is going to appoint one nor (for their own reasons that I do not understand) the U.S. Congress.

Update: What the News Media Missed in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Benghazi Report -- Center For Security Politcy

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