Did The U.S. State Department Coverup Benghazi

Republican Benghazi Report Alleges State Department Coverup -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast

A new report keys in on the space between what the White House knew, and what it chose to publicly say. Eli Lake reports.

Internal emails in the week following the 9-11 anniversary assault on the U.S. facility in Benghazi show the White House and State Department removed references to al Qaeda and the mention of other recent attacks in Benghazi from widely distributed talking points used to explain the incident to the public, according to a new report from five House Republican committee chairmen released Tuesday afternoon.

Citing administration emails provided to the House committees, the 46-page report claims that “to protect the State Department, the Administration deliberately removed references to al-Qaeda-linked groups and previous attacks in Benghazi in the talking points used by Ambassador Rice.”

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My Comment: Kudos to Eli Lake for this analysis. Read it all.