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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (715888)	5/17/2013 6:59:25 AM
From: Alighieri	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583374

Doesn't this smell fishy to you, that so many people can make so many changes over so many days? No! Dude this is so typical of organizations...I have written so many press releases...I can't tell you how many people get to read and edit them...this is entirely typical. After all, it was Obama and Hillary who said things that turned out not to be true. Such as? So what is Obama going to do about it so that such embarrassments don't happen again? If the answer is "not much," then it is pretty clear that the buck isn't stopping with Obama at all, and that i-node is correct in pointing it out. How do either of you know? This is a manufactured crisis and the worse of american politics...one party amplifying and politicizing a tragedy to gain political advantage....that's all it is. It's distasteful and it disgusts me frankly. Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (715888)	5/17/2013 7:21:15 AM
From: Alighieri	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583374

WH Benghazi emails have different quotes (CBS News) WASHINGTON -- The Benghazi attack is a political controversy. Republicans claim the administration watered down the facts in talking points given to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for television appearances while Obama was running for re-election. Republicans on Capitol Hill claimed they found proof in White House emails that they leaked to reporters last week. It turns out some of the quotes were wrong. Republicans have charged that the State Department under Hillary Clinton was trying to protect itself from criticism. The White House released the real emails late Wednesday. Here's what we found when we compared them to the quotes that had been provided by Republicans. One email was written by deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes. On Friday, Republicans leaked what they said was a quote from Rhodes: "We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don't want to undermine the FBI investigation." But it turns out that in the actual email, Rhodes did not mention the State Department. It read: "We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation." Republicans also provided what they said was a quote from an email written by State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland. The Republican version quotes Nuland discussing, "The penultimate point is a paragraph talking about all the previous warnings provided by the Agency (CIA) about al-Qaeda's presence and activities of al-Qaeda." The actual email from Nuland says: "The penultimate point could be abused by members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings." The CIA agreed with the concerns raised by the State Department and revised the talking points to make them less specific than the CIA's original version, eliminating references to al Qaeda and affiliates and earlier security warnings. There is no evidence that the White House orchestrated the changes.