CNN exclusive: White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks

[geek tragedy]

Source: CNN

CNN has obtained an email sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama, in which the aide discusses the Obama administration reaction to the attack on the U.S. posts in Benghazi, Libya. The actual email differs from how sources inaccurately quoted and paraphrased it in previous accounts to different media organizations.

The significance of the email seems to be that whomever leaked the inaccurate information earlier this month did so in a way that made it appear that the White House – specifically deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes – was more interested in the State Department’s desire to remove mentions of specific terrorist groups and warnings about these groups so as to not bring criticism to the State Department than Rhodes' email actually stated.



Read more: http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/14/cnn-exclusive-white-house-email-contradicts-benghazi-leaks/

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Shocker that emails leaked from Darrel Issa to the wingnutosphere were misleading.

[Control-Z]

1. Do you think FOX News

will be announcing this as soon as possible? I'm sure they will.

[NewJeffCT]

33. If they do announce it

they'll say it's a trick by the Democrats to lure Republicans into attacking Obama and Clinton, and then have Obama pull the football away from them like Lucy does with Charlie Brown. So, it's all the fault of the Democrats for dressing up the memo to make it irresistable to Republicans. (playing off the BIll O'Reilly idea of blaming the rape victirm for how she dressed)

[Control-Z]

36. That made me laugh:

"...it's all the fault of the Democrats for dressing up the memo to make it irresistable to Republicans."

Isn't that the truth? I would not be surprised to hear something as ridiculous out of their super-smart spokespeople!

[Iliyah]

2. I'm sick and tired of the house gopers

I want an investigation on them!

[Pryderi]

3. Sorry. All investigations and impeachments are limited to democrats as targets. n/t

[Fantastic Anarchist]

12. It's because they are "off the table" when Democrats have the opportunity.

I can't even tell who the enemy is anymore.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

23. Keep yer powder dry!

Far more impotent than say, prosecuting torture, dirty bankers, contractor fraud in Iraq, or wall street criminals.

[Boomerproud]

28. Your're typo for "impotent" is correct.

n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

32. what typo?

grrr. sometimes I feel really frustrated.

[Boomerproud]

44. I get it.

n/t

[John2]

43. Somebody needs to

tell Chris Matthews before he has a heart attack!

[Zoonart]

4. ABC got Pwned !!

Oopsie... not so fast, Baggers! Seems ABC got pwned.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/14/1209042/-Oops-ABC-s-Benghazi-scoop-was-based-on-fabricated-email

[Iliyah]

5. Teahards won't believe it.

They are sooooooooo tainted against anything concerning the Democratic party its dumbfounded.

[NewJeffCT]

35. ah, but who fabricated it?

ABC to create a scandal?
Stephen Hays - the first person to publish the email (and RWers from the Weekly Standard and Fox News)?
Somebody else in the GOP?

but, we all know some low level staffer will be blamed.

[SoulSearcher]

46. What did Jon Karl do?

I was watching Jay Carney in today's Press Briefing today and heard
his reference to the edited-email then -but none of the reporters
followed up on it ?!? He had a rough time - and these were reporters
- why didn't they jump on this right there (who did the re-edit). ?
What does Karl do now -does/did he apologize? I have not seen one yet.

[calimary]

51. Ouchez-vous!

I do wonder how one pronounces the word "pwned", though.

[tridim]

6. Sounds like a perfect opportunity to throw the Benghazi BS back at the Republicans.

Since this is proof that it's the Republicans who are lying about it for political gain. Simple stuff.

Then there's the issue of Republicans not giving a damn about the people who actually pulled off the attack.

[MynameisBlarney]

7. This is great news if true...but

It's CNN.

They aren't exactly a top notch news organization.

[geek tragedy]

9. There's a PDF of the actual email. nt

[MynameisBlarney]

10. :D

Sweeet!

TY!

[hue]

40. But Tea/Repukes aren't interested in "top notch ratings"....

[SCVDem]

8. Let's bring back HUAC!

Nothing the GOP/TP have done is in the best interests of America!

[Moostache]

11. Won't matter....damage is already done.

When you throw the IRS and AP kerfuffles into the toxic brew of right wing conspiracies behind EVERYTHING, the message to the general population is simply "well, here THEY go again, ANOTHER corrupt administration..." and that's the end of the road for any meaningful changes.

President Obama wasted much of his first term negotiating with himself and waiting for good faith reciprocity from the recalcitrant right...to no avail.

President Obama will now end up wasting much of his second term deflecting nonsensical "scandals" because the media is bought into the idea that they gave Obama a pass in his first term and they will now bend over backwards to give every false equivalency and trumped up bullshit a "fair treatment".

Game.
Set.
Match.

This is EXACTLY why I do not want Hilliary to run in '16. We need someone with far less built in baggage and scandal fodder for the lazy in the press (stories about Hilliary come with built in leads to previous scandals so much that a hack writer could put out a hit piece in 20 minutes and spend the rest of their week screwing off or hitting the beach) or the vengeful right wing idiots (who, while afraid of losing to Hilliary, also know deep down that if they want to maintain the current gridlock status quo - and why WOULDN'T they? their paymasters and owners are doing VERY well right now - that all they would need to do is nothing different than they have been for the last 2 terms).

Its all bullshit, but in short-attention span 21st century 'murica, that doesn't matter at all...

[SomeGuyInEagan]

15. That's what I was thinking ... news cycle is already lost.

Truth doesn't matter. Headlines do.

If someone hits you in the gut with a big headline (true or not) you have to hit back bigger and badder immediately, within the news cycle. Republicans know this and have been doing it to Democrats for years. Same with language use - Republicans know that if they name something meant to destroy labor protections earned in 1938 as the Family Flexibility Work Bill or whatever they named it, the title sticks in minds, not the actual meaning (same for Contract with America, Clean Skies Act, etc.).

If you are not on offense, you are on defense (came from a recent viewing of West Wing ... been re-watching West Wing this spring - wow, so much of that series is still the crap we are dealing with and it was ten years ago). Anyway, the Dems are constantly on defense and have been since, I dunno, Carter was my first Dem administration and it seemed to be the case then.

And, yeah, I agree with your assessment of a potential Hillary Clinton nomination in '16. We'd never get to the issues, it would just be a series of attack ads based on misinformation and lies from Whitewater, Monica Lewinski, Benghazi, etc. I am kind of liking Biden or Warren, myself.

[juajen]

25. Hillary has been vetted thoroughly and is tougher than nails.

She is far more experienced than Obama, and if Whitewater and Vince pseudo scandal are brought up, most of my conservative friends just laugh. They know that stuff is crap. As for Benghazi, she handled that interrogation with aplomb. Unfortunately, any new candidate, even Elizabeth Warren, will also be hit with curve balls soaked in spit. It is beyond reasonable to finally have a women President, and no one, male or female, is as qualified as Rodham.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

31. I hope you're correct ... my faith in the general population and media is pretty low at this point.

I guess with Clinton, the assault is simply more predictable.

Whoever it is, the attack will be even better funded and uglier than anything we have seen, I fear.

[cui bono]

55. Seeing as how Obama's presidency has turned out, I now wish Hillary had won.

She would've been kicking the GOP's ass from day one. I really wonder how different things would have been. Even if we got the same policies, the GOP would've been bruised over it.

[bushisanidiot]

37. Dude, it's only Tuesday. The news cycle is no where near lost.

Personally, I cannot WAIT for the Sunday morning programs where we get to hear people
talk about how last week's email was bought, lock, stock and barrel by EVERYONE
in the media, but the Obama administration stood their ground. And they were right
to do so.

To me, this whole thing makes the republicans look REALLY bad. They are quick to yell "scandal"
and demand impeachment hearings. It backfired on them when they did it to Clinton in the 90's.
And it
will backfire on them again, now.

[politicaljunkie41910]

22. Hillary wouldn't have the same baggage that Obama has. For starters she isn't black.

Sure she is married to Bill Clinton who was impeached and may have been a serial adulterer, but that is all old news in an era where the GOP has demonstrated their willingness to overlook Gingrich's transgressions and Mark Sanford hiking the Appalachian Trail.

What President Obama needs to do is to call Bullshit, Bullshit and call the media out for their role in supporting the Bullshit. Every two bit 'journalist' and blogger wants to be the next Woodward and Bernstein, in spite of the fact that there is no evidence, and that there is no there, there, in all of these manufactured crisis, which are not rooted in any search for the truth, but intended to inflict maximum damage simply by making the allegation. If President Obama allows it to continue, he deserves the taint which will forever follow him. What he's not entitled to is to take the party down with him, simply because he's not willing to bloody his enemy's nose.

[hue]

41. I'm sure Tea/Repukes esp. 1%'ers are more afraid of Hillary in 2016 than anything else!!

[timdog44]

13. It seems that

there is not much difference between CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS. They all lie to make a story, instead of reporting the story. Is there such a thing as journalism school and journalism degrees anymore. The important thing is to get on the air with the most bullshit before anyone else can. No ethics, no morals, no sense of journalism. I took a journalism course in high school. Who, what, when, where and how were the questions to ask and get "truthful" answers to. All these guys miss about 6 inches. That is the standard distance from on ear to the other ear.

[riqster]

26. It's not news anymore

It's infotainment.

[John2]

45. So why should people

defend them? I think they need to be taught a lesson. They are crying because the DOJ hit back. Intimidation, what do the Press think they do?

[timdog44]

48. Exactly.

In their present form they need intimidated. Shills for the wealthy, presenting not news but silly entertainment and disgusting sports information.

[bushisanidiot]

14. Benghazi-gate, IRS-gate, APnews-gate. *yawn*

Republicans are once again showing their asses for all to see.
they are quick to blame the president of the united states for
everything while they try their hardest to tank the economy.
It's non-stop investigations in hopes of finding a smoking gun.

I hope the dems start pointing out how much tax payer money is
being wasted on witch hunt conspiracy theory "investigations".
I hope they also point out that Nancy Pelosi NEVER insisted on
investigating the AWOL Bush admin for their crimes re: Iraq,
nor any of the US embassy bombings under Bush's watch.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Now watch as the media flips the facts to claim Issa was right all along....

Remember, the media reports Republicans as Champions of Justice and Democrats as always being in trouble.

[Blue_Tires]

39. +1

[Ash_F]

17. This is getting tiresome

These people still don't know or give a crap about Libya. Hope it backfires politically.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

18. Too bad this is from CNN. Post any other news outlet link if possible.

[Doctor_J]

19. Arrest the aide for slander and treason

(s)he was attempting to unseat the sitting president by lying.

[KingFlorez]

20. This will be buried

This revelation will be more like a small print retraction.

[adieu]

21. So the GOP breitbarted the emails?

How shoc... nurm, utterly expected.

[Ganja Ninja]

24. exactly

They are only interested in keeping Benghazi in the news. Even with being found out they still achieve that. Their hard core followers will swallow anything and this is just one more "controversy".

[DearAbby]

27. SWIFTBOATGHAZI

only one purpose for this. They must really be scared of Hillary Clinton to start swiftboating her before she offically announce her intention of running. To Actively smear her, with Television ads and hearings.

[global1]

29. When You Think About It - If Hillary Wins In 2016 It Might Just Very Well Be The End Of.....

the Repug Party. I think they know that their Party is on the demise. When we hear talk about the good possibility of turning Texas blue - they got to be running scared. I guess I'm not surprised that they'll be throwing anything and everything they have at Obama, Hillary and the Dems in general over the next couple of years. The Repugs need to discredit them if they have a prayer of a chance of ever winning back the WH. Hillary also has the clout to bring in a lot of new Dem Senators and House Reps.

[NewJeffCT]

38. well, if you see the current polling

they have Hillary winning in Texas, and even beating Marco Rubio in Florida, and neck & neck with Rand Paul in Kentucky. They should be scared. If Hillary wins in a Nixon/McGovern, Reagan/Mondal or LBJ/Goldwater type landslide, it would likely tip the House to Democrats as well in the tidal wave.

[Boomerproud]

30. I just went to CNN webpage and there's nothing about it there.

n/t

[Uncle Joe]

34. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, geek tragedy.

[hue]

42. Tea/Repukes want to unrail the Dems chances for 2016...they fear Hillary & other possible candidates

[another_liberal]

47. Not a bit surprising.

So, it turns out the whole thing has been fabricated out of thin air. This scandal did smell funny from day one.

[Sand Wind]

49. There should be 100 tweeds and 100 Facebook republish

If you dont trust the MSM to do the, job, how Is It that so few people work to make that story to trend the social media ?

Just 2 retweet and just 4 Facebook citations for now, you can do better. Dont forget the republican are using this story to raise money and prepare the ground for the next election.

Here a list of the 20 political journalists on tweeter.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/18/the-top-20-political-journalists-on-twitter/

[Skittles]

50. I am shocked I tell you; SHOCKED!!!

LOL

[Cha]

52. thanks geek

[4bucksagallon]

53. Is Breitbart still with us? I want to know who did the editing.

Please someone must know, the info was released, who released it and WHERE did they get it from?? To me that should be the focus of any investigation.

[They_Live]

54. If he doesn't exsist

he would need to be recreated. There's a massive orchestration of Rovian dirty tricks going on now, like dominoes. Cheney and Rumsfeld, heck even W have been showing up in the media again. The lie-bury opening was the springboard for the ghoul committee to reappear.