Republicans OUTED As The SOURCE Of ABC’s DELIBERATELY EDITED Benghazi Emails

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Major Garrett of CBS outed Republicans as the source behind the edited Benghazi emails that ABC News used to smear the Obama administration.

CBS summed it up:

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.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57584947/wh-benghazi-emails-have-different-quotes-than-earlier-reported/

Sure, this is hardly a surprise, but there is a vast difference between suspecting something and having it established as fact. It’s worth noting, because it matters that Republicans were the lying leak. The GOP had the original emails, as reported by Mother Jones on Monday. The Republican interim report included the correct version of the emails:

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.”

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/boehner-benghazi-emails

(*Brendan Buck is John Boehner’s press secretary)


This means that Republicans altered the emails on purpose in order to fit their narrative.



Jason Easley pointed out for Politicus yesterday that Obama releasing the emails killed the GOP scandal. Yes, it sure did, because the emails never said what Republicans claimed they did. It may have opened a much more disturbing Republican scandal, though, since deliberately lying to the press in order to sell propaganda is a violation of the very principles of democracy.

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http://www.politicususa.com/republicans-edited-abc-benghazi-emails.html

[Blue Owl]

1. cue the evil liberal media crickets

n/t

[spanone]

2. k&r..

[napkinz]

3. still waiting for BREAKING NEWS and all-day coverage on all the news networks

and for calls that jail terms await those involved


chirp, chirp, chirp

[rhett o rick]

4. Which Republicans? nm

[uponit7771]

5. This should NO DOUBT get to the MSNBC staff for this weekend, GOPers altered evidence in an...

...official investigation..

[napkinz]

6. Let's see if Tweety is OUTRAGED tonight

And let's see if "Meet The Press" and "Face The Nation" cover it Sunday.

[MADem]

7. Gotta love it.

Major Garrett didn't throw the GOP under the bus, he drop kicked 'em and pointed the fickle finger of fate right at 'em, too.

[KevTucky]

8. Shouldn't the editing be investigated?

Just asking.

[sulphurdunn]

17. A Congressional hearing at least.

[meow2u3]

23. A Senate hearing might bring out the whole truth to the public

It also might out Issa as the document forger.

[sulphurdunn]

24. If we are actually involved

in a global war on terror, might not threats to impeach the President as Commander in Chief for the conduct of that war be considered an act of treason? Didn't the Republicans threaten as much during the reign of Bush the Lesser?

[SCVDem]

9. Big Ed will handle this!

I hope people will watch.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. It's fraud! It's fraud! It's fraud! Already.

[napkinz]

11. one hour to Martin Bashir

Can't wait for his presentation of this story ... make that SCANDAL!

[kelliekat44]

12. The President has always said the the GOP had the e-mails before and questioned why this was being

brought up now. Now we know why...the "doctored" e-mails are the ones being used now and not the original, official ones.
This stuff is going to blow back and backfire on the GOP. So will the IRS stuff because the record will show that mostly if not "only" leftist organizations were actually denied status as tax exempt. let the Impeachment begin...remember the past. And stop comparing all this to the Nixon era... Nixon was never impeached. Only Clinton was and we all know how that turned out.

[Scurrilous]

13. K & R

[formercia]

14. Treason in War Time.

We do have a permanent War going on, don't we?

[thesquanderer]

15. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you, (n/t)

[AAO]

16. I'm quite flabbergasted myself! Who would have ever imagined?

[napkinz]

18. kick

nt

[napkinz]

19. why is this fellow still working for ABC??????

[napkinz]

20. a WATERgate-style investigation gone COLD!

call it Ice-A-Gate!

[meow2u3]

21. I want to see some indictments of repuke Congresscritters

Especially those who falsified the emails in question. Last I checked, obstruction of justice, especially when it involves terrorism investigations, is a serious felony, and I want to see the real criminals, i.e., the reTHUGS, behind bars.

[IDemo]

22. "a violation of the very principles of democracy."

"I'm good with that." - Repubs everywhere