BREAKING: White House Releases 100 Pages of Emails and Notes on Benghazi Attacks

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

@AP: BREAKING: White House releases 100 pages of emails and notes on Benghazi attacks.

http://reuters.tumblr.com/post/50520232277/white-house-releases-over-100-pages-of-emails-about

By Jake Tapper, CNN Chief Washington Correspondent

The White House released more than 100 pages of e-mails on Wednesday in a bid to quell critics who say President Barack Obama and his aides played politics with national security following the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

The exchanges detailing discussions between top Obama administration officials from multiple agencies suggest the CIA took the lead in developing talking points to describe the attack last September 11 that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

Those talking points, which were requested by members of the House Intelligence Committee, were originally drafted by the CIA. The lawmakers had requested unclassified information they could use in media interviews. Following the original drafting of talking points, CIA analysts made a handful of significant changes, according to administration sources.

In the CIA’s original set of talking points, the first bullet point included a reference that the Benghazi attack was “spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the U.S. consulate and subsequently its annex.”

Read more: http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/15/white-house-releases-100-pages-of-benghazi-e-mails

[Tx4obama]

1. A link to the PDF file with the documents, below

Here: http://live.reuters.com/Event/Politics/76817643

[Iliyah]

2. This was sent to congress

where a goper staffer adjusted to make the WH look bad.

[Tx4obama]

3. And here's a link with an ARTICLE

http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/15/white-house-releases-100-pages-of-benghazi-e-mails/?on.cnn=4

[obama2terms]

4. Benghazi is becoming a political football

If you didn't know what happened you would think this was similar to Watergate! Instead of it being about the horrible tragedy that took place, it's become a way for various politicians to make other politicians look bad. Instead of whining about it constantly, the people that are pretending to care so much about it need to quit playing the blame game and actually get to the bottom of what REALLY happened. Making this into something that it's not doesn't help anyone, and it surely doesn't help the victims of this.

[Skittles]

7. meanwhile, repukes start wars based on lies and get away with it

[pmorlan1]

5. Magicians at work

Don't look at the AP scandal over here. Watch my assistant show you some documents over here that are about a non-serious story.

[Harmony Blue]

6. Yeah this is bad timing on the WH

it makes them look guilty. Giving in to Republican pressure is a big mistake.

[SkyDaddy7]

8. WTF?!?!

These emails show that what the GOP is saying is a LIE!!

Obama being weak?? LOL!!

[Bodhi BloodWave]

9. don'tcha know, everything Obama does is wrong *nods sagely* least that seems to be how some think nt

[Arkana]

10. I think they did it so that ABC would look even dumber for editing those emails.

Yeah, it's a non-scandal, and the only thing this does is make it even more of a non-scandal. Now Republicans don't have the "HE'S STONEWALLING!" excuse anymore, and everyone will go "wait, didn't that Issa guy literally say his problem was that Obama said 'act of terror' instead of 'terrorist attack'? What the shit is up with that?"