Emails Reveal A Flurry Of Changes To Benghazi Talking Points -- CBS
As House Republicans piece together the events in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, that led to the death of four Americans, the focus has fallen on the talking points the Obama administration used to describe the attack in the days following.
The talking points were revised numerous times before United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice used them on political talk shows on Sept. 16. While the White House says the changes were merely stylistic, the changes suggest administration officials were interested in sparing the State Department from political criticism in the wake of the attack.
CBS News has learned there was a flurry of approximately 100 interagency government emails on Sept. 14 and Sept. 15 regarding the content of the talking points to be released to members of Congress regarding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others in Benghazi. The email list included officials from the White House, State Department, CIA, FBI and others reviewing the talking points.
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My Comment: Sharyl Attkisson does an excellent job of dissecting the emails that have been leaked to the media. Read it all. On a side note .... White House press spokesperson Jay Carney's claim (in the above video) that only one change was made to the Benghazi talking points are .... to put it bluntly .... incorrect.
This only adds more fuel to the argument that we need a bipartisan select committee to investigate Benghazi.
Update: Mark Steyn's commentary on this issue is a must read.
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