badgenome said:
Well, leaving the talking points aside for a moment, Obama himself was briefed on al-Qaeda involvement after the attack yet continued to flog that YouTube video for weeks. So even if there was a pure motive for editing the talking points in such a way (unlikely), there is no excuse for that. |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/benghazi-emails-released-white-house
Excerpt:
The series of email exchanges reveal that the vital phrase "with ties to al-Qaida" was later excised.
The White House said this was done at the request of the CIA and not the White House and that the emails support this, showing that a CIA analyst said there was no intelligence at that point to support the assertion of al-Qaida involvement.
In an email from the CIA three days after the attack, it noted the reference to al-Qaida, suggesting it was complicit in the deaths of the four Americans, and a CIA analyst says: "Do we know this?"
There's the CIA doubt again.
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