Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report Claims

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Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report Claims

The Huffington Post | By Chris Gentilviso Posted: 05/16/2013 9:36 pm EDT

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One day afterThe White House released100 pages of Benghazi emails, a report has surfaced alleging that Republicans released a set with altered text.

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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.
The GOP version of Rhodes' comment, according to CBS News: "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."
The White House email: "We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation."
The GOP version of Nuland's comment, according to CBS News: 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 White House email: "The penultimate point could be abused by members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings."
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.

In that April interim report on Benghazi (which Buck noted), the House Republicans cited these emails (in footnotes 56 and 57) to note an important point: "State Department emails reveal senior officials had 'serious concerns' about the talking points, because Members of Congress might attack the State Department for 'not paying attention to Agency warnings' about the growing threat in Benghazi."​

Despite the White House's Wednesday move to release emails, Republicans continued to call for more information on Thursday.
"While these hundred are good and they shed light on what happened, we have nearly 25,000 that they haven't released," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told Fox News on Thursday.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/republicans-benghazi-emails_n_3289428.html

 

Really? The emails that say the Democrats did what Carney has lied about for 6 month were altered. He said;
“The CIA drafted these talking points and redrafted these talking points. The fact that there are inputs is always the case in a process like this, but the only edits made by anyone here at the White House were stylistic and nonsubstantive. They corrected the description of the building or the facility in Benghazi from consulate to diplomatic facility and the like. And ultimately, this all has been discussed and reviewed and provided in enormous levels of detail by the administration to Congressional investigators, and the attempt to politicize the talking points, again, is part of an effort to, you know, chase after what isn’t the substance here.” Therefore, they must have been lies to begin with.

 

My question is why did Republicans alter emails? Hum? Maybe they thought nobody would find out? Idiots! And this is the Right's leadership at work. Proof positive that they have nothing.

 

It does seem like if the emails were sufficiently damning in their original form there would be no reason to Breitbart them.

 

In what way are they damning? I think that they are definitely managing the message they are putting out there but name any message that isn't managed that comes from any political party. It's all managed, massaged, manipulated but that doesn't mean everything is a scandal. If anything, the GOP massaged reality to fit their agenda to paint the administration as dishonest.

 

http://www.theonion.com/articles/ob...medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_dispatch

 

Exactly.

 

It seems to me that the Republicans are lying to the American people in order to win an election. Wait a minute, isn't that what they are accusing Obama of?

 

One thing is certain, and that is that if the republicans are explaining how the Democrats are doing this illegally, or that illegally, you can be be assured that the republicans would know, and have engaged in that very illegal activity themselves for some time.