Rep. Issa on Benghazi report: "A lie to the American people"

Source CBS News

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Republicans fabricated e-mails in an effort to embarrass the Obama administration. A GOP leak of doctored e-mails (became) the basis of GOP talking points. "That’s a pretty disturbing irony considering the investigation was supposed to be about spin on talking points."

NOW we have a real SCANDAL!! And it's nothing to do with Obama--it's the Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) today asked for an accounting as to how “doctored” e-mails relating to the Obama administration’s deliberations on Benghazi wound up in the hands of the media. The impetus for Schiff’s call is the months-long controversy over the talking points that the Obama administration developed immediately after the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks that resulted in the deaths of four U.S. personnel. Republicans said that they were drafted to downplay the administration’s election-year vulnerability on terrorism.

The talking points zoomed back into the news just weeks ago, when the Weekly Standard and ABC News published stories showing that the document had shrunk through an extensive review process ending at the White House. Those stories were based on leaks from unidentified sources, and they put pressure on the White House to explain itself on Benghazi for the thousandth time.

It did, authoritatively, by releasing 100 pages of e-mails detailing the back-and-forth among the agencies, a dump that beat back the notion that the White House exerted political influence over the talking points from the start. In a statement released today Schiff asked for an accounting as to how “doctored” e-mails relating to the Obama administration’s deliberations on Benghazi wound up in the hands of the media...Schiff was irked that prior to the e-mails’ release, news reports inaccurately portrayed key bits of correspondence, and he specifically cited ABC News in a chat with the Erik Wemple Blog today. On May 10, ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl issued an explosive story chronicling the evolution of the administration’s talking points...Though ABC News and Weekly Standard didn’t give extensive details on their sourcing for the stories, Schiff says it’s not hard to reverse-engineer them: “I don’t know precisely who doctored and leaked the e-mails but plainly it didn’t come from administration, and it wouldn’t have come from Democratic staffers,” Schiff said. Earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney accused “Republicans” of “fabricating” e-mails in an effort to embarrass the Obama administration.

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Heh, so it coes back to bite them in the ass. Republikans falsifying evidence! Just like Cheney's gang made up their own facts on Iraqi WMD's. Overwhelming evidence that those guys will do anything to gain/hold power and money. They are NEVER to be trusted!!!

Can we call it sedition, yet?

I cant believe this is what you have hitched your wagon to webster -

This news is so old - its dropped off the radar on a lot of sites.

Libya security: Rep. Jason Chaffetz admits voting to cut funding for embassy security (VIDEO)

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, said Wednesday he "absolutely" voted for cutting funding for embassy security.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/121011...

In a way you're better off getting american news from BBC or outiside news agencies. They are not in the echo chamber as much.

This is old news - I cant find it on CNN or anywhere. Oct 2012.

In any case, it sounds to me like republicans invited the attack by cutting security and then when the attack did come, they tried to blame the Obama administration just before the election.

Sadly for them It wasn't enough to get their man Mitt "I pay 13% in taxes and talk about it like its something that would impress people cos I have no clue, but its better than using my spray tan personality" RMoney over the finish line.

Cool.
Srinath.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/12/are-budget-cuts-to-blame-for...


&, regardless how many were there ON security detail, the attackers were gonna have them, cuz they were many & they had military weapons./
NOW,

EXPLAIN WHY MILITARY SUPPORT WAS DENIED.

Shut UP, accept the facts, for ONCE in your left twisted lives, accept the FACTS.

Fox News, Drudge, and the right wing hate mongers, sat by and said jack sh!t about the fact that Bush/Cheney's grand incompetence and arrogance, allowed 9/11 to happen. I mean TALK about ignoring a threat!!! They were never forced to answer for that.

The fox news asshats don't give a sh!t about the people who perished in that Libya attack. They only want to make it the "thing" that takes down Obama. Period. They have no conscience about sending thousands of our troops to die and be injured in Iraq over lies... but this is suddenly the worst thing that a President has ever done.


This isn't a f*king sandwich from Jimmy Johns. IF (and this is still a big IF) someone at the embassy called for reinforcements during the assault, it should be noted that the nearest military assets would have been at the U.S.Embassy in Tripoli, which is more than 400 miles away.

Assumption #1: There were troops at the Embassy that could have been redeployed to Benghazi -- bear in mind that riots were breaking out everywhere, and it might not have been safe to weaken the Embassy's security detail at that time.

Assumption #2: There were at least three Black Hawks available to transport troops from Tripoli to the Consulate -- bear in mind that these helicopters would NOT have been on the ground in Tripoli, but likely on a naval vessel in the Gulf of Sidra.

So from the time an S.O.S. came from Benghazi (if it ever did), it would have been hours before reinforcement could have arrived, and the damage would have been done.

Additional Food For Thought: Let's assume that a commander decided to put twenty Marines on three Black Hawks that magically appeared in the Embassy compound. This detail would have been flying blindly into a combat zone with an unknown number of hostiles and (possibly) no place suitable as a Landing Zone. They might have been circling the hot spot with no ability to engage the enemy in helicoptors that were precisely one rocket-propelled grenade from disintegration. Any officer foolish enough to give that order should spend the rest of his military career scrubbing toilets in Greenland.

Dane Allen wrote on 05/20/13 at 13:02:00:



When Bush was asked to find where benghazi was say within 1000 miles, lets just say - mission accomplished. That guy was a true go getter. Just as long as he wasn't asked to point where to go or get.

Cool.
Srinath.

Manufactured scandal.

yep; dead ambassador dragged through the street was manufactured.

Starlifter wrote on 05/20/13 at 18:10:38:


Wow, I don't know where Benghazi came from...oh, right, it's your own title to your own post. What did I spew, exactly? I thing you need to borrow Srinath's dictionary, he isn't using it.

"What did I spew, exactly?"

Bullsh!t