Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference -- ABC News
When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story.
ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.
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My Comment: Bottom line .... the final draft of the "Benghazi talking points" was written by the State Department .... not the intelligence community as first claimed. Hmmm .... it also looks like someone has leaked some Benghazi emails to ABC News that only yesterday the Republicans were demanding that they should be released. On a side note .... now I understand why the CIA was upset when this story was started to be spun by the State Department and the White House in September of last year.
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