” … the White House is turning four dead Americans into a political football.”
The best time to kick a hero is when he’s down. Just ask the Obama administration.
Now that former CIA director David Petraeus has testified that his agency’s Benghazi memo referred to the event as a “terrorist attack” engaged by an “al-Qaida affiliated group,” the White House feels it incumbent to call him a liar, albeit in a nice way.
It’s been reported for two days that security and intelligence leaders have testified that they knew from the get-go that Benghazi was a planned assault and had nothing to do with an alleged demonstration that got out of hand. Petraeus’ report, according to his testimony before the House and Senate Intelligence committees, reiterates this, and he said that the wording was changed after it left his office.
According to Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, “Nobody knows where it was changed. It was nobody in the intelligence community, so it goes to the Justice Department, State Department, White House — somewhere along the line.”
The White House is now denying they did any substantive editing of the CIA talking points memo. According to the Washington Examiner:
White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes put the blame back on the Central Intelligence Agency when asked about former CIA director David Petraeus’ claim that UN Ambassador Susan Rice’s talking points were edited to downplay al Qaida’s role in the Benghazi terrorist attack.
Rhodes told reporters “the only edit that was made by the White House and also by the State Department was to change the word ‘consulate’ to the word ‘diplomatic facility,’ since the facility in Benghazi was not formally a consulate. Other than that we were guided by the points that were provided by the intelligence community.”
In other words, they threw it back to the CIA, and the White House is turning four dead Americans into a political football.
Maybe the buck doesn’t stop at the Oval Office after all.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
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What else would you expect from a man who in his own words said if it came down ti The U.S. or Islam he would choose Islam. I guess his response to the attack confirms his words.
I didn’t realize Obama had said that. He sure has fooled most of the American people!
It seems if they take the time to change the name of the facility it would be easy enough for them to change the talking points. WHO CHANGED THE NAME OF THE FACILITY? Also, I think Obama was looking for anyone to throw under the bus. I watched the video when Obama and Hilary came out to tell what happened on September 12 and you see her backing away from him when he starts to talk and she has the look on her face as if to say “I can’t believe you are going to LIE to America like this”. If only Hilary would step up like Petraeus has. But she is too scared of the Democratic party. (or her life?). Maybe that is why she is waiting until December to testify, then it won’t matter her term is almost up. He’ll have Susan Rice in there. I believe he tried to get Petraeus to lie too like Susan and Hilary did and he said NO. they threatened him with exposure and he called their bluff and exposed himself SO HE COULD TELL THE TRUTH WITHOUT RECIPERCATION. But it still comes down to who told the Benghazi people to STAND DOWN. I’ll bet it was Obama because he did not want to bother with it because he was going to Las Vegas the next day to campaign. His priorities are messed up! ( and I also think there MEGA voter fraud). There is just no way it could have been a landslide like that when all the polls showed the race as BEING VER CLOSE!
It is scary to know that HE can lie and lie and still get away with it. Not GOD; OBAMA! And a lot of Americans don’t give a crap about anything or anybody but themselves….gimmie gimmie gimmie! You want it? You’ll get it at the expense of all of us in America. Including yourselves!!
When Peter King came out of the latest briefing he said that even though Petraeus was now saying he said all along it was a terrorist attack that is not how he (Peter King) heard it at the first meeting. (It’s on video) Obviously Gen. Petraeus was not clear in his first meeting if many different people had different interpretations. The CIA had bad intelligence which helped create the environment for four people to be killed. Why don’t these agencies put their energies into finding the terrorists who killed the 4 instead of this useless political posturing.