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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
Thu May 16, 2013, 10:47 PM May 2013

Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report finds:

One day after The White House released 100 pages of Benghazi emails, a report has surfaced alleging that Republicans released a set with altered text.

CBS News reported Thursday that leaked versions sent out by the GOP last Friday had visible differences than Wednesday's official batch. Two correspondences that were singled out in the report came from National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes and State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

-snip-

The news parallels a Tuesday CNN report which initially introduced the contradiction between what was revealed in a White House Benghazi email version, versus what was reported in media outlets. On Monday, Mother Jones noted that the Republicans' interim report included the correct version of the emails, signaling that more malice and less incompetence may have been at play with the alleged alterations.

The rest: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/republicans-benghazi-emails_n_3289428.html
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Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report finds: (Original Post) JaneyVee May 2013 OP
Will there be an investigation? You know Issa will be itching to get to the bottom of this. Tarheel_Dem May 2013 #1
HA! zerosumgame0005 May 2013 #2
You mean Darrell Issa, that paragon of virtue and moral rectitude won't wanna get..... Tarheel_Dem May 2013 #3
Issa's Going To Be Doing His Emily Litella (Gilda Radner) Impression ChoppinBroccoli May 2013 #5
Will the liberal media allow him to get away with that? Gee, I hope nadin weighs in. Tarheel_Dem May 2013 #11
More ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2013 #16
Who Altered The Emails?! Cha May 2013 #4
Must. Launch. Investigation. JaneyVee May 2013 #6
Some low level aid or intern will get the blame. progressoid May 2013 #18
Cherry-picking and ginning up the evidence AGAIN!! magellan May 2013 #7
Gawd, I read, ":ruining our country", not ":running our country". Guess it's what my brain expects Mnemosyne May 2013 #10
I know, I wanted to write "running our country INTO THE GROUND" magellan May 2013 #13
"They've arguably got the most important jobs: running our country." Tarheel_Dem May 2013 #12
I think if they were going to remember it they would have long ago magellan May 2013 #14
I think Boehner was right.... C_U_L8R May 2013 #8
Impeach Boehner, McCain, McConnell, Graham . . . bigtree May 2013 #9
LOL, like Boner said "someone needs to go to jail! Iliyah May 2013 #15
So CBS just took what the Repubs were saying at face value? mindwalker_i May 2013 #17

Tarheel_Dem

(31,232 posts)
3. You mean Darrell Issa, that paragon of virtue and moral rectitude won't wanna get.....
Thu May 16, 2013, 11:07 PM
May 2013

ALL the facts out? Surely, he won't selectively choose what the public gets to hear. Right?

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
16. More ...
Fri May 17, 2013, 12:28 AM
May 2013

What does that make 4 faked/altered leaked leads, to 4 different media outlets, in less than 2 week?

Will the media finally say ... out loud ... to anyone that can read, watch or listen ... "F-U, gop. I'm done being your trick. We're not running with nothing you give us until we have checked and triple checked every detail ... and if you EVERY leak ANYTHING that does not 100% check out, we're gonna publish the name, date and time of the leak, with photos and links to the audio, on the front page, above the fold."

Wow, that was some fantasy ... I think I need a cigarette and a pillow.

Cha

(297,141 posts)
4. Who Altered The Emails?!
Thu May 16, 2013, 11:13 PM
May 2013

I heard a reporter.. actually it was Kelly McDonald who was reported saying.. all she heard in South Carolina around the election was "What About Benghazi!".

Now it's "Who Altered The Emails?"

thanks Janey

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
6. Must. Launch. Investigation.
Thu May 16, 2013, 11:17 PM
May 2013

But I wouldn't hold my breath. Meanwhile, the media jumped on the speculative band-wagon so hyper-actively that turning this news story around and now having to inform the public of the truth will be like turning a tanker ship 180 in a stormy sea. Our media is a joke. It's one big TMZ/National Enquirer. Facts & evidence take a back seat to speculation, sensationalism, & ratings-mongering.

magellan

(13,257 posts)
7. Cherry-picking and ginning up the evidence AGAIN!!
Thu May 16, 2013, 11:18 PM
May 2013

When will the GOP be held to account for their incredibly damaging non-stop lies and misrepresentations? Ever? These people are in our fucking government. They've arguably got the most important jobs: running our country.

They. Are. Pissing. On. Us. All.

And yet even when we have the chance to pull them up by the short and curlies, we give them a pass.

AND THEY DO IT MORE.

I'm fucking tired of having a government run by a bunch of immature thugs whose behavior is more suited to a prison block.

Mnemosyne

(21,363 posts)
10. Gawd, I read, ":ruining our country", not ":running our country". Guess it's what my brain expects
Thu May 16, 2013, 11:39 PM
May 2013

from them anymore.

I agree, they are pissing on us every chance they get.

Enough already...

magellan

(13,257 posts)
13. I know, I wanted to write "running our country INTO THE GROUND"
Thu May 16, 2013, 11:50 PM
May 2013

...but that would have weakened my point. We all know that's what they've been doing for decades; it's just not what they SHOULD be doing.

Tarheel_Dem

(31,232 posts)
12. "They've arguably got the most important jobs: running our country."
Thu May 16, 2013, 11:45 PM
May 2013

I wish they could all remember this one important point. Thank you.

magellan

(13,257 posts)
14. I think if they were going to remember it they would have long ago
Thu May 16, 2013, 11:58 PM
May 2013

They're like a dog on one of those auto-wind leashes. They'll keep going till the line runs out. That's my only hope at this point: that they finally choke themselves. Because it doesn't seem anyone is willing to bring them to heel.

bigtree

(85,986 posts)
9. Impeach Boehner, McCain, McConnell, Graham . . .
Thu May 16, 2013, 11:25 PM
May 2013

. . . we need to clean House and appoint a special prosecutor to probe republican interference in the Benghazi investigation.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
15. LOL, like Boner said "someone needs to go to jail!
Fri May 17, 2013, 12:01 AM
May 2013

In my opinion, what the GOPers did by tampering with the e-mails and by changing important wording for the main purpose to force a threat of impeachment is criminal and needs to be investigated to the fullest. Its fraud done by members of the United States government, tax payers pay their salaries, we the people have the right to find out who did it and we already know why but that also needs to be on a legal document. I say get a special prosecutor!

mindwalker_i

(4,407 posts)
17. So CBS just took what the Repubs were saying at face value?
Fri May 17, 2013, 12:30 AM
May 2013

I guess it's not their job to be fact checkers, huh?

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