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Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that video was to blame – The Lead with Jake Tapper - CNN.com Blogs

By Jake Tapper, CNN Chief Washington Correspondent

New documents obtained by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch reinforce that the White House strongly argued that an anti-Muslim video was the reason for the deadly 2012 terror attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi.

This was done even though intelligence and diplomatic sources on the ground were more convinced the attacks that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in eastern Libya were carried out by terrorists and not the spontaneous work of an angry mob.

The new documents can be seen here.

The documents were not included in the initial set of e-mails the White House released last May which show the interagency debate over talking points to go to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

These newly released documents include “TOPLINE POINTS” in question and answer form, prepared by the national security staff, apparently part of the briefing for Susan Rice, then the U.N. ambassador, in preparation for her appearance on Sunday interview shows.

During the debate over the talking points for Capitol Hill from 2013, Republicans argued that the administration removed specific terror references and stuck to an explanation – later proved untrue – that the attack was result of a spontaneous demonstration over an anti-Muslim film that was produced in the United States. There had been such a demonstration in Cairo.

Damn, this just won't go away will it?
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

Nothing new here, for us who are better informed than others we knew with in days if not with in 24 hours that it was a terrorist attack and had nothing to do with a Youtube video. That the Obama White House was involved in a cover up to hide the incompetencies of Obama and those of his administration to get him through November so he could be given a second chance and reelected.

BTW: Why did Richard Nixon resign the Presidency in 1974 ? America sure has lowered the standards for POTUS since then. Today even a corrupt, incompetent community organiser can occupy the White House.
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

BTW: Why did Richard Nixon resign the Presidency in 1974 ?
As you look through your translucent glasses, you won't be happy until Obama is impeached.
America sure has lowered the standards for POTUS since then.
Especially in 1980 with the beginning of the total accumulated debt and the oligarchy created by tax cuts for the rich and deregulation.
Today even a corrupt, incompetent community organiser can occupy the White House.
Much to your ever-lasting chagrin .
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

Nothing new here, for us who are better informed than others we knew with in days if not with in 24 hours that it was a terrorist attack and had nothing to do with a Youtube video. That the Obama White House was involved in a cover up to hide the incompetencies of Obama and those of his administration to get him through November so he could be given a second chance and reelected.

BTW: Why did Richard Nixon resign the Presidency in 1974 ? America sure has lowered the standards for POTUS since then. Today even a corrupt, incompetent community organiser can occupy the White House.
He resigned because someone told him that if he were impeached by the House, there was likely enough votes in the Senate (67) to remove him from office.
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

That's either the most ironic or most trollish statement I've ever read.

The whole thing baffles me.
If the WH thought that a video was the cause and they were wrong.....so what?
Four Americans were killed in a war zone.
Security in Benghazi wasn't sufficient to fend off this attack.
Our security has been improved since the attack, hopefully.
Doubtful that the Prez's margin of victory was affected at all.:shrug:
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

The whole thing baffles me.
If the WH thought that a video was the cause and they were wrong.....so what?
Four Americans were killed in a war zone.
Security in Benghazi wasn't sufficient to fend off this attack.
Our security has been improved since the attack, hopefully.
Doubtful that the Prez's margin of victory was affected at all.:shrug:

It was a major theme of the BHO reelection campaign that Al Qaeda was on the run and the terror threat was receding. It's not so much that the WH believed a video was the cause. It's that the WH was determined to sell that story to protect their campaign theme. The question is whether you buy that their "belief" was in good faith. I do not.:peace
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

What complete, blithering hogwash. MM is looking at a smoking gun and calling it an incense candle.:peace
Nope, Media Matters dots their "I"s and cross their "T"s
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

Nope, Media Matters dots their "I"s" and cross their "T"s

:lamoThey're a fully compromised propaganda outlet.:lamo
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

Nope, Media Matters dots their "I"s and cross their "T"s

So the memo from the WH that was a PREP CALL for Susan Rice which outlines her talking points for her numerous TV appearances that Sunday is just an accident. That she repeated all of the points stated in the memo FROM THE WHITE HOUSE is really coincidental. Damn. You haven't read it, have you? You just ran to MM and took their crap laced pablum for the truth rather than look at the freaking document yourself?
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

He resigned because someone told him that if he were impeached by the House, there was likely enough votes in the Senate (67) to remove him from office.

Why would the Democrats want to impeach Nixon ???

All Nixon did was talk about using the IRS against his political enemies. Unlike Obama, Nixon never used the IRS, he just mentioned about using the IRS.
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

So the memo from the WH that was a PREP CALL for Susan Rice which outlines her talking points for her numerous TV appearances that Sunday is just an accident. That she repeated all of the points stated in the memo FROM THE WHITE HOUSE is really coincidental. Damn. You haven't read it, have you? You just ran to MM and took their crap laced pablum for the truth rather than look at the freaking document yourself?
Well the information Susan Rice said on those TV shows was the best information we had at the time. And yes, there was a video in the story even today. Not in Benghazi, but in Tripoli. "peace
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

It was a major theme of the BHO reelection campaign that Al Qaeda was on the run and the terror threat was receding. It's not so much that the WH believed a video was the cause. It's that the WH was determined to sell that story to protect their campaign theme.

I think the killing of Osama probably gave the admin. a pretty good anti-Al Qaeda campaign moment.

The question is whether you buy that their "belief" was in good faith. I do not.:peace

Fair enough.
I don't presume to know if their "belief" was real or imagined.
It is my belief that the Benghazi debacle didn't influence voters one way or the other.
Terrorists and terrorism exist, and we're going to get hit by the bastards occasionally.
The vast majority of voters know this and don't expect any Prez to be infallible.
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

It was a major theme of the BHO reelection campaign that Al Qaeda was on the run and the terror threat was receding. It's not so much that the WH believed a video was the cause. It's that the WH was determined to sell that story to protect their campaign theme. The question is whether you buy that their "belief" was in good faith. I do not.

Hmmm I guess people can remember things differently- I recall major themes of the GOP war on women, the CON defense of marriage, and snide remarks about 47% of the nation.

I understand the CON whine about defining 'on the run', I'd say they are on the run, and like any group of cockroaches flushed out some can find a new haven to start anew and 'on the run' doesn't mean dead and gone. Receding doesn't mean a rogue wave or two can't still get your feet wet, but it does mean the tide is going out. Doesn't mean an occasional home grown nut job, or a renegade pilot won't commit an act of terror, but hopefully it means if an FBI field report hits a desk on suspicious activities, that report sees timely action instead of a yawn.

I believe the 'story' was to protect a botched CIA OP. The attack wasn't on the Embassy but a CIA arsenal masquerading as a Consulate far from the capital. I have ZERO understanding what the Ambassador was doing there and without any real escort detail... bad timing and thought process there. But the attack was on the CIA, it's operation that now can be seen as poorly managed, and a cache of weapons- not an embassy.

Kinda like crooks seeing a poorly guarded bank stuffed full of money and the security detail are the much hated Pinkertons...
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

Well the information Susan Rice said on those TV shows was the best information we had at the time. And yes, there was a video in the story even today. Not in Benghazi, but in Tripoli. "peace

That's absolutely and completely untrue. There was no demonstration in Benghazi - just a terrorist attack, and the WH, the CIA, State, and Pentagon knew it at the time it occurred, and they knew the nature of it as well. Now we know who tried to portray it as something other than what it clearly was. No amount of spinning will change the words recorded on those pages now. It was a deliberate cover up of a foreign policy failure less than a month before the presidential election. Whether or not it would have changed the outcome of the election is not the issue at all.
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

Well the information Susan Rice said on those TV shows was the best information we had at the time. And yes, there was a video in the story even today. Not in Benghazi, but in Tripoli. "peace

No, it was the best information they claimed to have at the time. Later proven to be a false claim. Besides, didn't you guys claim the President Obama called it an act of terror in the Rose Garden speech?
 
Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid

That's absolutely and completely untrue. There was no demonstration in Benghazi - just a terrorist attack, and the WH, the CIA, State, and Pentagon knew it at the time it occurred, and they knew the nature of it as well. Now we know who tried to portray it as something other than what it clearly was. No amount of spinning will change the words recorded on those pages now. It was a deliberate cover up of a foreign policy failure less than a month before the presidential election. Whether or not it would have changed the outcome of the election is not the issue at all.

A side-by-side view of the redacted and unredacted versions would be interesting.
 
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